What are you working on?

+1 to the hand saving. Been testing it out on 80 grit an a old rusty Rambo knife I found in a tackle box. Works the bomb indeed at 80 grit.
Reduced my rpm and generated metal, but no heat. Very cool option. And reversing to fluff the wheel is good thinking. Didnt think I would use the reverse much but it was in the original circuit I built so wth.
Just picked up 4 more buffs and 180, and 300 compound so I can have 2 wheels loaded with 80 and one each at the higher steps..
Next I need to see if I can restore my very old lathe.. Feel some word projects growing in the wintertime..

Wintertime = tomorrow in Ontario?

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It's definitely getting a little colder earlier...down to 7 C last night...little bit chilly, but beautiful to have the window open and the fresh air coming in...just a little bit crisp...still shorts weather though for awhile.

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It's definitely getting a little colder earlier...down to 7 C last night...little bit chilly, but beautiful to have the window open and the fresh air coming in...just a little bit crisp...still shorts weather though for awhile.

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I want to move to Canada,96 here today,113 in my shop,cold i can stand, this heat is killing me

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It's nice now....I personally love the cold, colder the better, but for some when the wind gets going and it's -20, sometimes down to -30 with the wind chill, and lots of snow, it can get a little bit "uncomfortable". Of course, through in a major ice storm where we were all basically out of power for a week in deep winter...that sucks.

Ohhh...and compared to BobH up in Thunder Bay, I live in the tropics.....:)

Lest we forget!
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Damn geese were leave en masse last night heard them flying over for a good few minutes last night..
I think they were heading for VA actually,,

But my dog loves it..

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Come to the west coast Bill. We don't get many days below freezing nor do we get many days over 100, in fact never that high if you go to the North Coast. Winter winds are little bit different of a story.

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Well, I just started closing the windows at night last week. I still work outdoors all day in just a t-shirt (I leave the house at 6 AM dressed that way). You have to relax and embrace the cooler weather, the sooner you start to acclimate, the better you will stand up to the real cold.

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Well, I just started closing the windows at night last week. I still work outdoors all day in just a t-shirt (I leave the house at 6 AM dressed that way). You have to relax and embrace the cooler weather, the sooner you start to acclimate, the better you will stand up to the real cold.

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Bring on the, "polar vortex", just start putting the razors, strops and soaps away, after a couple hours out in the cold, the whiskers should just shatter off the face...

I'm currently in Arizona enjoying the 95 degree weather. Another vaca with the fam before the real cold sets in back home. Last winter was a doozie, and I'm hoping we don't get anymore ice storms this season. I can keep most of my body warm and comfortable all season but it's my hands man!!! No matter what I do they always get cold.

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I know I'd ferkin' explode after 15 minutes where you are...I can't stand hot weather like that.

Have you ever spent any time, like a week or a couple of days, in any extreme cold weather, where it can sink right down into your bones?

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I know I'd ferkin' explode after 15 minutes where you are...I can't stand hot weather like that.

Have you ever spent any time, like a week or a couple of days, in any extreme cold weather, where it can sink right down into your bones?

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No I have not.Lived In Kali all my life,we get into the 30s in our short winters,perfect weather for me:)

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No I have not.Lived In Kali all my life,we get into the 30s in our short winters,perfect weather for me:)

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I know you like fishing, would be great to have you up to my buddies cottage in St. Sault Marie during February for some ice fishing, nothing like it! When you get into extreme cold like that, it becomes almost surreal...nothing like the night sky up North like that.

To give you an idea of the distance, it's about 10 hours by car from Toronto to SSM, to get to Thunder Bay where BobH is, add another 10 hours, so almost a full day driving to get that far North...simply gorgeous up there. Time just seems to disappear for me when up there.....

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I know you like fishing, would be great to have you up to my buddies cottage in St. Sault Marie during February for some ice fishing, nothing like it! When you get into extreme cold like that, it becomes almost surreal...nothing like the night sky up North like that.

