Nice work Richard :bow:
Ya get an 'Atta Boy' from Roy Boy!
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Nice work Richard :bow:
Ya get an 'Atta Boy' from Roy Boy!
Way to go Richard. They look more than fair!!! A big difference than the other day. You did one hell of a job on them!!!
Thank you, I posted to make a point;
The use of hand work is sadly ignored. A so-so TV show is usually long enough to go through one grit series.
Here is what I started with some time back and posted a couple years ago. Most of the things are still in use, even though I have a well equipped shop in my basement.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...storation.html
Have fun!
~Richard
Richard, nice postings. :bow:
As I stated when I started my thread about my variable speed buffer I wanted the 'help' that a buffer could provide.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...-part-one.html
I don't intend to abandon my hand work as the buffer will be used at the End of the Road/so to speak.
I've gotten some really nice complements on my cleaning up of blades and basically all with either hand tools or the help of a palm sander.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the buffer works on some blades that need some work AND after some hand sanding and other work. :tu
Richard, I am envious. Those are gorgeous razors. All I am working on now is trying to find a photo hosting sight so that I can post pictures of the eBay haul that just arrived so that every one here can be envious of me. Photobucket insists on uploading e v e r y s i n g l e p i c t u r e that I have on my phone and I take a lot of pictures for work and such.
Good idea! I find that the two inch hard felt buffs from HF with ¼ hole are great if you have a tapered spindle on the buffer. 6 in a pack for them.
Another good tool, no longer made, is the Dremel straight line sander with the contoured backing shapes. Even the single speed model works well with a router speed control. They are often found on Amazon and the 'Bay
DREMEL VARIABLE SPEED CONTOUR SANDER MODEL 6000
I like to use them with a sanding film and clean it often to keep from widening the etched lettering. Won't help much with a light etch though. It is nice to have a scratch pattern along the blade length to finish with a rotary buff across the blade width.
Nuff thread hi-jack; Mea Culpa!
~Richard
Have you thought about transferring the pictures to a computer and just posting from there??? I make no claim to my intelligence and in fact proudly proclaim myself a 'Mastodon' with computers. With that said, even I can post pictures from my computer and only the pictures that I want to post/not everything on my computer/which is quite a lot of pictures.
Posting from my files on my computer works for me, perhaps it will work for you :shrug:
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Hmmmm I just did it again. :w
To think that from the days of cassette tape programming in which I used to do proficiently to today with the almost limitless computer capacity I have become computer illiterate. Apparently, my smart phone is smarter than I am and I am constantly telling people that they need to be smarter than the tools they work with. I am a Luddite and I know it. It has only been the last three years that I started shooting digital cameras instead of film. To be honest, I still shoot more film than digital. The problem lies in the fact that my wife will not let me call on a friend of ours to come fix my computer so that it will let me load all of the digital pictures I have taken but now CAN'T even get on the computer:banghead: because for some reason the computer won't take them now even tho it used to. The gadgets are conspiring against me.
While my shaft is 1/2" I still wanted to look at what you said were 'Harbor Freight' 2" hard felt wheels for a 1/4" shaft. However I can't find them at HF's site. Any help would be appreciated such as a direct live link? :shrug: :tu
OH! About the difference between a 1/4" and 1/2" shaft and fitting the buffing wheels/never tell an old redneck country boy that it won't work! :nj :nono: :tu
Thanks for any help. It is truly appreciated.