Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by randydance062449

So the rule is to use very dry wood!

Yes, the hard vacuum, (29 inches of mercury), boils the water out of the solutions or substrates.
Roughly the opposite amount as a high humidity day's relative humidity or higher for reading on a vacuum gauge.

I’ll fill it up tomorrow and check it after 24 hours. I’ll let you know how it made out. I should only need it for 6 hours at a time, but I’ll probably leave them in a bit longer, like an overnight. I’d love to learn more about splayed woods and how that process works. I’ve seen pen blanks and such on Etsy but I don’t trust the average person to do it right, so I bought everything I needed and went to researching so I could make heirlooms for friends and family. The only things left I need are a good lathe chuck and a lathe mandrel first polishing resin. It’s a MT-1 for both head and tail. Spindle is 3/4”. It’s a lathe my brother had sitting around from Harbor Freight a few years back. My molds are medicine pill bottles that are roughly 1.5” diameter by 6” length. If anyone knows of the right chuck for the job, feel free to chime in. I’ve seen some other posts about it but most were ways to rig it up. Most are 2” diameter chucks and I want to minimize waste by starting with a cylindrical 1.5” diameter. Also looking for a jacobs collet expanding chuck set in small increments around 1”.
Sorry for the rant. Haha.

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You should have some good answers by this time tomorrow.

So the stubtail came in today's mail.
In the listing they had it listed as Jamer London...

...when it is clearly James Johnson.

This one is going to be a project for sure. The scales at least.

Scales are cleaning up nicely, on Steve's razor. Almost ready for the repair work. I see there's a bit of natural streaking, left in them. Nice!



Diggin out all the deep delamination and dirt, is the most tedious chore, of working with honey horn. Sometimes ya gotta leave some, cause too much patch work becomes noticeable, and unsightly. The real nasty one's, would get dyed black, or dark brown.

Easy peasy, Paul.
Yell when your ready.

Beautiful work Mike, I’m so happy to have that razor in good hands!

Repairs to the scales are done, and are taking a oil bath.
Blade has been cleaned up with 3M, only thing left is cleaning up the collars and wedge.

Very nicely accomplished ! 'Tis a true treasure.
-Richard

Mike you are the what are you working on thread champion. Nice work and great production!