Thread: What are you working on?

That would be sweet. It will bleach out in hours instead of days.

Originally Posted by outback

Honed this little puppy up tonight. Gonna give it a whirl in the morn.
Have a feeling the guard is gonna make it a PITA with goat & stache, but what the heck, not too many of ya out there can say they've ever shaved with one.

"SAFTEY RAZOR".....phhhhit !!
Probably cut the living hell out of myself with that damn guard in the way..Har!

Just need to master the "Sliding Diagonal Stroke" they advertised in the Curley advertisement! Sounds like scary fun, good luck!

Originally Posted by RezDog

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A sad story. I lost or misplaced my little camera and I am stuck with my cell phone for pictures.
I am trying to recreate these old scales that are on the left. Bone is a little weird to carve.
It has grain but it is really hard to see.

That is some excellent work on those scales! They are looking terrific, the time and attention to detail is outstanding. Nice Job!

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Just need to master the "Sliding Diagonal Stroke" they advertised in the Curley advertisement! Sounds like scary fun, good luck!

Already do that with a normal straight.
More like up the neck (ATG) till under the jaw, then turn and go over the jaw bone towards the chin. All without lifting the blade. A crescent like pass, or Nike swoop.

Going to remove some hardware variety blades from these cool German-silver (I think?) scales and install a few Henckels blades. The 66 is obviously busted at the tip and square-pointing it at the break should put it perfect for these scales. The #18 might make it, but perhaps a tiny bit off the end.



I Attribute these scales to CF Ern from his American days as they are ringers for the 'Ern Jr' and similar 'Zepp' scales he made in New York back in the day. They have a little 'detent' as the razor is closed which keeps the blade from coming out. neat scales!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Going to remove some hardware variety blades from these cool German-silver (I think?) scales and install a few Henckels blades. The 66 is obviously busted at the tip and square-pointing it at the break should put it perfect for these scales. The #18 might make it, but perhaps a tiny bit off the end.



I Attribute these scales to CF Ern from his American days as they are ringers for the 'Ern Jr' and similar 'Zepp' scales he made in New York back in the day. They have a little 'detent' as the razor is closed which keeps the blade from coming out. neat scales!

Very neat Tom, remember researching these interesting scales, definitely from C. Friedrich Ern.


Will be interesting to see your progress on these.

Is there anything NOT cool in Texas????
Except the weather that is.

Dang you got some amazing curio's Tom!!!

The puma scales

Strange how the smoke from this particular material, created as the laser did its thing, seemed to etch the surrounding material more so than on my previous laser inlay projects.
Will see if I can clean it up some with some 1200 w/d sandpaper.
Overall though, I like the depth of recess, no edge catching on the inlay.

Curios is a good word Mike!

Started in on the 66, marked the blade for surgery



Turned-up nice. A bit of sanding and buffing on the grob to go. A spike-point Henckels! Makes me shudder!



Test fit looks good!



I was a bit worried that the scales were plated, but some buffer confirmed the old German silver through and through.
They were originally nutsy-boltsied at the pivot. We all know how that goes!
AjKenne's collars fit right in there!



So a bit of sanding, buffing on the spine, grob, and tang. More on the scales.
Then to pin this puppy up!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

The puma scales

Strange how the smoke from this particular material, created as the laser did its thing, seemed to etch the surrounding material more so than on my previous laser inlay projects.
Will see if I can clean it up some with some 1200 w/d sandpaper.
Overall though, I like the depth of recess, no edge catching on the inlay.

Looks splendid, Mike!