Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by RezDog

...Most of the early hollow grounds that I have are more like half hollow by modern standards, which is a great grind from my perspective.

I'm not very good at judging between the degree of grinds. This one is pretty hollow though and it's bellied.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Looks good as-is! Henry Sears was a retailer and imported Sheffield and German razors with his name upon them.
Lord knows. It may be Sheffield made and Solingen ground!

Yeah I've been reading some stuff (but not very much yet) and part of it seems to conflict. I read some old posts by Neil Miller and even he said he didn't put that much faith in the sources he quoted. He was apparently quite a character Mr. Sears. From what I can tell it could be either and you're right Tom it may have been as you say. I think I've seen a few like that. It has a Sheffield look to me. Is it just me? It has that hump to the tang which makes it look W/B-ish to me. Maybe that's why I like it so much. I loves me Wade & Butchers.

Amendment to that last post. I was reading about the Henry Sears and the Packwood at the same time and got my stories crossed. Packwood was the one that I read about who was the character. Quite the showman and apparently a "flim flam man of great renown.
That's my next project


I want to proceed with caution on this one. I'm thinking this one I'm just going to clean up the blade without unpinning. The scales are in nice shape and straight with these nice floret collars which are all four intact and in good condition. I'm honestly a little nervous about taking them apart for fear of damaging them

Besides, there are no visible cracks and only maybe one or two tiny little bug bites which may not even be bug bites at all. I'm thinking maybe just some light sanding on the scales, working around the collars and concentrating on what I can do with the blade without disassembly.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

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I want to proceed with caution on this one. I'm thinking this one I'm just going to clean up the blade without unpinning. The scales are in nice shape and straight with these nice floret collars which are all four intact and in good condition. I'm honestly a little nervous about taking them apart for fear of damaging them
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I am a big fan of the 'light touch'.

I'm jealous of your project. Quite tasty.

And the finish begins,,

Went with high polish by hand on the cocobolo and beeswax due to the woods innate oiliness.
But am going Tung on the ebony and bubinga sets so that’ll take the rest of the week to set up..
That’s ok though, no haste when it comes to the finish. And all three woods have terrific grains.
Cheers gents.

Looking good! Which one's mine?

Lots simpler, finishing my finish. 3 coats done, steel-wooled and wiped-down. One more...

Paul, the Packwood looks like a gem.
B52, those bits and pieces are looking great, what size ammo is that?
Tom that is a marvellous looking table.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

And the finish begins,,
Went with high polish by hand on the cocobolo and beeswax due to the woods innate oiliness.
But am going Tung on the ebony and bubinga sets so that’ll take the rest of the week to set up..
That’s ok though, no haste when it comes to the finish. And all three woods have terrific grains.
Cheers gents.

At the risk of sounding stupid , what are those? They look like handles for something. The blocks they screw into are throwing me off. Are those strop handles? BTW, my neighborhood used to be a tung Grove. There are still wild (or ferel) tung trees in the woods. They will be blooming soon. This sounds familiar. Have we had this conversation before?

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None of your business, Paul. You don't want to know.
What you don't know cannot hurt you!!