Thread: What are you working on?

Glued wedge, yet to ajust

Made progress on the Hargreaves, Smith & Co. restoration. Here I have the brass wedge ready to be shaped, I made brass collars from tubing using a jig, shaped and polished the horn scales by hand, and hand sanded the blade to 2000 grit (dry) in preparation of putting a satin finish on it...

Later I went back and added the satin finish and polished the spine and tang...

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Made progress on the Hargreaves, Smith & Co. restoration. Here I have the brass wedge ready to be shaped, I made brass collars from tubing using a jig, shaped and polished the horn scales by hand, and hand sanded the blade to 2000 grit (dry) in preparation of putting a satin finish on it...

Later I went back and added the satin finish and polished the spine and tang...

Very nice work. Digging the satin finish.
What grit did you do the satin finish with?
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That satin finish makes the blade time correct in my opinion, well done.

Originally Posted by Phil129

Very nice work. Digging the satin finish.
What grit did you do the satin finish with?
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I basically followed advice from this thread http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...in-finish.html
After reaching a good smooth reflection at 2000 grit I worked backward, dry, 1500, 1000, 800 one direction carefully with a small leather backer. Once to 800 I gave a couple firm passes dry, then follow with a couple lightly oiled 800 grit passes. After that I jumped back up to 2000 oiled to soften and glow. I often have to redo when doing this because it's easy to get some lines crooked.

Hat's off. Splendid outcome!

I got a couple more Felt Pads for a good price since each had a broken scale (2 separate auctions). I had the one already with a broken scale & then one popped up with the opposite scale broken so I made an offer & they accepted. The pin holding the felt in closest the pivot acts as a third pin also. I discovered that when I realized the wedges are shaped differently to accommodate for the felt but forgot to mention it on Show & Tell. I took 'em apart & it looks like the pin holes match perfectly. If it is off any, I'll just block the hole up & re-drill it.



This pic shows how they cut the scale out for the felt.


One blade says Felt Pad on the front side & the other says Twinplex like the DE razor strops. I think I had seen their name on some conventional strops before but I don't think I ever saw a Twinplex razor.
Stay tuned........

BTW, great work Thaeris, mercer, Outback & xiaotuzi!

Felt pad razor, very interesting concept,patented in 1905, antiseptic oil or parmoline soaked pads to keep the razor clean etc. Wonder if their claim really worked.

Huh, I wonder where I can find a nickel plated oiler filled with Parmoline. What is Parmoline, by the way?

Thanks for the ads Martin103!

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Huh, I wonder where I can find a nickel plated oiler filled with Parmoline. What is Parmoline, by the way?

Thanks for the ads Martin103!

Found this on Parmoline.