Thread: What are you working on?

Here is a little something I threw together. Ha.
Rosewood finished in Polycrylic. Silver collars and pins.
Johan Engstrom, Swedish Frameback. This will make 3 of them for me.
Now I need to find another box.



Hope to get it on the stones next week. Its Sunday night for me so back to the rolling office tomorrow.
BTW, Thanks, Tom. Another fine razor from his to-do box.

Damn, Jerry.!
You keep this up, I may have to step off the throne.

Beautiful job, Jerry-For a guy who works so many hours hauling gas, you sure are prolific with the razors-you keep amazing me!

As much trouble as I've been having with horn lately, you've got me wanting to do some wood now!

Ive used a little horn but not the fancy stuff that you use. My guess is the fancy stuff has more issues. Just a guess. I like wood. Its simple. Easy to work with. The only issue 8s getting the finish on it right. If its an oily wood it can be tough. You just have to find the right finish product. Tru-oil always works but with oily wood, it can be a PITA to get it sealed. After its sealed, its fine.

I wanted to try something different so i tried this polycrylic for giggles. It is too soft of a finish with many coats. I think if you were to just seal the wood and put just one or two very thin coats on afterwards, it would be fine. But this set i put too many coats on. It will dent/scratch/scar easy.

And Mike, you got nothing to worry about my friend. You will always be the machine gun and put out many more than me. I will just put them out in bulk once in a while. Lol. I cant do just one!

Got my tang-stamps painted. I cleaned out all the stamps with a straight-pin (tedious!) and brushed them dry. Applied alcohol with a paper-towel and brushed them wet. Repeat!
I use a 'dabbing' technique with the paint pen and then squeegee that off top with the toothpick a bit. Gotta work fast. The paint skims in seconds!
Let dry and use a DE blade to cut the paint off.
Of course the Timor turned-out better with it's deeper tang stamps and darker blued tang.
As completely dry a rub with the thumb smooths things out some.

They are going home to shave!

Those look great Tom. Nice job of filling the stamps with paint.

Thanks, Jerry! The Adoration had some thin stamps. It has a blued tang of sorts only it looks like frosted etching. It seems to have gotten the red down in it. Some rubbing required..

Likely will hit it again and see if more of the etching will take.

Now the Timor is near perfect.
All in all, not so bad.
From arm's-length they look great!

Well done Tom, filling in with gold, or paint is not easy to do on the best of projects.
Really tight removal around the swirls and diamonds my good man!

They look great.

After a move from Missouri to Illinois, and with all of my summer house projects out of the way it is time to start working on a few razors.

I've got a Mappin in there, a Tally Ho, a few Wade & Butchers, a few Rodgers, an Elliott, etc.

One of the big W&Bs is pretty far along rust wise, with a good amount of pitting. I'm going to see if I can save it. I think it will take too much metal to get to all the pits. She might not end up as a beauty, but if I can get that one shaving again, it will be a win. For a $5 flea market find, I might as well give it a shot.

One of the Rodgers had been dropped and it had a large chip taken out of the middle of the edge/bevel. The metal was pushed off to one side, and left a wavy portion right in the middle. Normally I would consider that one a loss, but it was a big blade, so I took it to the grinder. It has lost some width but the chip and unevenness are gone. I tried to grind along the whole edge rather than focusing on the trouble spot so as to avoid creating a frown. Hopefully that was the way to do it. I'm finishing it by hand to get the edge perfect and remove any burrs before it goes to my stones.

Soon it will be time to learn how to make scales, so I'm sure I'll be back around for that.