Thread: What are you working on?

You can just see the parchment paper box in the last photo.

I just gett new buffing mashine with 2 weels 25 sm each and i gen my jaws , with new piecess of iron welded
A good big new Jaws for pipmaking and holding briar pieces
The welding is a speciall universal welding for allkinds of steel and metals - Argon welding

I have my work cut out for me with this one!

Originally Posted by Ernie1980

I have my work cut out for me with this one!

You need something to keep you busy in these dark nights

Originally Posted by Ernie1980

I have my work cut out for me with this one!

'IF' you have other scales of similar color but are 'junkers' you might try this to fill that 'chunk' however they look like horn scales and I'm not sure if the 'trick' would work. With that said, you could always play with a bit of horn dust to find out.

I hope this helps.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ht-razors.html

I was thinking about trying the horn dust idea just to give it a shot. The scales are pretty chewed up though so I will probably need to make new ones or find a donor set!

Some things I heat treated yesterday.

Top: San mai I made myself, with a core of O2 and sides of Howard Clark 40 layer Damascus
Bottom: 5 layers of O2 and 15N20 I made myself.



Top: Predator razor in Maarten Van Hattum Damascus. Maarten is a Dutch smith who makes good steel
Bottom: Arwen razor in Wootz. The wootz was made by a Belgian craftsman Evrahim Barran.



When I make layered steel, I always have some end cuts that are not big enough for a razor. I like to turn those into little kitchen knives.
Top: leftover from the 5 layer billet
Middle: leftover from the san mai billet
Bottom: leftover from an old bar of 1095 and 15N20 Damascus.

Originally Posted by Ernie1980

I was thinking about trying the horn dust idea just to give it a shot. The scales are pretty chewed up though so I will probably need to make new ones or find a donor set!

Ernie, I have tried the horn dust & it works to a degree but it is sometimes hard to match the colors. I also get emails from Stewart-MacDonald about repairs because I have bought tools from them years ago when I was working on guitars & Dan Erlewine is one very smart man so cuda's link is a good one. I have been saving those emails for years. They also have some good tools for working on straight razors.
As many may know, the 3 primary colors are red, blue & yellow & with those you can make any color but matching is a trick but ink can sometimes be used to make different colors. I was building a circuit board for an amp once & I drilled a wrong hole in some red fiberglass board so I made some dust from a spare piece of it & I filled the hole with it & packed it in there & then put some thin CA in it. It worked out well but when it was dry, it was just slightly lighter in color but was close enough that you really had to look for it to see it. It is cool to experiment with sanded dust, powders etc. & sometimes one can get lucky.
Good luck my friend.

silver steel warranted wedge and Frederick Reynolds half hollow coming along