Looks great Pete! It's fun to work with wild shapes. Also, I'm a fan of double pins they look cool, and they're hard to do right. IMO.
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Looks great Pete! It's fun to work with wild shapes. Also, I'm a fan of double pins they look cool, and they're hard to do right. IMO.
Update on the Reaper re-scale...
My bog oak is out of reach atm and so a brother of the blade from far up north is sending me blanks. Awesome! Im very thankful for that generosity!
And so while I wait I'll be preparing the blade, though it is in great shape, it will take some hours of hand sanding to get perfect.
I'm also ordering a rough piece of gemstone to cut down for a wedge. Hopefully get a blood red look.
The trick with translucent "colored" wedges is that it will not necessarily be the same shade once pinned with scales covering most the surface area.. And so less light shining through.
So I'm picking the material a bit lighter shade to achieve proper color.
So far it's been a hard search. My criteria:
-Red
-Natural untreated (I collect gemstones and have always prefered this).
-Proper size.
-Not to expensive.
I have a nice tile cutter at work and a buddy who is a jeweler says he'll polish it smooth for me on his fancy jeweler equipment.
Sounds crazy I know, it's just a real special project for me, so I wanna go all out.
I am interested to follow your build and see what stone you use.
My first thoughts are coral or jasper.
Those are two of the top contenders, and what I know I can get just in case I can't get the others.
I keep getting drawn in to Garnet and Ruby. But ruby would be too expensive for the clarity I want.
In no order:
Jasper, Red tourmaline, Carnelian, Rubellite Tourmaline, Rhodolite Garnet, Pyrope Garnet, also maybe agate.
I'm sure there must be others.
This does sound interesting.
I'm looking forward to seeing how you do the final fit of the wedge and how you drill the hole for the pin.
I did a blue acrylic translucent wedge in white camel bone scales once. You are correct about it transmitting the light. Unless you hold it up to a light, it basically looks balck.
Good luck and keep us posted.
Pete <:-}
If it doesn't work out for ya Mike, I got some of this.
Don't remember what its called, Engine46 sent it to me for wedges. Blood red turquoise, is what it reminds me of.
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~~~~~Hey guys, that's it for me right now. Talk to you all next year!~~~~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmcW7ktzBM
That has an excellent color, thank you I'll put it on the list of runners up. Is that a stone or plastic?
Pete's confirmation on the dimming helped me realize I've been looking at too dark of shades. And so if I go translucent then I need to pick a much lighter shade.
To see a fun wedge you would need clear scales and no bolsters.
Maybe 2% of the wedge is visible.
I have some fun copper in a red matrix from the UP that you would never see the copper.
Translucent poly carbonate hit the top of my list of east items to find and work with. Although if you are trying to hit it out of the park, it’s not fancy. It is functional and will show well. I am not sure about nesting a nice rock where it catches no light. I’m thinking you will not get much effect for your buck. You will know it’s there and it will forever be your razor.
Happy new year men!
May the next be better than the last!
Health and happiness I wish for you all.
Happy New Year gents!
Been awhile since I could actually do some heavier restoration work. And when I did it was outside, with a buncha people looking at me weird. You don't see guys grinding on an apartment blacony all that often. Since I bought a house in May (my first), I have a 2.5 car garage to work in ��
Have a Eric Anton Berg blade that needed some new shoes. Got the scales cut out and ready for some closer shaping later today/tomorrow.
A neat yarn about this blade. Met a nice lady at an antique expo in town, turns out she was selling her grandmother's (God rest her soul) hoarde collection. But she never hoarded garbage, she hoarded anything but and good quality. Couldn't say nuffin' bout the jewlery (a metric ton) but had a number of great blade. Walked away with a couple from Sweden, a Frederick Reynolds (i think...) and a solid Genco, for $75. Told her she was low (I suck at haggling and don't like to totally swindle folk). She said fine 80.
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Gotta get some thicker work gloves so my hands don't freeze after 20 min.
Nice looking blade! What's the scale material ?
Working still on a little logo project.
For a fellow member so I want it perfect.
Started thinking I’d use the lasermatic, which is great for inlay pocketing on synthetic substrates, but not so much on horn for gold inlay work I think.
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So dust off the engraving rig and give that a go,
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Much cleaner lines with a micro V bit I think.
Almost ready to hit the main event..
Cheers.
I wonder who that could be for. Lol. Nice job. Fancy tools. Id have to use a knife and carve it.
Thanks Jerry, but the tools are home built kits(unfancy) to replace the shaky hands that used to be able to carve and such, hehe.
