Thread: What are you working on?

Is it me, or are Packwoods pretty crude? (I know the answer, BTW)

It has some more room to sand without going too far but someone went at it with something really rough. It may have been at the factory although I don't think so. Anyway it has some really deep striations laterally on both sides but they're not really that noticeable after some polishing. No way I'll get them all out without a regrind and why would I do that? I think I may work on the scales a little just to even out the texture along the length and leave the blade alone now.
Funny, I love the look of the old wedges but I prefer the paper thin hollows for shaving. Somehow I keep buying the wedges though.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Is it me, or are Packwoods pretty crude? (I know the answer, BTW)

They seem ...primitive to me. Crude is a word. I think I'd say......rough maybe? Cool though in the way a foot pump organ or a pedal driven lathe is cool in a primitive kind of way

Yes. Like that! If you study Packwood, he was an enigma. The strop-man.

Got away with the HRM stuff, quite a salesman.
https://sharprazorpalace.com/strops/...rop-maker.html
You can bet the razors which bear his name were cottage produced. No two seem quite alike to me.

Was a poet!

Sans doubte--Mr. Packwood, your elegant Strops
Are the best that e'er mortal invented,
We have nothing to do but to lather our chops,
The razor soon makes us contented.

Surely magic herself has been lending her aid,
To assist in the brilliant invention:
And the fam'd Composition you also have made
Should assuredly gain you a pension.

That's what gives them personality. Late for that tonight but I'm dying to see how the bevel sets.

Bear-down!

Before you decide you are done with the packwood try setting the bevel. If the bevel is all cattiwompus you will know there is a little sanding left to do. It looks great now. I’ve gotten a few old wedges to where I was sure they were perfect and then backed up after the hones.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Before you decide you are done with the packwood try setting the bevel. If the bevel is all cattiwompus you will know there is a little sanding left to do. It looks great now. I’ve gotten a few old wedges to where I was sure they were perfect and then backed up after the hones.

Good tip. I've run into that with a couple which I need to revisit. I've got way too many unfinished projects. WHERE'S MY RITILIN?!?!

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

It has some more room to sand without going too far but someone went at it with something really rough. It may have been at the factory although I don't think so. Anyway it has some really deep striations laterally on both sides but they're not really that noticeable after some polishing. No way I'll get them all out without a regrind and why would I do that? I think I may work on the scales a little just to even out the texture along the length and leave the blade alone now.
Funny, I love the look of the old wedges but I prefer the paper thin hollows for shaving. Somehow I keep buying the wedges though.

I used to not like wedges either, but once you actually get one dialed in on the hones, there's really no difference between them. IMO

In my eternal quest to make my wife question my sanity i made a little shadow box for the bathroom.



Top to bottom is a Joseph Rogers, The Admiral and a C.H. Wheelan. All Sheffield stamped blades. They all shave but they have been in the drawer in the shop for too long so i figured they are too pretty to just sit in the dark.

I used 'Tidy Pins' and fishing line to secure the straights.

One step closer to charging an admission fee for the bathroom when we have company.