Thread: What are you working on?

Horn is dirt simple to work, comes in a variety of colors and can easily be done with hand tools. Cut with a fret saw, shape with a scraper, sand with 600 and 1k, buff with paper towel and good metal polish.

If you have a buffer, buff with Green stainless compound from a 600 or 1k finish. Slower buffers are a bit over-rated. I have both, you just have to learn your buffers limitations with compounds and pressure.

Rake your greased wheels often and clean the teeth on the rake with WD40 and toothbrush to remove old compound and swarf.

Trim your wheels with a sharp scissors, I buy dollar store scissors, store next to the buffer and replace them when they get dull. The threads slapping the scales, mar the finish. Also wipe the scales with a paper towel and WD40 then buff your final finish, it will produce a finer high gloss finish, works on steel too.

Finished cleaning J. Bingham. Now it remains to sharpen. Happy new year to all! Health, good luck, happiness and good razors!

I've been tinkering with this for a while and finally got it together. It was ment to be a brush and razor stand for my wife. I based the dimensions from her razor, but didn't measure the brush. Turned out the brush was longer So it became a his and hers razor stand (I'll make a separate brush stand next). The base and uprights I milled from a cherry root and the top was milled from a cherry branch. All of the wood is from a tree we planted in the front yard when we first moved into our house.



I've still got some gaps to fill in the joints, a bit of sanding, and some finish to complete. It's not perfect, but the wife is pleased with it and it's been a nice change of pace. Before you ask, the rainbow ti finished razor is not mine

Originally Posted by RezDog

For example, it is nearly the same distance from Orangeville Ontario to me as it is from Orangeville to Houston Texas. It takes more than a week longer for a package to get to me from Orangeville.

According to CP, the dog sled from Orangeville is arriving in your town today Shaun.
Hope someone’s home.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

According to CP, the dog sled from Orangeville is arriving in your town today Shaun.
Hope someone’s home.

Sent a Christmas package to a friend in Clearwater, BC using Canada Post on December 4. It got there Friday. Might’ve been faster by dogsled.

There are people there!
I may have a visitor on New Years Day, so with a little luck I’ll see that before I get home on the 14th..
Not bad, you mailed it on the 11 Dec and there was the whole Christmas rush in the mix, and it is expedited so they use the faster dogs, but not the fastest dogs. I’ll be happy to have it in my hands. Thanks!

Made scales of oak for the blade Frederick Reynolds. I did it for the first time.The color is more similar to the first two photos.

Looking good.

Bob

I like those long grains in scales. Well-done!

Hickory makes nice ones, FME.

Love the shape and that you got them pretty thin.

There are some great dyes and stains when used in concert, that can mimic the look of fumed white oak, ala Arts and Crafts styled finishes without fuming, even for Red Oak.

A fumed type finish would add a range of color to the scales.

Nice work.