Although to be honest, I was never this good by hand,,,
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I had a fun road trip today and visited Geezer. I had some lead blocks that the shipping would have been prohibitive so a good excuse for a Sunday drive on a cold day.
In exchange he gave me some barber hones and this knot for a brush.
A good reason the finish the project started about 2 years ago in Iowa. Skipnord was giving a demo about turning and to make a long story short I saved a piece of wood from the firewood we were using and we, mostly he, made this handle
About time I finish this project!
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I had to put a paper towel under it because the oak blended so much with the kitchen table.:D
Any of you guys need any cigar boxes? If anyone is interested I'll post pictures. Wanted to use them, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Cigar boxes? I love cigar boxes! Virtually any kind of box I like.
But my wife has limited the number of boxes I'm allowed..
Lol
But honestly, I have a bunch of them in storage and plan on getting more at some point when I have my own space..
I would love to convert some cigar boxes to somewhat air-tight straight razor boxes... 7 day sets..
The projects are piled up waiting for the kids to head off to boarding school!
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Had similar plans, but I'm not going to have the time or workspace in the near future.
Cigar boxes are wicked organization tools. They are also super easy to recover and put dividers in. Unfortunately the cost of mailing them to me would be ridiculous.
Michael's crafts has some decent wood boxes that could be set up easily. They have strip wood, and balsa etc. I like.the cigar "motiff" better. But it could work.
Indeed, I have bought those from Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and JoAnn's. Sometimes just for the hinges and latch!
I tend to like cigar boxes. The designs and logos, often cool construction... AND can be had for dirt cheap at cigar shops.
If decked out on the inside like a luxury apartment for razors..
I wonder if you broke down cigar boxes how many of them would fit inside another one.:shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by RezDog
Yes that seems the only way to do it economically.
The cost of cigar boxes at cigar shops (often a large stack of empty ones) is less than postage for each box.
I used this cigar box for years as my primary razor storage: with 2 trays of 10, it holds all but the largest razors. Now that I've installed my razor cabinet, I'm saving it for overflow, odds and uglies, whatever I don't have room for in the cabinet.
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It's not as fancy as some of your custom-made velvet-lined boxes, and certainly not secure enough for transport, but it serves the purpose.
Nice dividers in that cigar box Aaron. Tom, i know what ya mean on the wood boxes from the craft stores. A set of hinges and a latch cost more than those cheap pine boxes. And some of them are detailed. I have a couple of those pine boxes. Just to hold little things. The price is hard to beat.
As far as cigar boxes, i used to be a pipe smoker. And my wife would make the trip to the shop with me just to buy a new box. I think the top of the coat closet is full of them still.
That is exactly what I wanted to do! How did you get the dividers in place without a mess?Quote:
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I like balsa for some projects, maybe the dividers would be easy with that?
At the craft store you can buy it in many sizes. A sheet, trace out the right size, and cut with a razor knife. Then wood glue, maybe follow with a little finish?
Balsa is really easy to work with, no serious tools needed.
Just an idea. There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Are we allowed to say that anymore?
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You can still say bad things about cats, just don’t mention bad things to dogs, especially dogs of mixed or non specific breeding found on reservations.
Balsa and basswood in different sizes/lengths from the craft stores are a godsend for me. Hot glue gun! ;)
No reasonably strong wood softer than balsa, I think? Strong enough, but soft at the same time.
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Oh...Skinning cats. I often wondered just who would want to skin a cat? :thinking:
I think it was PETA throwing a fit larely about terms people us about animals. Some people will find something wrong with about anything you say. Im a cat lover but i still use that saying. So whats the issue PETA?
If it makes you cat lovers feel any better, according to google the origin of the phrase may refer to a gymnastics move or a catfish. Of course there are also instructions on how to skin a cat, so don't look it up if your squeamish.
The Vietnamese consider it a delicacy, at one time.
Just boil and peel, like a tomato
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~Richard
Construction machinery drivers have been called Cat skinners.
~Richard
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Tom a dog of mixed or non-specific breeding from reservations are rezdogs and there will be no talk of skinning rezdog. Talk of skinning cats, I suppose, but I don’t know any way to do that.
Thanks Rez, that have me a good laugh.
Me and my buddy ate cats and dogs for years before we found out that is what was being served. When I found out, the variance in flavors and textures on different days all made sense!
His wife's mom was Chinese and didn't think to ask or mention, and we assumed it was chicken or venison.
She said that their modo is that if it's back is to the sun, you can eat it.
But it is a strange idea, to eat something, that I've had close friends who were that particular species.
Strange world it is.
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