@ Sloan,
beautiful sheen on your scales and I love the layered contrast on the scales and wedge.
@ AlanQ
Sometimes you just have to pay the piper, but hopefully you have travel points on your credit card.
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@ Sloan,
beautiful sheen on your scales and I love the layered contrast on the scales and wedge.
@ AlanQ
Sometimes you just have to pay the piper, but hopefully you have travel points on your credit card.
Great!Quote:
Originally Posted by AlanQ
I refuse to like your post though.:rofl2:
I dont even like my post!Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
Same here, Tech arrived and I'll have my sporadic heating and he found the problem...but no replacement parts till Monday. I do know where to kick it though!Quote:
Originally Posted by AlanQ
Seems to be working:chapeau
My friend with the plow was just here and I am again connected to the outside world.
The older we survive to, the more we know the meaning of "Friends!" PIF in spades!:beer1:
Whole new electric furnace for me. Old one was leaking right near where the wires lead to the heating elements.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
Yeah friends are very good to have, neighbour lent us an extra space heater. Electrician is done, plumber thinks maybe 1 more hour, well till it works hes gonna come back when its warmer to finish off, there are a few other issues but heat is the primary concern
Wonderful!! I am happy to hear that.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlanQ
~Richard
+1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
Well... -16°F this AM and I was warm in the house for the first time in a long time. Temperature is now a stable 70°. No parts so he service man made a new igniter from the same sub parts from other devices, we tested it for an hour and now it is fine. I shall be happy to pay my bill!
God love a good technician of whatever trade !!!
Sincerely
~Richard
Glad to hear she's up an running,Richard. Stay warm brother, the season's still early.
Put in a half-day on my room yesterday.. Got my fixture up in the corner. Engineered a way to hang the barber pole sign.
Some foam weatherstrip on the edges keeps the light from blowing out of the sides.
Worked-out nice, I think.
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Finished the wiring for the LED's in the sterilizer cabinets...Bingo!
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These cabinets are plenty old, despite the slick-black exterior. No telling where they had been during wartime.
They came out of a local barber shop.
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Decided to omit the wireless switch and dimmer. I sometimes have lousy luck with such things, so I returned them to the store for credit and went more 'analog' ;)
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Got the mirror hung. Wotta pain! A little shelf under. Disliked the way it mounted, so some L-brackets engineered under!
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Cooking a 'brunch' now and will try to get in there and finish to-day!
Nice work.
Glad to hear everyone is warm.
All I have been doing is obsessively tracking my inbound bone slabs. I have 1/2 a ton coming from two spots. I am checking quality of sources as well exploring new sources. It should keep me puttering with carving for long enough to get through setting up the blades I want to do in bone for my purposes.
Lookin good,Tom
Good news bad news department.
Bad news is that the 500 gallon propane tank for my machine shop is empty. Gotta call tomorrow for a refill.
Good news is that the USPS is making deliveries today because of the holiday work load and my George Wostenholm 7/8 was delivered to my door this morning. She looks sweet. All I had to do so far is lightly sand the black horn scales and give them a soak of neats foot oil. The blade cleaned up very nice with 0000 steel wool and WD-40. Next it goes to the hones, the coticule, and the strops. I think I'm going to let my beard go seven days for the maiden voyage with this one.
I sure would like to see that one,Benz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benz
Coming along. I hate the carpet, every time I do something, I have to vacuum again! :p
Is what it is!
Got everything set where it will be. Little place is packed! :D
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Ran the wire under the carpet to the razor table. Cleaning on that.
Computer fan in the middle draws air from 3 sink-strainers on the perimeter and blows into the bottom of the table, which holds freezer-bags of razor boxes..Filters on top of some zeolite rocks in the strainers, brush covers the hole for the fan and is also a filter of sorts. A must with all the celluloid in there.
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Now to wipe down a pile of old razors and arrange them in there again.
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Took a break for a bit and did a simple chore. Hung up the razor clock.
With a new movement/battery, it seems to be keeping time again..
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I've got to do something about that Mike. I'm getting sick of posting with no pics. I do have some nice razors.....no real show queens but they are good quality and I would like to show them off.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
This Wosty cleaned up nicely meaning that I got rid of the crud and left some of the patina. The original vertical grind marks are still present. I feel that overdoing it with a mirror finish on a razor this old is gaudy. As near as I can tell the thing still has the original scales, pins, and washers so I didn't want to risk taking it apart. The tang pin does show where a previous owner peened it to tighten the blade. The horn scales were just a little rough to the touch and very dirty. I shouldn't need a tetanus booster now that it's cleaned up.:)
If you have a android type phone, you could use the Tapatalk app. That's how I do it, since I don't have a computer anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benz
I don't have one of those. I think the neighbor kid does though.
I just measured the thickness of the spine and it is exactly 1/4" thick. The tang is stamped George Wostenholm & Sons Celebrated I*XL Razor Washington Works Sheffield. No jimps but the tang is a hump back. Monkey tail is shorter than my Wade and Butcher. The spine has very little hone wear so I'll definitely tape it for honing. The blade has a nice big smile for me.:)
Tom that room is awesome!!
Very nicely done sir
Tom, the caves looking awesome.
Lighting looks perfect!
I've been adding a brass wedge to this fine old Morley in bone this weekend between shopping outings.
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Gave the scales a soak in peroxide to whiten them up some as well.
