Thread: What are you working on?

Nice blade bud!!!! Great work!

Pardon me, I should have read Rezdogs post. Forget the ebony and carry on.

Originally Posted by Cheferik

Nice blade bud!!!! Great work!

Thanks chef

Originally Posted by RezDog

I often wonder how the got the dye to penetrate so deep into the horn. It has to be a combination of heat and pressure. Pressure cooker?

Nahh., just nasty chemicals

From the cyclopedia of dyeing:

"Red is begun by boiling it in alum-water, then with verdigris, ammoniac, and finished by decoction in a liquor compounded of quicklime steeped in rain-water, strained, and to every pint an ounce of Brazil-wood added. In this decoction the horns are to be boiled till sufficiently red.

Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003

Black walnut left out in the sun for the summer, Kiwi black shoe polish, and leave it outside for the Midwest winter. Or what Outback says.

Well I'm trying to duplicate this.

Just haven't decided which wood.
Top-bottom
Walnut, teak, or birdseye maple.

Probably walnut or teak.
The birdseye would look good on another blade, all clean and fresh.

I thought that perhaps this might be of some help to those just starting out with pinning and wanting some 'fancy' washers'.

A while back I purchased some Stainless Steel washers from Micro Fasteners and they arrived with a very plain (almost black) finish on them. I tried to polish them up by hand with some Mothers but that was going no where so here's what I ended up doing. While I used my homemade buffer this could be done with a hand held drill and a small cloth wheel.

Here's the washers before and after (yes I'd domed them but this works with flat washers as well)



Here's how I could apply the washer to the buffer. (I used 600 grit greaseless followed by CrOx.)

I used a tapered 1/16" punch and kept my thumbnail under the washer so it was free to spin.





I hope this is of some help.

NOTE:
I should have posted that even some Bar Keepers Friend or something similar on a cloth wheel would work to remove the 'dark' from the washers and that applying Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish to a clean wheel should provide similar results.

Sorry for not including this originally, :

Couldn't you polish them up once you have them pinned?

So far Ive always given my restores a final polish once I have them all done. Cleans up my brass after I get done banging on it.

And with my meat hooks for hands, holding tiny washers is a challenge like no other...

Originally Posted by Suticat

Couldn't you polish them up once you have them pinned?

So far Ive always given my restores a final polish once I have them all done. Cleans up my brass after I get done banging on it.

And with my meat hooks for hands, holding tiny washers is a challenge like no other...

You do get a better polish if you clean your collars before you assemble and then polish everything together after it is assembled. There is always that little bit right under the edge of the pin that I can still see if you don't do it twice.

A bottle of Elijah Craig.
Reminiscent of Wild Turkey, but smoother. Plus a couple razors. A Genco,Registered.
And seeing if I can repair the scales for a Joseph Allen & Sons, NON- XLL.

Your pic of that Elijah Craig just gave me an incredible thirst outback. Now where did I stash that old jug of 101?