Thread: What are you working on?

Nice one!
You know, I think it's about time for you to make a tutorial video I gotta learn some tricks to speed up my game..

Some day Mike.
Next up on the bench. Replacing a broken scale on the Crown & Sword, and making brush for a lost, but found again friend, and a couple for two new guys to the forum.

Agree with everyone, very nice restoration Outback, no need to mess with something that as work so well for so many years.

Originally Posted by outback

Finished cleaning up the blade, collars, and scales to the W&B.
All done by hand, no power equipment. The only things used were, Never Dull, steel wool ( 1 1/2 pads 000 ), Emory compound, and Cr/Ox.

Some of the tiny repairs to the scales didn't hold, so I left them for character, and to better fit with the condition of the blade.
( nice...but not perfect

Before


After

What did you use for the stamp. Looks like the sharpie trick.

Now that I have a bit more spare time available, I managed to spend some time sanding down this Joseph Rodgers & Sons.

Went through the various grits 360/400/600/800/1000/1200 & 1500 this afternoon but not really happy with the outcome as there are still quite a number of marks on the face of the blade and tang. I suppose I'll have to go back to the 360 grit to remove those spots/blemishes before progressing again unless anyone has some suggestions.

That turned out nice Tony. I like to remove any rust like you did yet leave it looking old. I hate it when I see someone think they can restore something by polishing & buffing on it to the point where it rounds the edges of the lettering & makes any pitting look worse. I have respect for those who can do a restore the right way but many people these days ruin some good blades & people buy them up not knowing the seller who restored it did more un-reversible damage to it. I can't wait to see it finished.

Originally Posted by TrilliumLT

What did you use for the stamp. Looks like the sharpie trick.

Black enamel touch up paint.
Apply, dry, cut off excess with DE razor blade.

Good to see you guys working away. I cannot find time these days.

Keep em coming!

I have a pile of Joseph Rodgers snurdler-fodder enroute. 2 of them look Like the handles are separated at the hilts.
Hopefully I can save them.



Also, cleaning and slathering some German razors (Don't tell Hirlau!) and discovered the yellow Red-Point is from Utica! It's going in with it's American Brothers now..

Well I've got my new air compressor broken in. After adding the oil, I ran it with the drain open and a nipple plugged in so that the pressure couldn't build and the pump could just run without any stress. I ran it for 1/2 an hour, then let it sit for 1/2 an hour and then repeated. Then I ran it with the drain closed and no nipple in the connector.

I then repeated the above and then have been using it. I figure it's got about 4-5 hours of actual run time so I went ahead and drained the oil and installed a magnet in the drain plug. (I'd planned on installing the magnet before I set it up but hadn't found what I wanted).

Anyway, here's what the drained oil looked like beside a small sample of the oil right out of the container.



I tried to get a pic that showed the 'metallic look' in the oil but couldn't. Makes me wish I'd waited and installed the magnet before I broke it in.

Pinned up the Sperry in some snakewood. Ain't gettin honed for a few weeks though. I'm spending the next few nights packing,then leaving Friday to go live in a tent by a lake in the Adirondacks till i run out of food.