Thread: What are you working on?

Had a pce of mammoth Ivory laying around the shop,made a Razor Stand today.
Mounted on a pce of water washed Gabon Ebony.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Had a pce of mammoth Ivory laying around the shop,made a Razor Stand today.
Mounted on a pce of water washed Gabon Ebony.

Nice and a pleasure to look at!
~Richard

I have been working on a couple of razors here and there for awhile now and finally got one of them ready for scales. Atleast I think it is ready, but there is still some pitting that I might go back and get rid of. I got tired of sanding with 120 grit and decided to work my way up and see what it would look like polished. I wish I had before pictures cause this one was horrible. It was covered in rust and once that was removed it looked like the surface of the moon. In fact this is the razor I posted about awhile ago where the local pawn shop owner took it to a tool sharp grinder in front of my eyes. I went back and asked if he got anything new, which he didn't, but I decided to actually look at this one and there really wasn't as much damage as I thought there would be. The chips in the edge were gone and the edge was wavy. He said the scales were broke and I said that they wouldn't be a problem cause I can make new ones. Well he said he would sell it to me for $5 if I brought it back and showed him the new scales. I took that as a challenge and bought it. I think he said that so I would buy it. Sneaky pawn brokers. I should have passed because this thing was a PITA. I have never had to go to 120 grit before and this one needed alot of it. The hone wear is actually pretty much gone from how much I had to sand it. Needless to say it was a near wedge and now it is still heavier than a 1/4 hollow, but not quite a near wedge anymore. It really was a challenge to have to sand so much off and keep it even. Don't mind the metal polish in the pivot hole which will need to be sleeved. The razor should be 5/8 or alittle less when it is honed.

Today's work:
1) One of my hand forged long monkey tail choppers
2) 7/8 flowing with jimps. each jimp on top has a matching jimp on the thumb side
3) 7/8 humpback with ivy pattern on the spine
4) 'alien' razor. based on a couple of ideas for adaptations of one of the straight monkey tails I made earlier. As many notches as I could fit.
5) One of those long tail choppers I mentioned earlier. Only, during foring I accidentally overheated and lost half the tang in the fire. So I squeeze as much as I could out of it, in order to try and make it a chopper with a normal tang.

Originally Posted by JSmith1983

I have been working on a couple of razors here and there for awhile now and finally got one of them ready for scales. Atleast I think it is ready, but there is still some pitting that I might go back and get rid of. I got tired of sanding with 120 grit and decided to work my way up and see what it would look like polished. I wish I had before pictures cause this one was horrible. It was covered in rust and once that was removed it looked like the surface of the moon. In fact this is the razor I posted about awhile ago where the local pawn shop owner took it to a tool sharp grinder in front of my eyes. I went back and asked if he got anything new, which he didn't, but I decided to actually look at this one and there really wasn't as much damage as I thought there would be. The chips in the edge were gone and the edge was wavy. He said the scales were broke and I said that they wouldn't be a problem cause I can make new ones. Well he said he would sell it to me for $5 if I brought it back and showed him the new scales. I took that as a challenge and bought it. I think he said that so I would buy it. Sneaky pawn brokers. I should have passed because this thing was a PITA. I have never had to go to 120 grit before and this one needed alot of it. The hone wear is actually pretty much gone from how much I had to sand it. Needless to say it was a near wedge and now it is still heavier than a 1/4 hollow, but not quite a near wedge anymore. It really was a challenge to have to sand so much off and keep it even. Don't mind the metal polish in the pivot hole which will need to be sleeved. The razor should be 5/8 or alittle less when it is honed.

Really nice! Love shoulderless! Great job

Hey guys.

I picked up this Wm. Greaves & Sons recently and this is my first go
at a restoration. I was able to spend some time hand sanding this morning and this is what came of it:

Before:





After:


I still have more work to do on it. Still some lines / scratches that I'd like to buff out. But overall, I had a blast doing this.

Originally Posted by robert2286

Really nice! Love shoulderless! Great job

That is an interesting picture. I have 2 with the -exact- same profile and design. It's a Joesph Rodgers

Originally Posted by Lakebound

Taking this Jas. T. Scott 5/8 from this:




To this:



Just waiting on new scales to arrive and then we are off to the hones.

Frank

I'm working on restoring a Jas T Scott blade and making a set of scales for it now. Your post is the only one I've been able to find about this razor. Is it a good shaver? Also, do you know any history behind the company, or anywhere I could go to try and find some?

Thanks!

6/8" W&B, 5/8" Big Chief "Pathfinder", 9/16" Our Best Steel..?, current project no name, but a wreath like object stamp. Blade is currently in vibratory tumbler.



To be honed next (middle one had a heel hook that needed removing)


In the Queue:

Today's work. I final ground 4 of the razors I heat treated last week. I'm getting better at grinding, insofar that I still make mistakes, but I realize it when it is happening and I can correct it. So that's progress.

The big cleaver is worth mentioning. This was inspired by the W&B choppers that are wider near the toe than with the heel. Unlike some people think, this is not sloppy or a grinding mistake, and this will not create uneven hone wear; Not if you also make the spine thicker where the blade is wider. At the point, the spine is 5/16. Near the toe it is 3/16+ It was a bit of a challenge to make it work, but in the end I had a very even grind.

And then I also finished the kitchen knife. Acryl is easy enough to shape, but it truly stinks up the place.