Thread: What are you working on?

When it's all honed up I bet it will look so cool with that bevel gleaming like a mirror next to that blued blade face.

Unfortunately I'm already sipping whiskey, or it would be on the hones already. I'll pull out the good camera for a photo session tomorrow after its honed. Should be a fun shave, I have about 3 months of beard to remove!

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Originally Posted by prodigy

Unfortunately I'm already sipping whiskey, or it would be on the hones already. I'll pull out the good camera for a photo session tomorrow after its honed. Should be a fun shave, I have about 3 months of beard to remove!

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I Wouldn,t Say There Is Anything Unfortunate About That,,, That Was One Heck Of An Accomplishment,, i Would Be Walkin Around Saying,,, Would Ya Just Look At That!!!!!!!!!!!!Ty

Originally Posted by Addison

I Wouldn,t Say There Is Anything Unfortunate About That,,, That Was One Heck Of An Accomplishment,, i Would Be Walkin Around Saying,,, Would Ya Just Look At That!!!!!!!!!!!!Ty

Thanks. It's always nice when restores turn out better than planned. Especially when so many cause hours of frustration.

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Originally Posted by Addison

I Wouldn,t Say There Is Anything Unfortunate About That,,, That Was One Heck Of An Accomplishment,, i Would Be Walkin Around Saying,,, Would Ya Just Look At That!!!!!!!!!!!!Ty

I mean would ya just look at it?! Lol love that guy.

So New Years Day i went hunting in the wild and came back with about 6 blades. This was the worst of them, so i decided to fix her up first. Its a Johan Engstrom in some wood scales. I refuse to believe the wood scales were original.. it would be cool if i was wrong, but i feel like someone did a resto on this somewhere along the way. Well i figured id work with what i had.

She didnt look pretty the day we met.



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Took her down and sanded the heck out of the scales.



Blade got steel wooled, then sunk in evaporust for a about 2 days, then i used Crox on a felt wheel and Maas by hand to buff the blade up. The patina is still very evident.



There was a small crack in the wood across the pivot pin hole so i decided to throw some liners on there. Bonded using T88 epoxy with a CA finished black vulcanized fabric.



Profiled and sanded down to about 2mm.



Cleaned up the wood looked alot different. Can anyone ID this wood? I was guessing Ash.



Pinned up.. I did a soak on the scales with Danish Oil then after a few days threw some Howards on them for about 30 minutes then buffed out with Minwax.





When's the next Tarnished Tuesday?

Thanks for looking gents. This was a fun one to work on. She's a beater thats for sure but i needed something to play with on some new hones. Some of the most beat up looking blades i have actually have the nicest edges since i experiment with them the most. This razor has a date with my some Jnats.

Very cool!
In retrospect, you did the perfect job!

Thanks bud.

Nice job on that razor Matt! It's cool that somebody long ago likely took the time to make those replacement scales and you were able to save their work and bring that back nicely. I've got some razors that I've done that, in 100 years if they are rusty crusties, I hope someone treats them as well.

I agree. The iron nail pin job, I have not tried yet! Let history be, so to speak.
What else could he have done? Wind chimes?
Sanding the profile of the scales was done right!
Let's see you get a bevel on, Matt.
Looks to be a fun one!