Thread: What are you working on?

Nice work Richard :

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!!!

Originally Posted by engine46

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

Originally Posted by Geezer

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. :

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.

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.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Richard, nice postings. :...snip...
As I stated when I started my thread about my variable speed buffer I wanted the 'help' that a buffer could provide.
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.

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

Originally Posted by guitstik

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.

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



Hmmmm I just did it again.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

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



Hmmmm I just did it again.

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 because for some reason the computer won't take them now even tho it used to. The gadgets are conspiring against me.

Originally Posted by guitstik

...snip... 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 because for some reason the computer won't take them now even tho it used to. The gadgets are conspiring against me.

My flip-phone just lets me email the photos to my computer and then I open the emails and process from there. There was a cord but i also lost the software to download directly.
Luddite I am also!
~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

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

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?

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!

Thanks for any help. It is truly appreciated.