Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by outback

Lookin good, Jelly. 6+....wait till ya get done, then add um up. I put almost 25 hrs. into that last Wosty, and I cheated a bit with greaseless. Still...its all up to u, on how far u want to go. Some pitting, is just too deep and not worth chasing when hand sanding. Gonna look better than it did, though.

I don't doubt the time you put into that Wosty, looks really good.

There's several I have with 20+ into them, the Fredrick with the crack probably took that long just to find clean steel at the edge. Not complaining, I kinda like the challenge. Though sometimes I need to be reminded not to be lazy.

I have a lot of pairs, and I like making boxes. I have been working on recreating a dilapidated old box that I have. The latch evades me and I have settled on these latches from Lee Valley. The rest of the box is pretty close to the way the old one was made.

Wow, really nice. Is that leather wrapped? Either way, beautiful home for a pair.

Yes, leather wrapped and as traditional, a leather hinge. I have a number of pairs that I am building boxes for, and I am going to make a seven razor box as well. I may recover a few old boxes as well, like the model for this box. I need to order some more leather and latches. The 1mm leather is my target. The thicker stuff takes way too long to skive down to get it to roll well and lap with no bulges.

A day late, but I did a light restore/ clean up on this Heljestrand, amongst all the thanksgiving festivities.



Removed from its ivory grips, active rust cut free with a SE blade, sanded with 600 WD, emory on a felt wheel in the dremmel, cleaned with 3M, polished with Flitz.
Plenty of pitting left behind, just wanted it cleaned up, and a bit more presentable.





Cleaned the scales with Lysol, W/ bleach.


Pinned with silver/nickle rod, in traditional collarless fashion.



Honed up quickly, shave was incredibly close n smooth, this morning, and pleased it made SOTD, today.

Awesome job, Mike-I'm managing to get in some good shop time myself this long weekend-the Wosty in the top right is getting camel bone scales with turquoise recon wedge and brass hardware. I may try to finish it up tomorrow.

Under the heading of shop tips, the sleeves of 2"x2" gauze pads I got last summer on Amazon turns out to have a thousand uses in the shop: quick coats of Tru-Oil or other finish, then toss. Grab 1 to wipe off a little excess epoxy. Use it like a tac rag with mineral spirits to get the sanding dust off of wooden scales. Wipe polishing compound off a blade with acetone, whatever. They certainly don't replace good old shop towels (or old t-shirts and tighty-whities!), but they're great when you just need a quick, small pad you can toss.

nice save gents. Mike, I have one of those dannamore blades.
Really good steel that!

I bring all the expired gauze home from work, it’s great in the shop. Incidentally it expires because the packaging gets allegedly too old. It still works great.

Got my Wosty ready for pinning.

It still has a few pits, but it's a lot better than it was. I only took it to 1500 so it's got a slightly satin finish. It's hard to see in the pics, but I blued the scallops in the spine. I shortened up and slightly modified some streaked horn scales I had from a previous project. I'm going to go with some red guitar pics for the wedge, I like the splash of color. I'll use some of Austin's brass domes at the wedge and make slightly smaller brass domes from 00 wide washers for the pivot.





Looking forward to getting this on the hones.

Great to pop back in here, and see all the good work being done.