Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

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DANG IT!!!!

Clean break.! U may be able to save them. A bit of CA, and brown hair dye should do it. Mock tortoise shell.

Originally Posted by outback

Clean break.! U may be able to save them. A bit of CA, and brown hair dye should do it....

I used 2 part epoxy. I was never a fan of super glue.

Horn is keratin. CA will penetrate and stick it together better than it will stick your fingers together!

Originally Posted by outback

Clean break.! U may be able to save them. A bit of CA, and brown hair dye should do it. Mock tortoise shell.

How do you do the mottling with hair dye? I've been wondering how to make worn, mottled horn look better.

Originally Posted by JP5

How do you do the mottling with hair dye? I've been wondering how to make worn, mottled horn look better.

Look aback around 750 pages I think.......

Originally Posted by 32t

Look aback around 750 pages I think.......

Or go old school & use toxic chemicals
https://sharprazorpalace.com/razors/...ml#post1137671

I'm still holed up in my cabin in the Smokeys until my in-laws leave, but I did bring some finishing stones to play with, a roll of my favorite shavers, and that spine-worn Wostenholm I posted about in the Honing forum to do some hand-sanding on in the evenings. Meanwhile, I'm also working on the following issues:



I caught a few rainbows much bigger than that one, but didn't bring a net, and the big ones don't pose for pics well lol! I'm having a blast getting back to my mountain roots.

Jerry, I love those maple scales-just ren-wax, huh? That stuff is amazing, isn't it? Paul, good luck with those scales. I have an almost identical FR rattler, and it's one of my favorite razors; you gotta love those old humpback, heavy-spined, shoulderless Sheffields, huh?

Finished the last Hone box...



Here is all four of them. Well, I made 5 but this is the two Jnats and two Thuri's...

You are a box making machine.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Jelly
I too don’t think it looks odd, it looks like part of the fleur de lis detail of the bolster. I think it finishes the detail nicely. And does not look too large to get in the way of holding when stropping or shaving.

I've been coming around to it. Showed it to some non-razor people who appreciate restoration and the history stuff and they had no idea until I told them about the "corrections" I'd done. It was quite comfortable when honing and stropping and I really like the balance, looking forward to the test shave.

Try using a small, single fluted centering bit. They are inexpensive and cut a very controlled divot, removing a small coil of material at a time, very controllable. I also made a fine punch from a small Philips screwdriver that I ground to a point then heat treated hard. It makes a precise dimple, that I then follow up with a bit larger center punch then drill a starting divot with a center drill, followed up with a sharp twist drill. The point of the small center drill is very sharp.

Good to know, I'll look into those bits. I've been putting a start divot in the flattened pin with a pointed punch, but this one jumped out for some reason.

You can also turn down washers to a specific size, by stacking on a small bolt or screw add a nut and chuck in a drill press or Dremel and run on a file to the desired size. If you do them together, they will all match.

Hadn't thought about stacking them, great idea!

Using a drill press, make sure you set up on the slowest speed, or just use a hand twist drill, I like the ones with the ball on the end, you can twist and apply pressure evenly.

You did a nice pinning job, and doming. I have found sometimes if the collars are too large, they don’t hold tension well, so I dome a smaller washer to the height of the inside of the large domed collar and pin with the smaller domed washer inside. Much like steel inner washer were used on Sheffield razors.

Thanks, I've felt like my pinning has improved. This is only my 12th resto, and I didn't unpin two, so I feel like I'm making progress. Good to hear it from an objective observer.

It supports the collar, spreads out the tension nicely on the scale and maintains an even tension with out the large collar cutting into the scale material.
Love those scales, nice repair. Robesons are some of my favorite shavers.

Thanks for you encouragement and advice. Helps me enjoy my successes and put less focus on the mistakes.