Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

There it is. Plain-Jane!

Plain Jane...!!!
Phhhh. You don't want it..?
I'll be glad to give it a home, and little brother to play with... Har!!

HAR! I posted it a long time ago and someone remarked how he saw Jimi Hendrix in there!

Old 'end of day' celluloid. At the end of the day, all colors were used-up to create this type of scale.
Someone took the term literally on these, it seems! Really old, from the 30's, I think.

That's funny. Use to work in a plastics shop,that made stuff for Rubbermaid. At the end of certain runs of production, we would mix other colored resin pellets together, and run a batch for the people in the shop and ourselves as well.

Ohh the 80's. Har!!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Bevel looks sweet, Phil! Should be a winner!
If you ever need them, I have the old slick-blacks off of mine. You are welcome to them IF you won't bust them!

Thanks sharptonn. I'll keep that offer in mind and I'll do my best[emoji1]

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Originally Posted by outback

That's funny. Use to work in a plastics shop,that made stuff for Rubbermaid. At the end of certain runs of production, we would mix other colored resin pellets together, and run a batch for the people in the shop and ourselves as well.

Ohh the 80's. Har!!

Got pics?
and some filler at the bottom

Originally Posted by RezDog

Got pics?
and some filler at the bottom

Sorry..cell phones didn't have cameras back then and they wouldn't fit in your pocket either.

Honed these two up this morning.. had to get some razor activities in before a very busy weekend. Took me 2 hours to reset both bevels and go through 12k. I was very pleased.



Now.. my cousin is gettin hitched this afternoon so it's time to go suit up and tie one on with the family.

Safe weekend all..

Finished pinning up the 5072.

Ended up having to add a third pin otherwise the bottom of the tang clipped the scale and kept the razor from sitting in proper.
I have these down to .85 thick so rather than go thinner I opted for the third pin and exact spacer in between to bend the wood to my will, lol. They have a nice curve to them now and I like the scale flow.

She closes just as I'd like now and turned out fairly well.


For the sake of the shave, and because of how thinly ground these blades are, I was fairly limited as to how much sanding I could do to the blade and settled for a satin esk cleaning up of the crud that had bit her face over the years. Decided to remove the goldwash from inside the stamps, t'was a bit to much...
Treated with renwax on both scales and blade, and buffed up nicely save for all the lint!
Laser helped restore what wasn't there in the first place or was worn off from clean up without looking brand new or tacky, IMO.
To the stones!!
Look forward to the test shave.

Looks awesome Mike.
Great save and work.
And that blackwood will go a lot thinner, and retain its strength.

Thinner than a Popsicle stick.

That looks awesome, it came out really nice. Love the color of the wood with the design on there. I guess this is as good of time as any to ask, what's in between the scales on the third pin? I have wanted to try a third pin at times for the reason you stated above - "bend the wood to your will" - but haven't yet done so. I was thinking of using brass tubing on the pin part between scales just because that's what I have on hand.