Thread: What are you working on?

Finished the Frederick Reynolds, today.




After cleaning up the original wedge, it was too thin to allow the blade to sit at the proper depth in the scales. I needed around 1/32" more clearance, so I lined each side with .016 brass, for a perfect fit.





All honed and ready for Christmas morning.


A family photo shot.



And I've started on the Wosty.




Some sanding from spine to edge, gives me a visual on where I'm sanding while undercutting and removing the hone wear when sanding from toe to shoulders.



I could speed this up with the dremmel and greaseless wheels, but that's more of a chance to slip over the spine and cause more damage. Plenty of work to do as is, don't need any more. New Years right around the corner.

Outstanding Mike,

And a merry Christmas to all the SRP gents!

And Merry Christmas to all from the place that gets a white Christmas once every 100 years or so.

Incredible transformation Mike! Outstanding!

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Excellent workmanship.

Are you trying to assemble a Wosty 7-day set Mike?

That is gorgeous work. Colour me jealous.

My Wosty collection well surpasses a 7 day set. These are the three oldest Frederick Reynolds razors, I have.

I do have another that's identical to the one I just finished, but its a smaller version, and doesn't have the original scales. Hopefully, I'll stumble across a set with a honed out blade in it, that I can salvage from. It'd give me a reason to do a better job restoring the blade, than I did many years ago.



But you could say, I'd like to put a 7 day set together of oldie's like these. At least in this scale, design. Then I'd have to search for that, elusive as Bigfoot, 8/8+ Reynolds, razor.

Lete have a look through my old Sheffields Mike. I may have one that fits that description. I know I have a couple smaller ones with that badge on the horn and I believe one is pretty spent.

Okay, off topic but here goes.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

And Merry Christmas to all from the place that gets a white Christmas once every 100 years or so.

Here's the last time.


North Florida, Christmas Eve 1989. I remember because the last time it snowed here on Christmas Eve was 1898 and it was a strange twist with the numbers.

Gettin closer.!



Many hours to go on this side yet, but the spines almost squared up again. Then there's the strop wear to contend with, going over the top of the grind line of the spine. Gonna be some work getting the lines back where they belong, on this one.