Tom , I see you're working on a super accurate "clock" :pQuote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
I got my scales finished up today and have been cleaning up a blade to go with them.
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Sharptonn, your straight razor room is the coolest!:cool: And Mike that Morley is sweet with the bone/brass combo. There's always some nice working going on here, I get a lot of inspiration and motivation from this thread. Hats off to all the fine craftsmen posting here! :chapeau
Those scales look great xiaotuzi! What kind of blade are you making them for?
Not much for today, been a little lazy, being its my only day off from work. But I did manage to tear down the Celebrated W&B, organized all the pieces into medicine bottles, and flatten the scales.
Which are now soaking in a zip lock bag of neatfoot oil, inside a small tackle box on top of the furnace duct. A little heat should help the oil penetrate quicker.
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B52- Mike I like that wedge. I have to get a grinder wheel for my buffer so I can shape some metal wedges too. Looks nice with that bone.
Tuzi, Looking good.
Outback Mike, what did you do to straighten that horn so nicely?
I used my trusty heat lamp, and corian countertop piecesQuote:
Originally Posted by RezDog
I spray a bit of water on, heat them with the lamp (1-2" off the scales) until hot and flexible, then bend and flex them to break the memory from the fibers until they lay flat, then move them to a cold flat surface, cover with another hard,flat, surface ,( corian ) and weight it down till cool. Sometimes I've had to repeat this a few times, before they stay flat.
I've done it with plastic too.
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I started with this Wade & Butcher blade looking pretty ugly but I saw some potential there and been wanting to get it fixed up for a while. It's a 7/8 blade and I just match up a scale from my spare scales bin that I thought fit it nicely and used it for a template for the new ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeJay
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Here it is in a test fit early on before I polished the scales. I made an aluminum wedge here but haven't trimmed the edges so it's still a wedge-shaped little rectangle at this point. The angle is good though and I like the level the blade sits at when closed so it's a keeper. I still have some work to do on the blade but it's already much improved. I forget to take pictures along the way because I get in a groove and time flies when you're having fun.
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I must confess that I completely destroyed a set of horn scales recently when heating them in the oven to straighten them. You turn your back for a few minutes and they are a twisted smoking mess. Apparently it does not take a lot of heat nor a lot of time.
That's what I like about the lamp, I can constantly keep tabs on the heat, and how pliable they become. Especially plastics.
Horn takes a lot more heat, and have had them start curling up, but they can still be straightened out. Did it to the first set of horns I ever flattened. So I keep the lamp in one hand, and the other on the scales, and only one at a time. So far I've only screwed up one set. They were plastic.
Took a few moments this evening before sandman gets here, and cleaned the blade with some 3M metal restorer.
I just love this stuff. It cleans and restores the natural luster and finish to whatever metal its used on, and doesn't harm satin, or brush finishes either.
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Not really hardware.. 😂
But for the next 3 months I have a great project. I'm ganna be a daddy daycare.
My wife and I have split parental leave, so today she's off back to work and I am managing the homestead and kids.
Not sure if safe 😂
Geek
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That's great you get to do that. I have 2 little ones and the time spent with them is magical.
There's good and bad times that's for sure, but they are the irreplaceable.
Have fun my friend
Thanks, this is our third between us lol they are grand. The parental leave law changed here last year meaning we can share it, so we are taking full advantage 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Dieseld
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Enjoy them as they are young! Best of times! :D
Anybody can see it reads 8 minutes til 3, Oz! :rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by onimaru55
I'll warn you that they grow up Fast! One day you're having to change their poopie diapers and the next thing you know, you turn around and they want the keys to the car! That's when you look at them and exclaim 'The Car Keys? You never learned to ride that bike without the training wheels did you"?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGeek
Trust me on this!
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I had five teenagers at the house all at the same time and I have to say they were some really great years. I did love spending time with my kids as they grew and found the teen years to be the most memorable.
Well...in YOUR neck of the woods, you must have been a fine entertainer to the teenage kids.Quote:
Originally Posted by RezDog
Mine, as teens, were all rebels and zero trouble, for the most part. They rebelled against their father on learning some basic things about life. The middle one did some of it. The eldest the same. Even the youngest did too, if I must admit. They were angels to everyone else.
Kids grow up slower here. Lazy if you let them.
Now I have the eldest which is 'Ms Perfect' and the middle who is a bit redneck and works super-hard.
AND, you have to beat a dime out of the younger one with her hand held-out. ......Wait a minute?
Time sorts it out, I am seeing.
I finished up the Wostenholm I*XL 7/8 this afternoon. After being a casket bearer this morning for a former employee and life long friend I needed some quality time at the hones. After carefully examining the blade with a jewelers loupe I discovered a tiny chip near the heel and some tiny pits midway down the edge so I used this for a progression 800, 1200, 4000, 8000 all with rolling x strokes and taped spine. After the 1200 it was shaving, after the 8000 it was tree topping. It also had the most uniform bevel I ever set on a razor. I smiled at it and it smiled back at me. I finished it up on my coticule no slurry, just water 100+ laps. Test shave will be Sunday on another 7 day growth of beard. I'm afraid this razor will be so smooth that I'll want to use it every shave. Special thanks to all my friends here at SRP.
Perhaps, just perhaps, a former employee and life long friend had a hand in setting that uniform bevel. :angel:Quote:
Originally Posted by Benz
