Thread: What are you working on?

Just restored one of my first razors. Blade was broken. Unpinned, used stop pin location and re pinned. Working on honing it and try to shave. Anybody ever used a razor this short to shave with?

Originally Posted by Substance

Some after pics
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That must have been a fun job, seeing such good results us always nice! You and engine 46 just made these razors look so cool! Seen them at antique stores, never got one, now I'll keep my eye open for them and also the replacement leather and hones, maybe at least to pass on..

Originally Posted by engine46

I have a couple of them & they are in pretty good shape with the instructions but last year, I got lucky & found these, a replacement hone & strop for a Rolls:

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Here are my Rolls, 2 different styles. One has round buttons on the ends & the other has long buttons marked S for strop & H for hone.

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Substance, also there is a slot in the side & yours has it too for a place to put the shaving handle:

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I also found this tag in the bottom of one of them:

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Also, most of them have the dates of the blades on the back side, this blade is 1945:

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I have seen some as old as 1927 but people want a lot for them unless they don't know. I got one of mine off eBay for $11 plus shipping & the other from an antique shop but it was more but not as much as some ask on the bay.

Thanks for this, I'll keep my eye open for those kind of replacement parts.. you guys just made those razors look so interesting.. very much the gadge-like feel to it once you see it taken apart and worked on..

Originally Posted by BillyByars

Just restored one of my first razors. Blade was broken. Unpinned, used stop pin location and re pinned. Working on honing it and try to shave. Anybody ever used a razor this short to shave with?

Great to see a fix like that! I've got a couple I'm working on. What did you use to cut it? Clean job!

Once the pivot and spacer pins were removed, I taped the scale together. Measured and marked the same length(1/2") for the end. Used a hacksaw to cut. Shaped the end of the scale(while still taped together) with rotary sander.

Roll's info
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""Avoid slamming the blade on the hone!""
The hone will breakdown over time and there will be a little crater under the blade edge, coming and going. That reallydoes a number on possible smoothness of shave.
Do a lot of stropping strokes after honing, the hone is quite coarse!
~Richard

Substance
The back side has something like a pad under it. It isn't sticky in any way. If it were a glue pad, it might have dried up over the years. I took the strop from one of my others & it didn't seem to stick as it is made exactly to fit in the lid portion. That is one question that remains unanswered but it could just be a pad because if it were removed, it might sit lower in the lid but at the same time, it could have been a double sided sticky piece to hold it in place.

Okay. So this is a new one for me. Typically I work construction yada yada. I enjoy refurbishing knives swords guns furniture what have you. My friends say i have a particular knack for sharp objects. But this is my first straight razor restoration. I didn't take any pictures before, which typically is my S.O.P. Please forgive me I dropped the ball on this one. Its not perfect. You can still see a couple divitts near the blades edge. had you seen it Before you would have seen the rust that had taken over nearly the whole blade and the edge that was. Well it looked like some with turrets and Parkinson's took a dermal to it using the coarsest wheel they could find. as you may tell it's still not perfectly straight. I used a series of wet/dry sand paper ranging from 400-1000. hit it with the buffer for a little bit. Followed by a few wet stone I have the final one being 3000. Then to finish i have a very finely lined synthetic strop that I believe did justice. I used this razor right after completion. Now Im sure i will get yelled at for this, so here it goes. Using soap and water only it didn't tug, cut dig or pull once. That being said I believe it turned out nicely.

Scott133
Okay. So this is a new one for me. Typically I work construction yada yada. I enjoy refurbishing knives swords guns furniture what have you. My friends say i have a particular knack for sharp objects. But this is my first straight razor restoration. I didn't take any pictures before, which typically is my S.O.P. Please forgive me I dropped the ball on this one. Its not perfect. You can still see a couple divitts near the blades edge. had you seen it Before you would have seen the rust that had taken over nearly the whole blade and the edge that was. Well it looked like some with turrets and Parkinson's took a dermal to it using the coarsest wheel they could find. as you may tell it's still not perfectly straight. I used a series of wet/dry sand paper ranging from 400-1000. hit it with the buffer for a little bit. Followed by a few wet stone I have the final one being 3000. Then to finish i have a very finely lined synthetic strop that I believe did justice. I used this razor right after completion. Now Im sure i will get yelled at for this, so here it goes. Using soap and water only it didn't tug, cut dig or pull once. That being said I believe it turned out nicely.

You did well enough for a beginner. Like I always say, you never know unless you at least try. It will only get better the more you do it.

Hey! I work construction too.
It may be the shadows or angle but the blade looks like it has a bit of a frown. If it's shaving as it's supposed to then that's all that matters but I'd think about grinding back the blade edge to eliminate what looks like thinned out spots on the edge in the fist pic, if they don't go much further toward the spine.