Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by MW76

Many things this weekend. Ground 2 blades, polished another. Fixed up the horn scales from Tom, got a couple coats of button lac on the snakewood scales, trying CA for the first time on the ziricote w/liners.. now I'm brewing again. Back to razors this afternoon.

Work is the elixir of life.

Get it on Matt, high output and a new blade each day is the elixer. [emoji6]

Henry Ford said, "You can buy his cars in any color you want as long as it's black."

Some of us are tired of black scales, jazz 'em up a little bit!

I suppose that as it comes to old black horn on old blades, black is prerequisite!

Love the stuff!

One of the things that surprised me was when I cleaned up a set of old black horn scales, inly to discover that they were really nice streaked scales that were dyed black. Apparently once upon a time the very lovely streaked scales were bleached and dyed to make them uniform black to suit the fashion of the day. I so prefer the multi color and streaked horn. I cannot imagine going through the effort to do such a thing.

Got two cleaned up and honed , and another started yesterday.

Originally Posted by outback

Got two cleaned up and honed , and another started yesterday.

Nice job darkening the etch on that frame back

Nothing but a little paint and a scrape with razor blade.

Originally Posted by mrsell63

Henry Ford said, "You can buy his cars in any color you want as long as it's black."

Some of us are tired of black scales, jazz 'em up a little bit!

I have 2 John barbers in the mail. I am planning on making black horn scales with a ivory inlay of there trademark.

What I'd like to be doing....



What I'm actually doing....

Ziricote scales are buffed out. CA finish.





I used Maas for the final polish and some Renwax. Gssixgun had an old CA tutorial i found pretty handy!

Ok now back to sanding the Wadsworth.. 2 grits to go.