Thread: What are you working on?

I was thinking about some Lee Press On Nails...

Okay, well here's a little something. A Bow Razor I've had in the queue for a while.

This picture doesn't really do it much justice. The angle I took it from trying to get all of the engraving makes it look more pitted than it is. It was pretty rough when I got it. I did a test bevel set and did basically all of the sanding previous to my injury. I could either get it really smooth looking or keep the engraving darkened but not both. I blued the engraving and smoothed it off tonight and picked out some scales. Finally got it pinned up but I'm not really happy with it. I sleeved the pin hole to snug it up and it definitely snugged it up. A little bit too much really. I haven't done much with finishing off the pins yet because I'm going to take it back apart and take that sleeve out. It doesn't really fit in the scales right with it in there. I'm tempted to hone it up and give it a test shave but I'm afraid that will mean I won't rework the pins if I do that.
Well that's one project at least partially finished.

Okay, I couldn't help myself...

...great shaver. Bevel gets a little wider in the middle on the back side and honing the toe was a.little tricky for some reason but nothing serious in either account.

Every time I see one of the bow razors it reminds me of the ad from which I bought mine. The ad stated it was obviously intended for professional use by barbers because it has a moustache engraved on it. It was a most excellent razor.

Yeah, that's funny because at first I thought that was a mustache also then after a few times of reading the "bow" part in the name A collided with B and the light bulb went on and I understood the C

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Yeah, that's funny because at first I thought that was a mustache also then after a few times of reading the "bow" part in the name A collided with B and the light bulb went on and I understood the C

It has to be a double entandre, right?

Haven't posted in a while, but not because I wasn't working on anything. More like...life has been too busy, to give me much time for posting a crap pile of pics of rusty razors, turned bright, shiny, and shaving again.


What some of you may remember, is me making a deal with a new member, that joined the forum last August.

He went by the name of Hardeeo2020_ He was looking for someone to clean up n hone a couple of razors from his fathers collection, ( used to be a barber ) that he'd inherited. ( 36 in all )

The deal was, that Johntoad, another SRD member, offered to buy a certain, Clauss USMC from hardeeo's collection. I told Hardeeo I'd clean up his razors of choice, no charge, but for shipping to me, Johns included.

What I ended up with, was all 36 razors, minus the rusty, cell rot razor, and a few barbers hones, and a near wore out coti. Johns razor was singled out in a ziplock, with a piece of paper that had a list of Hardeeoo's ,razors to restore. Which he added a couple more too, from which was agreed on. But that's why he sent it all....the others were mine, for the work, and appreciation.



I've never dealt with a "lot", like that.!
Everything must have been coated with some type of grease, or petroleum jelly, at one time. But it had dried out, and got real sticky. I had to spray them down with goo gone, then scrub with a brush, using degreaser, and Lava hand soap.

So after much work, I managed to salvage 24 of 29.
Almost all had a frown, if lucky, just the beginning of a frown. Some, from bad honing techniques, others were honed into the stabilizer,

All blades were brought back with 3M metal restorer/ polish, and 000 steel wool.

You be DA MAN!

Good to hear you made it fhrough that pile, Mike. Congrats on a big job.

Holy cow Mike!!
Time to give the mitts a rest and kick back with the beverage of your choice.
You deserve a break.

Pete <:-}