Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by RezDog

@ cudarunner
That is some pretty evenly translucent horn. I have only had a few blanks that pure in the honey color. Looks great.

There is 'some streaking' to it but the little dark streak is on the back scale and there is only some 'minor streaking' on the front scale..

This has been a frustrating project as it's for a friend who did some work for me in a 'barter trade'.

It's my very first attempt at using horn and it's a big razor.

I took my time and was very careful about the design and laid out and cut out with the two blanks taped together, the holes drilled and ready to be sanded every thing was looking great. I'd mocked everything up and as said once again all looked good.

Once rough sanded down to about .090 I started the final sanding up to 1K I then put the horn in some Neatsfoot Oil over night. When I'd drained the excess oil back into the container I found that the back scale had warped.#%^&^*()&^$*#%^@%^@%!

During the mock up before final sanding the blade sat about 1/8" 'Proud'/above the scales/just like I wanted. However after the warping the blade sits as you can see.

On a positive note/it honed up nice with a very thin edge.

I do hope that the owner will like the work.

Those thing happen. You just have to roll with the punches. I have set of scales that warped so bad they could not be used. I would be happy to get them a blade with the same warp.

Originally Posted by outback

So what's with the 45s

Another project idea on the bench Mike.

Good eye buddy.

I finally got my stabilizing vacuum chamber up and running. I have a really nice piece of buckeye burl sitting in some cactus juice at about 25" mercury. It's going to be my next brush, hopefully another shavemac, but possibly a two band from the Golden nib.

Ok I now have both scales done, I will now have to wait until I get some washers and get my wedge made. I have decided to leave the scales as are unless I run into issues, the wedge hole is off by 1/32" if that. Euclid I tried out some of what the tutorial you shared showed and the scraper tool worked really nicely I used an old scraper that I had laying around and put a burr on it and it just shaved material off like nothing, Thank you for sharing. I have learned a couple things on this go round and I still have a set of bone scales to make so I will apply my errors to those and see what I can get done there. Thanks for all the help gents and critiques makes me want to do better the next time around

Washer issue solved, found a die kit, brass shim stock and a #51 drill bit and a bit of patience. Stamping 1/8" OD brass washers and maybe a few 3/16 OD. Gotta love slow nights

Simplest cheap scraper is one scis of a scissors. Regular right handed is pull toward you and lefty is push away from you. This is a right handed pull toward you...and in use for 30+ years. This is used in the right hand like a knife whittling toward your thumb but the blade is held almost perpendicular to the surface being scraped.

They remove a lot of material quickly and if they are honed and burred properly, 1K+ grit, they leave a very fine finis, indeed.
~Richard

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Only thing stable about me will be my wood, soon enough..
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Pulling over 28" of vacuum off a robesonair 6cfm pump.
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Foaming like a salty beer. Should work out well.
Cheers..

I just did the same thing, but with a hand brake bleeder pump from harbor freight. I can max out at around 25". What stabilizer did you use?

Originally Posted by Geezer

Simplest cheap scraper is one scis of a scissors. Regular right handed is pull toward you and lefty is push away from you. This is a right handed pull toward you...and in use for 30+ years. This is used in the right hand like a knife whittling toward your thumb but the blade is held almost perpendicular to the surface being scraped.

They remove a lot of material quickly and if they are honed and burred properly, 1K+ grit, they leave a very fine finis, indeed.
~Richard

That's genius ! I'm gonna keep my eye out for scissors now. Paint scraper worked well enough something with more back bone would have been better though.

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The stuff I am trying, which comes with catalyst, is called stik fast. Very thin viscosity stuff.
Heat cured at 200f for up to an hr after vacuum.
The first three, except on the bottom, still feel like wood, only hard again, not all spongy.
Should work well with the resin and pressure pot.
Did my first test with said pressure pot tonight and have this little left over nugget to show while the main blank cures still.

Used a red dye and a touch of copper dust for depth.

Will hopefully have a neat alternative material supply when all this testing is completed.
Cheers.