To give you an idea of the distance, it's about 10 hours by car from Toronto to SSM, to get to Thunder Bay where BobH is, add another 10 hours, so almost a full day driving to get that far North...simply gorgeous up there. Time just seems to disappear for me when up there.....

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Sadley, I cannot visit your country,Had some legal issues with your customs people 20 yrs ago:(

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Sadley, I cannot visit your country,Had some legal issues with your customs people 20 yrs ago:(

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Did it involve a small blacked out speed boat crossing from Ketchikan into the Dixon Entrance?

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Sadley, I cannot visit your country,Had some legal issues with your customs people 20 yrs ago:(

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Amnesty brother, or a waiver. Even Keith Richards was allowed back in after filling out a few forms.
I was turned back going the other way years back for legal, umm, anomalies..went through the system years later to purge my sins and am good to go again..

Now, to drift back on topic, I went in to work a few hrs today and glad I did. This was waiting for me from McMaster Carr.
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So aside from polishing steel, I also have a few strips of wood to see if I can make some scales out of.
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Cheers.

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Did it involve a small blacked out speed boat crossing from Ketchikan into the Dixon Entrance?

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No, involved animal products from Alaska.

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I had THAT figured out, Pixel! ;) So the fire has not made it there?

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No Fire yet. lots of smoke,Coming back from AK, got nabbed with a bunch of walrus tusks (legal) 3 musk ox skulls (legal).
Grizbear Claws (not legal),Bald eagal feathers (not Legal) (::: I fought the law and the won:(

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Well, another football game, some more razor scale work. This time, sanding the ebony scales I cut on Monday, and putting a little wax on them:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...4&id=748470623

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Lookin' good multi tasker!!!!!

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I know you like fishing, would be great to have you up to my buddies cottage in St. Sault Marie during February for some ice fishing, nothing like it! When you get into extreme cold like that, it becomes almost surreal...nothing like the night sky up North like that.

To give you an idea of the distance, it's about 10 hours by car from Toronto to SSM, to get to Thunder Bay where BobH is, add another 10 hours, so almost a full day driving to get that far North...simply gorgeous up there. Time just seems to disappear for me when up there.....

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Do you mean fishing like this? I don't know if he's up to it :shrug:

At least it beats the heat :tu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x768VAsOQSw

[QUOTE=cudarunner;1395990]Do you mean fishing like this? I don't know if he's up to it :shrug:

At least it beats the heat :tu

Screw that!!! I have metal in my back that can't even handle cold weather here in Texas sometimes. More power to them. I'm glad they're perfectly healthy, unlike me!

Hand sanding my latest custom.
Ball ache.

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Do you mean fishing like this? I don't know if he's up to it :shrug:

At least it beats the heat :tu

Screw that!!! I have metal in my back that can't even handle cold weather here in Texas sometimes. More power to them. I'm glad they're perfectly healthy, unlike me!

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Looks like a fine day to me....

Deckard - sorry for the ball ache....

Those are finished !

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The only true wedge I ever had in my collection

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Now, honing work !

Like to know how you fair on the honing of that true wedge. Tape/technique.
Almost to the same point on one I'm cleaning up now and is almost back in its scales.
Nice work!

I think I'll indeed put some electrician tape on the back of this razor. :)

Man, those scales look authentic! Nice job, Thaeris! :tu

I'm not pretending they are.

Of course if I ever come to sell them, I'll precise the scales are home (and recently) made (with vintage authentic materials).

I have a Joseph Allen & Sons that I need to make new scales for. Trying to decide between nice wood or a micarta or even a good horn if I can find somr nice maerial.
Slawman

I have a "Diamond" 9/16ths which for 6 months has been eating my lunch. Finally I got a hone combination to work with it. :aargh: It now Shaves!!
Today a requested rescale in late nice "rope edge" faux Ivory scales. And...out the door!
May your day be so happy!
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I have a Joseph Allen & Sons that I need to make new scales for. Trying to decide between nice wood or a micarta or even a good horn if I can find somr nice maerial.
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It kind of depends on the style of blade but most times given a choice I will pick the horn scales, they just seem to have more character and charm.

