Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Thaeris

Being obliged to stay at home has its advantages.

This one is done :-) :-) :-)

OOOH! Nice, that is a really cool design. Very different, I like!

Altus has a vintage one from the 1830 era :-)

That one looks like a fancy folding butter knife. Lol.

I finished up the Fredrick faux frame back and it's ready for a test shave. I left the scales a little rough to match the aged look of the blade and replaced the small brass collars with some of Austin's bullseyes. I think the larger diameter collar looks a little better with the size of the scales. I'm pretty sure the scales are not original to the blade based on the space to the wedge and the width at the pivot. I thought about shortening and thinning them, but decided to leave them the way I received them. I can always alter them later if it's a problem. The extra length was fine while honing. The width at the pivot felt a little odd with the narrow tang when I was honing so I might change that up, but for now I'll see how it handles the shave.

A couple of before pics


A couple of after pics

I hope it shaves as good as it looks.

Test shave this morning was pretty good, i think I need a little more work on the edge. Comfortable, just missing a little extra. I like these faux frame backs, kinda like a cross between a hollow and a wedge. This one is a keeper for sure.

I thought I'd make a few sets of scales today. So I broke into my Wood Blanks and dug out two. I will show those later after I get them sanded down.
Then I went thru a bunch of Vulcanized Rubber scales. I was looking for a thin-set of rubbers for a small near wedge razor. Couldn't come up with a matching set. So I found a perfectly shaped plastic scale but not a pair. I then figured I'd just sand and cut the rubbers down and make a set for this razor. So after a little cutting, redrilling and a lot of sanding here are the scales I reshaped and put on this Ribbon Extra Near wedge. 4/8 in size...
IMO, It looks factory to me.

Originally Posted by Gasman

I thought I'd make a few sets of scales today. So I broke into my Wood Blanks and dug out two. I will show those later after I get them sanded down.
Then I went thru a bunch of Vulcanized Rubber scales. I was looking for a thin-set of rubbers for a small near wedge razor. Couldn't come up with a matching set. So I found a perfectly shaped plastic scale but not a pair. I then figured I'd just sand and cut the rubbers down and make a set for this razor. So after a little cutting, redrilling and a lot of sanding here are the scales I reshaped and put on this Ribbon Extra Near wedge. 4/8 in size...
IMO, It looks factory to me.

I really think you should have drilled that pivot pin hole .00003" to the right...

Thanks, Tim. I will look into that next time. LOL.

Here are the two sets of Wood scales I made today. Zebrawood and Walnut. Contrasting wedges and the 2nd pic is the first coat of true oil. Maybe next week I can get them put together.

Fired up the teapot and worked on straightening the nylon core of the Every-ready Badgerlon (post #18116) with a little steam. The teapot worked pretty well to let me direct the steam to the core. I used a comb to undo the curls and then wrapped the tip fairly tight while it cooled. It's not perfect, but came out a lot better than before. A little polish for the handle and I'll be trying it out tomorrow.