Thread: What are you working on?

Did these a few years ago, top one a Disston D7 filed crosscut, bottom one Disston D8 filed rip, with the cool thumbhole for 2 handed uses.

Well as predicted I was overly busy this summer (way too much overtime, thought my wife was going to kill me)
But my nephew got interested in straight razors after he inherited his grandfathers straight anice WB. He showed it to me and it was in nice condition with just a bit of surface rust, unfortunately some on the edge near the toe but he asked me if I could clean it up and hone it for him. Well that was really the ONLY project I managed to do this summer (well that and paint 2 doors in the house) I can tell you it cleaned up real nice, I didn't remove the scales even. He went back to uni on the 25th and I gave it back to him on the 23rd. Along with a board strop, some williams mug soap/Lord shave cream (he inherited a brush as well) I also bought a GD hoping to hone it and give it to so he could rotate. I was thinking this should be cheap and easy as I already have a GD and never saw the bad stuff people were talking about. Well I learned 2 things.
1: Many people here are wiser than myself
2: I finally understand what people mean when they say the geometry is all off.
Needless to say I didn't get it honed for him, perhaps Ill try again some day. fortunately it wasn't an expensive lesson
Unfortunately I forgot to take after pics but I think you can see from the befores there wasn't too much cleaning up to do

Originally Posted by AlanQ

Well as predicted I was overly busy this summer (way too much overtime, thought my wife was going to kill me)

I finally understand what people mean when they say the geometry is all off.
Needless to say I didn't get it honed for him, perhaps Ill try again some day. fortunately it wasn't an expensive lesson

Cool to have a family heirloom like that, same boat here very busy with life and work and certainly will not spend any time trying to hone a soul-less Gold Dollar.

Originally Posted by Martin103

Cool to have a family heirloom like that, same boat here very busy with life and work and certainly will not spend any time trying to hone a soul-less Gold Dollar.

Like I said I already have a GD and it is fine, seems it really is hit and miss with them.
BTW I did shave test the WB and it was very sweet. I now understand why people like them so much. I have two that I need to get to work on at some point but unfortunately the fall is looking to be even busier for me than the summer was. I am the interim Specialist at work (lots of paper work) while the regular one is on prolonged sick leave and I have a trainee and we are still short staff. One guy finished training a few weeks ago another guy is leaving at the end of the week

Nice restorations on those hand saws Martin!
Good blades are always worth saving.

The gold wash finally dried all the way through on this Blackwood scale so I took some time to sand up the logo with some 1500 grit micromesh.

A bit more sanding to do to pull the surplus gold out of the surrounding wood grain, but not too bad. The details in the sunburst were really close on the original image so I wasn't sure how the wood would hold up to that much focused laser energy in a small area.
Pretty pleased with the depth of detail around the symbol and script.
Cheers.

Martin, nice one on the saws. It is good to see more than razors here.

Mike, that logo is really impressive.

Alan, inexpensive lessons are hard to find.

The image I used was from this razor image, btw.

Found on our very own SRP!
Thanks to the original poster, and owner..
Nice razor..

W.H.Morley & Sons



A light cleanup and hone. Will see how it shaves tonight



Sometimes ebay is good...

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I allow that a good one, Martin! Is there a place to read more of them?

Interestingly Tom, while doing some research today i found this from Packwood, in a newspaper from Philadelphia in 1798.