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    Lovely razor, good job!

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    I am at rolodave's home for the next two days. This is the first stop in my vacation.

    I brought along a bag of old razors to have something to work on with dave.
    Unfortunately i did not look closely at what was in the bag.
    Most of the razors are junk!��
    This was a bag i put together about 5 years ago of blades to use for restoration practice.
    Here are some pics...

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    Looks like you have a nice collection of scales you can repurpose even if many of the blades are destined to become wind chimes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RezDog View Post
    Nice job on getting that face so clean. The plunge lines look perfect too. You have done an amazing job. Do you think you can do the tang and keep the makers marks crisps?
    The patina on the rest of the blade is really nice, at some point someone must of cleaned it as there isn’t any old rust in the pitting. I was planning on leaving it as is. The blade face is currently sanded out to a Trizact 1200 grit equivalent. It is a nice looking satin but doesn’t look right for the blade. Not sure how to achieve a glazed finish, maybe one of you guys has some ideas on how to do that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Euclid440 View Post
    I either remove all the pits on the tang or accentuate them with cold blue and polish, so only the pits and stamps are black.

    If you don’t like the look, it can all be sanded off and polished.

    Nice work on the blade. Screams for horn scales and lead wedge.
    Definitely going to honor the blade with the typical pointy ended scales and lead wedge of the time in which it was made. May shake it up with streaked honey horn unless I can find some pitch black horn, though I guess I could dye them black if I can’t.

    I’m thinking of just leaving the spine and tang as is. The patina and pitting look really nice as is, I’m liking the look of the battle scars. Grinding the blade back to the beginning of the hone wear I felt was well worth it though now the blade faces have zero pitting.

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    Perhaps you could do a mild acid itch on the blade to produce a forced patina, to pull the age together. There are a variety of ways to darken the blade. I use Jax, but you could also use bluing and bleach, or hot vinegar, I’ve also heard of people using the cheap yellow mustard, as it is primarily just vinegar and salt anyway. Combine that with some nice horn scales. The combo looks great especially if you go to a gloss on the horn and then hit it with some OOOO steel wool to bring it back to a satin or low gloss finish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jfk742 View Post
    The patina on the rest of the blade is really nice, at some point someone must of cleaned it as there isn’t any old rust in the pitting. I was planning on leaving it as is. The blade face is currently sanded out to a Trizact 1200 grit equivalent. It is a nice looking satin but doesn’t look right for the blade. Not sure how to achieve a glazed finish, maybe one of you guys has some ideas on how to do that?
    I hand rub with emory, then red rouge, Cr/Ox, then finish with Flitz or Maas. I typically stop sanding at 1000 grt W&D paper, then back to 800 grt. Crocus paper before the emory and rouge.
    Its a lot of work, but I think its what your looking for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randydance062449 View Post
    I am at rolodave's home for the next two days. This is the first stop in my vacation.

    I brought along a bag of old razors to have something to work on with dave.
    Unfortunately i did not look closely at what was in the bag.
    Most of the razors are junk!��
    This was a bag i put together about 5 years ago of blades to use for restoration practice.
    Here are some pics...
    Texas meet canister Damascus?
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    Thanks Mike, that finish looks like the business. Just hand rub with a loaded cotton cloth? Or are you using 0000 steel wool?
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    Finally recieved the knot and finished my brush, I used a 25mm high mountain white knot. After playing around with different weights I settled on 2 lead weights that sit near the botton, seems to give it enough heft in the right place, all epoxied in.
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