I've been desiring a bog oak / morta pipe for a while now. Nice work, Mike! I was blown away to learn this stuff is best when aged between 8,000 and 10,000 years! Crazy.
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I've been desiring a bog oak / morta pipe for a while now. Nice work, Mike! I was blown away to learn this stuff is best when aged between 8,000 and 10,000 years! Crazy.
Just a few scales for others and I, in bog oak.
But I did get the two day set repaired and shaving again.
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Oh wow! Thank you so much for making those.. brings a tear to my eye. Really is special! That is what I had hoped would be done. I have more of the same wood in storage in Indiana, this is more incentive to go get it and put it in the hands of true artists! Thank you.
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Auh yes! The Henckels 17... a gorgeous blade, hands down one of the highest quality.. IMO ... deserves no less than such a valued wood, carved by a master!
Much thanks my friends!
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It makes great repairs as a dust mixed with epoxy, for black horn. As you can see in the picks of the Elliot.
That was a repair for our member, Mr Z. You've missed out on a lot, Mike. Your name was brought up more than once while working with the bog oak. I'll have to pull out the Higgins in bog oak scales, and the Liberace brush, for this evenings shave. To honor your return. :bow
Oh man!
Is that two day set one I sent you? My memory is hazy, in fact terrible lol but I remember a two day set in a wood case, Joseph Rodgers I believe, with the kings stamp?
Very good work!
It's like Christmas in July seeing all these awesome things, that albeit very very very small I had a small part to play in it. :)
Thank you for sharing, it was so long ago (for me anyway as I have the memory of a gnat), that I had assumed no pics or recall was available.
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yes, Outback has better pics of the 17 in his 6th and 7th pics above. Super-nice!
I had almost forgotten about the Liberace brush! :D
They are the two day set you sent, but their Samuel Taylor's . Both had cracked scales of ivory, blades were covered in rust and a white looking corrosion of some sorts. In their respected, but in need of repair box.
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I repaired the scales by epoxying two layers of 3/4 oz woven fiberglass to the inside of the scales. And pinned them collarless. A first for me..
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Okay now I remember, I had two 2 day sets, one I sent to you, I'll have to see if I have the Joseph Rogers set still.
Those look great! Do they shave well? I assume yes yet I have not shaved with Samuel Taylor's.
At one point I really wanted to put together sets of various types of blades... all 7day sets.. a big wedge set, a frameback set, a faux frameback set, an FBU set... you get the idea.
Edit: That is genius with the fiberglass!!!