Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Geezer

"Wife Happy; everybody happy!"

About like an octopus lamp......Subjective!

When learning new skills there is often work to be redone and casualties. Everyone with a strong work ethic works to try to minimize these things, and often does not want to discuss how to repair what we messed up trying to repair soimething. It takes a big person to do that.
I am happy to look at what you have done and offer some suggestion from repairing errors that I made while trying to fix blades up. A lot can be done with sandpaper, wine corks and WD-40.

That is very good of you Shaun. I hadnt thought of it that way. And the stress of posting picks of a persons mistakes takes comfort in the friendship a person feels here on SRP. A fine thing for sure.

Originally Posted by RezDog

When learning new skills there is often work to be redone and casualties. Everyone with a strong work ethic works to try to minimize these things, and often does not want to discuss how to repair what we messed up trying to repair soimething. It takes a big person to do that.
I am happy to look at what you have done and offer some suggestion from repairing errors that I made while trying to fix blades up. A lot can be done with sandpaper, wine corks and WD-40.

You forgot the swimming pool, full of elbo grease, dedication, and time. Patience is a virtue.

A while back I was seeking, and found a beaverbrand razor for my barber.
It was his first straight back when he became a barber. He appreciated the gift and used it all last year on select customers.

Well I was in for my spring trim and Dino was bummed out because the cleaning lady knocked his razor, in it’s coffin still, off the table while cleaning up and broke the scale, but luckily not the blade.

Thinking the original plastic was getting a wee brittle anyway I’m leaning towards dark hardwood for this reskin project. Maybe a monogram on it for bling, and grip factor as well.
Cheers gents, happy St Patrick’s day!!

That will be interesting to see. I guess you hooked him up with a "loner"?



Here are some of the blades I want to redo. Not sure about the best place to start. Tried taking pictures that highlighted the problems instead of hiding them.

Not much, if anything. Don't see what's going on with the Butcher

Probably should have mentioned some specific questions I had!!

The Masonic razor has some etching I'd like to save, but the buffer blew the edges of the it. Not sure what I can do to make that look better AND keep the etching. Any thoughts?

Big Butcher has some deep pits that will probably have to be left. I guess I'll have to work my way down to a lower grit and then work my way back up. I think read somewhere the Celebrated Hollow original had a satin or two tone finish on the blade. Is that true or am I mistaken?

I know Greaves just needs a LOOOT of hand sanding. Would sanding the bevel area (large/uneven from improper honing) the same as the rest of the blade make it look less obvious once I get finished and re-hone it?

We can create the wonky bevelswith uneven sanding, and we don’t see it until we set the bevel. One solution to that can be to set the bevel and sand the high spots. A long hard backer can help to eliminate that. I do not see away to save the etch and repair the bevel on the one razor. Richard aka Geezer did a tutorial on darkening etches with bluing.. it is sometimes a choice between an etch or fixing pitting or a wonky bevel. A good technique that outback uses is to mask of an etch or gold wash and then repair around it. Of course that does have its limitations but may help you reduce the pitting around the etch on the celebrated. Sometimes we have to finish in a nice satin finish in order to have the blade show well, even though it still has pits.

Seems we all wanted a razor that shined like a diamond in a goats ass, when we started restoring. But it didn't take us long to realize.... Most razors aren't worth the effort, to make look like new. But a good cleaning and honing will bring them back to their glory of usage, again.

Time a patience is a virtue. As bad as I wanted to restore this razor when I got it, I knew my skills weren't there yet.





So I put it in the drawer for two years while I refined my skills, and soaked up a whole bunch of knowledge from other members. So during my week off, between Christmas and New years day, I took on the challenge of bringing it back around once more. Not one piece of sand paper was used on the blade, no buffer, no dremmel. Just plain ol elbow grease n metal polish. Yeah, I could have sanded the bejesus out of it, but then it wouldn't look like a 200+ year old razor, in great shape. And that's what I like.!! The old, but still in use, look.



Yet some are worth the effort, to look new again.