Thread: What are you working on?

Really easy clean up on a D.H. Lory 'Gibraltor'..

Crox on the blade, sanded down the scales.. Polished. In cue for the stones..

Pre shots






After Crox and sanding the scales



Polished


Who knows when i will hone it.. been working too many hours to make plans.

Interesting and it really looks likely! Gonna take a lot of 1k, I think?
Is not the island named Gibraltar with an 'a'? Perhaps I am wrong?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Interesting and it really looks likely! Gonna take a lot of 1k, I think?
Is not the island named Gibraltar with an 'a'? Perhaps I am wrong?

Ill have to breadknife it. There are quite a few small chips in the bevel.. no deeper then the bevel itself though. Ive been using the 100k carborundum oilstone i got a few weeks back for this. Should make short work of it.

Im really wondering if these were original scales. Im thinking no. They are also pinned tighter then any razor ive ever opened.

Might put some custom scales on if it hones up nice.

Yeah i just looked up this spelling and it aint the rock. Hmm.. a curiosity.

Ah, leave it alone and shave with it!

We Americans poke fun at the Japanese for misspells back in the day. Seems we were no better.
OR someone else was using the proper spelling!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Ah, leave it alone and shave with it!

Yeah i will.. im just looking for an excuse to make a set of scales. Been a while...

Originally Posted by MW76

Yeah i will.. im just looking for an excuse to make a set of scales. Been a while...

Hell.. I can send ya a blade, if yer watin ta make scales ferim.

Everyone knows I don't make scales! A bad influence, me!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Everyone knows i don't make scales! A bad influence, me!

Har!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by outback

Hell.. I can send ya a blade, if yer watin ta make scales ferim.

Well bless your heart. I might take you up on that if get desperate.

I got these waiting for work. Do they looked cracked enough to warrant a replacement?

Just say yes.

Cleaned up a Solingen made Garantie #25, 5/8ths. With a unusual barbers notch.
Had to take it to the 600 greaseless, then 600 greaseless with WD 40, to emery w/ WD 40, to scotchbrite wheel on dremmel with cr/ox, to cr/ox on felt wheel. Some one tried cleaning it up with a brick I believe. Sorry no before pics, they were on my other phone that went thru the washer. But I do have one, but you can't see how bad it was.


Bottom razor

The scales are wood, and didn't match each other. So I made them even in shape and thickness, and put one of many to come coats of tru-oil on them.
Not sure what type of wood they are, but very tight grain, strong, and dark in color. They were painted black, as seen in pic. Here's the blade after the work done.