Man that's pretty good for a swoll-up ankle fat man! :rofl2:
Nice work, Mike! :tu
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Man that's pretty good for a swoll-up ankle fat man! :rofl2:
Nice work, Mike! :tu
I like the looks of those scales.
Now who's Fat???
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Too late, Joel.[emoji38]Quote:
Originally Posted by Benz
Its hard to keep me down, even when I am. If they would have let me...I would have been working on something, while in the hospital for my heart attack.[emoji56]
Going to test your razor on some serious growth, haven't shaved since last Friday.
Great work on the scales, Mike. None do wood scales like you, man! The whole thing turned out really classy.
Sorry to hear about the injured flipper - looks like you sure did a number on it. Hope it's feeling better soon but at least you're not on the DL as far as razors are concerned.
Looks like a hefty one. Do we know anything about the maker?
lessee some tang stamps?
Mike, the Diller is absolutely beautiful. I can't wait to see it in your shave of the day picture......I hope you have a "Thriller with the Diller". Better yet I can't wait to shave with it myself.:D
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Full hollow, guessing 7/8, fairly beefy.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
He was a hardware store owner. Where it was made...?
Probably Germany, from the looks of it.
Nuthing on the other side?
Nope, nothing.
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Yep, I found it.
Made in Germany.
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So there WAS something on the other side! :D
Betcha Martin could nail down the seller!
Nice job Mike. Now have another scotch and put the foot up.
BTW, I got one marked that way too. Nothing, no store stamp just Germany on the tail.
I've looked in one spot, I'll look in the other tomorrow. If I can't find it there, I'm done.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
I think his head is pretty hard, or so his wife says:DQuote:
Originally Posted by engine46
What are we insinuating, Dave. [emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by Dieseld
That you're as bull headed and stubborn as I am...........
Actually today someone said something about my hard headedness. It was an older friend of mine, he said "If you tell Dave he can't do it, he'd go through a mountain banging his head to make a tunnel" yup I'm a bit like that :roflmao
I have to agree. You two take the cake! ;)
Me Too Dave. Glad I'm not alone! The wife has finally learn to not tell me to do something. I think it started with Radios.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dieseld
So while I have been playing with my lathe and getting my wood room set up I glued a couple blanks for bowls hopefully lather bowls and been turning some cherry. Pretty excited to get this finished and play with some new finishes. Can't decide on linseed with carnuba wax or CA. Going to get some teak oil soon as well as true oil. Eventually into acrylics.
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All I can tell you Tom is that I bought the thing on flea bay. I bought the "Diller" and the "Osborne and Garret" from the same vendor together at the same time. Why did I buy them?.....Well, they both had top and bottom jimps, and something about the two just said, "PLEASE buy us together and PLEASE keep us together", so I did. I'm an old softy, what can I say?Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
:)
Nice work my friend!Quote:
Originally Posted by ejmolitor37
Hmmm---That can looks really familiar :w hehehe :hmmm::roflmao:rofl2:
Yes Roy the can is familiar, though not so familiar these days for me. I thank my wife, I feel like Will Munny in Unforgiven at times. She has saved me from my wicked ways, some days just require a few drinks.
First up. Excellent job on the scales Mike. I think most of us have that hard head syndrome!!!!
Eric, that handle is looking nice!
Oh yeah, I honed a Rolls blade in one of my sets.
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I did it with the guard on it. Didn't affect it none.
Since they leave the guard on it in the kit, plus I looked at it with the tape on it like Tom did & the blade pivots inside the guard & I made sure the blade w/tape was touching & not the guard. It worked well & didn't chance losing the ball but Tom's idea is an excellent one should the guard touch. I also looked on the bay & they sell little balls as small as 2mm in case someone looses a ball. That didn't sound right...... :dropjaw:
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This, I started wet sanding it a little last night, but don't want to take all it's character away by sanding it to a mirror finish.
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Always finish sanding, by sanding from spine to edge.
Once you have it where you want it, toss it in a zip lock bag with a bit of pure, neats foot oil. (2Tblsp) Put it in a shallow dish, should the bag leak, and place on a window sill for a few days while you start your next project. Then you can pull it out, wipe it off, clean up the collars, snug up the pins, hone and enjoy.
OTT. Its lookin good.!!
Set um up...knock um down. [emoji6]
Well figured I would share my second re-scale job. This was more practice working with wood before the nice stuff gets here. Everything was made from scratch even the shape. Where as my first one I copied the original shape and wedge.
I used hard red leaf maple finished with boiled linseed oil, and polished with #0000 steel wool between coats approx 4 till it stopped soaking in. The wedge was made with some blue w/ black swirl plastic from an old set of knife handles. The taper is damn near perfect, and the blade has the same tension through its entire range of motion.
My only complaint is I made them just a touch on the light side, still balances well just a hair lighter than I would have preferred. Oh and the razor is a Ralf Aust 5/8's round point, the cheap one with plastic scales. What a great shaver though.
I also did a polished brush look and I think it came out awesome. I used 600 grit W/D with a cork going from spine to edge really carefully and then polished the tops of the ridges w/ Mothers to the desired effect.
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That's very nice for your 2nd job plus it's a lot better than the plastic scales!!!!
Great job!
Very nice, your learning still.
Its most imperative, that the inside of the scales be perfectly flat from the beginning, as well as the wedge. Always make your wedge a bit larger than the scales, this allows room for finishes to be applied.
Then you can mock up with micro screws , and fit the wedge with that nice, clean n tight look. I prefer the use of a file.
If you sand through the finish, just touch it up, let dry, sand and finish....Done.!
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Now your ready to pin it up.
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Somebody here contacted me about buying the scales. I'll let them go for a cheap price. I need to buy scales for at least 4 razors I own; my big W. Greaves and Sons, this new H. Boker and Co., a Shumate Prince and a 3/4 Frederick Reynolds. I'll try re-scaling my Shumate first, since I've never pinned any scales before. I'm worried about screwing it up, so I will research it and watch some videos, if there are any here or on YouTube.
Outback, what did you do to your ankle? Nice scale material. What is it? Looks like some kind of ebony?
Here is my newest blade, after polishing it out with .3 micron strop paste and taking it through my stones. It cut a hanging hair fairly well, but I'm sure it will shave well. I was careful not to strop it on the linen or leather side longer than about 30 seconds. I don't think I over-stropped it. I was told that it is possible to do that. Anyways, here it is. Now, I can turn my attention to my Shumate Prince.
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Just gave it a twist n tuck, at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by WILDMAN1
And yes, its black N white ebony.
Hope you recover quickly. Ok, great. I have a 1' piece of Gaboon Ebony in my woodworking shop, waiting for a very good reason to use some of it. The current price for it, by the board foot, on one website, is $110.! That is sky-high! Yikes! African Blackwood may be just as high or near it. I'll have to look into it.
Getting a leg up, on some honing.[emoji4]
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Wow, looking better Mike! :tu
..........your ankle.
A bunch of swelling is gone, but it doesn't feel any better. It finally started bruising up this morning. There's a constant burning sensation from my ankle, half way up the side of my calf. Can't put any weight on it, to speak of, without that hot iron feel on my leg. I think there's more going on in there, than was seen in xrays. I heard and felt something pop/crack when I went down. Time will tell, I've done worse to the left, a mirical It works OK.
cant over strop, may be you can under strop, but you can strop badly Tc
