Thread: What are you working on?

You know, they say the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys but there's one other thing that the adage doesn't take into account. When you become grown you don't outgrow your toys like you did when you were little. With this particular hobby some of these things have been around for
200-300 years and will be around for at least that much longer. How great is that? You can take something that to one person may have seemed discardable and turn it into something that will be of great use for generations to come. As for this particular little sweetie, I was more than pleasantly surprised how well it performed. I think these Imperials of this area were ground by ERN also weren't they? In any case I have another one that I got in a different lot exactly like it which will likely be my next project. I think I might try to collect enough to make a 7-day set out of these and maybe even get the days of the week engraved on the spine. That would be a cool project. I'll have to look through some of the boxes earlier in this thread to get some ideas for it.

Sounds like a fun project! I think Tom is the 7-Day set guru, and Jerry is the sensei of boxes. And yeah, any ERN razor is probably going to be a sweet shaver. I don't know about your Imperial. I have one that just says Germany on the back of the tang. I'll get it out to fondle later and see if I can figure it out.

Imperials are made by a different maker. I have his name somewhere but he made razors for many many people. I beat ya to the set. I made a 14 days set out of Imperials. All with different etchings and all with a different wood for scales. They are gr at shavers. It was one of my favorites when i first started shaving with a straight...

Nice Jerry.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Imperials are made by a different maker. I have his name somewhere but he made razors for many many people....

I must be getting what I read mixed up. I think it must have been that they, like ERN, ground razors for a host of other companies.

Beautiful, Jerry-Now I remember you working on that. Would it be too much trouble to ask for the woods used? Top and bottom, left to right, 1-7, something like that? I LOVE #6 on the bottom-bocote?

Lots of nice projects showing up.

Made some progress on my latest Packwood. Got the blade finish where I like it and started on the scales. I decided on some olive drab and black G10 material. I've never worked with it before...wow it's tough! Should have read up on it a little before I started, it pretty much destroyed my band saw blade. After cutting it I was a bit concerned about dulling my files, so I cut up a 60 grit PSA disc and stuck it to a small paint stick. It's been working well. I got the profile finished and am working on the final shaping.

Originally Posted by JellyJar

Lots of nice projects showing up.

Made some progress on my latest Packwood. Got the blade finish where I like it and started on the scales. I decided on some olive drab and black G10 material. I've never worked with it before...wow it's tough! Should have read up on it a little before I started, it pretty much destroyed my band saw blade. After cutting it I was a bit concerned about dulling my files, so I cut up a 60 grit PSA disc and stuck it to a small paint stick. It's been working well. I got the profile finished and am working on the final shaping.

G10 is not only tough on tools but it's really tough on your lungs. I do hope you had adequate respiratory gear on.

Good luck on your project, it's coming along nicely.

Looking good JJ-I was going to say exactly what Roy/CudaRunner said. G10 is tough indeed; it's basically a matrix of microscopic fiberglass in some sort of epoxy if I understand it correctly-someone correct me if I'm wrong. I always mask up and wet my sanding/grinding surfaces when working with it to keep the dust down.

G10...Tough stuff indeed.

Even the very thin pieces used as a scale liner are a bear to cut.
It has always worked great for me on wooden scales.

Pete <:-}