Thread: What are you working on?

I'm going stir-crazy not being able to do much and the wife watching me like a hawk to be sure I don't do anything. So I dug up a couple of blades that needed just a touch of work and then pinned. So here they are.

Ern #411 / Barber's Favorite, dressed in bone...



I had to do a little research on this Graco. All I could find was a picture of a Barber Hone with the same exact Graco stamp. So my guess is it's a Henry Greave Co.



Please correct me if I'm wrong and/or confirm my thoughts on this one. Dating it would be helpful too. It is a Full Hollow so I figured the 1920s or 1930s???

Not completely done yet. Still have to polish and hone but the Vulcan is back together.
Before:



After:



Edit. Oh yeah. Those are mock up pictures. I guess I didn't get any good pinned pics yet.

I’m glad your wife is watching you like a hawk Jerry. After my hernia surgery when I wasn’t suppose to lift anything heavier than a coffee cup, everyone had an eye on me. It’s good we have people to look out for us when we are too stubborn to follow simple instructions. I bet you are correct on your age guess. Paul I like that style of scale, it will be nice pinned up I’m sure.

It takes all my wife's time keeping me from re-injuring myself. Where would we be without them. The book of Genesis says, "The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.' ” the next phrase should have read, "...because that joker is going to hurt himself!"

Pinned up already Shaun. I just didn't get pics of that. I planned on doing a little more extensive post but I was snapping toothpicks last night.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

...but I was snapping toothpicks last night.

That's a new one on me, Paul. What does that mean?

...

Okay here are the pinned pics of the Vulcan.




The blade face I sanded and sanded trying to get some really deep lateral scratches out. Sanded as much as I was willing then progressed up to 2k then decided to go back to frosted. So I sanded vertically (spine to bevel) with 800 W/D. The spine, tang and tail horizontally up to 3k.
Darkened the stamp on the non show side so it showed up better.
Before:




After:


Went with nickel silver pins and collars on these sculpted scales.
It had wood before which was rather plain.and felt too big.




I did extensive work on the scales too as they were not original to the donor razor. Because the wedge end (actually it is a spacer, not a wedge) was improperly pinned and the pin hole through the spacer was not straight the blade would not center and it caused them to warp which I fixed


The person who put the other blade in them put a giant washer on one side of the blade which stuck out like a sore thumb. In spite of that it still didn't center.


Also they left some gouges at the pivot end where they removed the old pins which I patched.


All around not bad.

Outstanding!

Thank you sir.

Careful there Paul or you might be asked for scale making lessons when i make my first set!