Not much,just sort of cobbeling some stuff together,Some Thuya,Some musk ox, some Ivory, some buff horn.
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I will be working on my first attempt at making new scales. Despite what my good friend cuda has emphasised to (at) me, I am going ahead with jumping right in to the mix. Maybe I differ from a lot of people but for me, failure is a valid option. Why? Because no amount of practice on similar, but not the same materials, will assure you of a positive and perfect result when you get to the project. I will be making a set of scales out of slightly warped Camel bone, adding high tech plastic liner and as yet undecided wedge. Enough recognisable problems right off the bat. Major lesson learned will be if successful, no problems in the future if used again. Failure, either correct errors next time used, or not use again. Either way, failure, in this case is a valid learning process. But maybe that's because my mind works that way. I started as an oil painter, many mistakes as you paint and you just scrape off or paint over. Also, cud has told me I'm a teenager in an old body and am much too impatient to do things in an orderly fashion. Hey! I tried that approach and my marriage lasted 15 years. I learned from that failure. As a born-again-bachelor I'm staying that way.

Finally found a use for those cheap Gold Dollar scales. Quite by accident actually.

I was selling a razor and whilst test shaving, the tip of the original scales broke off.

I was out of replacements so I grabbed the GD scales and started to try to remove the cheesy gold etching on the side with a steel brush wheel in my dremel.
It went deep and created a faux wood grain look after some sanding with 1k grit paper. So I decided to do it to the whole scale. Here's how it turned out.

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And the aforementioned Gold Dollar...

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Did some dremel jimps on top to help with grip and a little notch for show underneath...

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I like your view mine is similar jump in both feet first and see if you drown if not all good the rest is life experience
But I have also always lived by this quote as much as possible
"Learn from others mistakes, as life's to short to make them all yourself"

Look forward to seeing the finished product either way

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I will be working on my first attempt at making new scales. Despite what my good friend cuda has emphasised to (at) me, I am going ahead with jumping right in to the mix. Maybe I differ from a lot of people but for me, failure is a valid option. Why? Because no amount of practice on similar, but not the same materials, will assure you of a positive and perfect result when you get to the project. I will be making a set of scales out of slightly warped Camel bone, adding high tech plastic liner and as yet undecided wedge. Enough recognisable problems right off the bat. Major lesson learned will be if successful, no problems in the future if used again. Failure, either correct errors next time used, or not use again. Either way, failure, in this case is a valid learning process. But maybe that's because my mind works that way. I started as an oil painter, many mistakes as you paint and you just scrape off or paint over. Also, cud has told me I'm a teenager in an old body and am much too impatient to do things in an orderly fashion. Hey! I tried that approach and my marriage lasted 15 years. I learned from that failure. As a born-again-bachelor I'm staying that way.

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Now, now, if you remember I sent you the links to the washers you would need and I advised to practice on some Popsicle sticks before you launched in full bore. I also sent you some wooden scale material to try and sent you some links to see how others did it with hand tools. I don't recall ever saying not to make scales, just to go slow as I hate to see materials wasted.

But then again I smoked dope back in the day so maybe my memory is off :rofl2::roflmao :rofl2::roflmao :rofl2::roflmao

Please keep up posted with your progress :tu

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Finally found a use for those cheap Gold Dollar scales. Quite by accident actually.

I was selling a razor and whilst test shaving, the tip of the original scales broke off.

I was out of replacements so I grabbed the GD scales and started to try to remove the cheesy gold etching on the side with a steel brush wheel in my dremel.
It went deep and created a faux wood grain look after some sanding with 1k grit paper. So I decided to do it to the whole scale. Here's how it turned out.

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That is kind of a cool effect. I can see that it might be fun to play with that.