Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by 32t

You started this!

I am just tossing out my thoughts.

If you tell me and can prove I am full of it that is fine.

Nice work and I am sure it will work out fine.

If you are in western and north Texas.....

Yes I did! Go figure. But I appreciate your thoughts! I would never say to you that you are full of it!!! You are always welcome to enlighten me on things. Just so you know, I'm considered to be in South Texas. I'm about 60 south of Austin and about 350 miles north of the mexico border.

Originally Posted by Johntoad57

Yes I did! Go figure. But I appreciate your thoughts! I would never say to you that you are full of it!!! You are always welcome to enlighten me on things. Just so you know, I'm considered to be in South Texas. I'm about 60 south of Austin and about 350 miles north of the mexico border.

Texas is a big state with many varied climates.

Thoughts on razor storage could be very different.

Even if you think that the hygrometer in your case is useless that is cool.

Sort of steam punk............

Tim

Great work Tuzi! Those strops look amazing.

Yes, nice looking strops. Dig the logo work ,nice personal touch.
That case turned out super John. Beauty details and the pieces all look right together.
Well done men.
Me, just getting in from my moms 80th birthday dinner GTG in Burlington.
Was a Greek dinner, ended with ouzo shots to toast the matriarch of the clan.

The first woman I ever loved, still beautiful..my dad was a lucky man.
Cheers gents.

Originally Posted by Johntoad57

Well I don't know what to say about this. However, what's done is done. I am going to have to live with this. If I put anymore holes in it, well that's not an option moving forward. Worst case, I remove the razors from the case and build an open air model. Like I said, I will continually monitor the situation and take appropriate action.

Simple solution, attach a 1" piece of stock along the top so that it angles the case. It will make it easier to look into and solve the up/down vs side-to-side issue

Well...... I tried something I've never tried before last night, and I think it went really, really well.

After spending a bit of time trying to get a bevel set on this H.G. Long & Co. razor, I realised that the damage that was done by the previous owner was too extreme to get past. Whoever owned this razor last, did some honing with the spine raised up. So while I was trying to set the bevel, I noticed that in order to bring the bevel down to the edge, I would have to remove a lot of steel and my bevel would end up being very, very large. This was using 4 layers of tape.



You can see my DMT scratches and the old bevel below it.

So I decided to try my hand at a regrind. At work we have a sharpening machine that sits in the corner and collects dust, and I've always looked at it and thought, bet that would work really well for regrinding old wedges. Here it is.



It has a 9" wheel, that's 2" wide and is water cooled. Perfect for wedge regrinding,but!!! Very, very slow! Which I think is good because then I can really watch what's going on and not let things get away on me too quickly. Here are my results.

Initial 15 mins.



After a half hour.



The final result. After about 2 hours and 2 oz. of Laphroiag Quarter Cask. Really happy with the results. Now to do the other side.

Man. That's cheating..!!
Back to the sanding blocks, for you.!
It really turned out sweet, wished I had one of those grinders. I gotta wedge that needs that done to. [emoji56]

But I do have a plan for it. [emoji6]

Originally Posted by outback

Man. That's cheating..!!
Back to the sanding blocks, for you.!
It really turned out sweet, wished I had one of those grinders. I gotta wedge that needs that done to. [emoji56]

But I do have a plan for it. [emoji6]

I'd do it for you Mike. It was kinda fun, but my back was pretty sore when I finished. Need to raise it up higher so it's at nipple height. Problem is, we still use this for the little grinder at work so I have to take it back tomorrow.

Not sure if I trust myself quite yet on someone elses razor though. I'd hate to screw something up...... I need more practice. That being said, this is ALWAYS a last resort move.

Oh..! its on its last resort.
Almost ready for wind chime duty. I got a descent size wheel, and plenty of greaseless 220, just haven't built my magnetic blade holder yet.

Cool. Sounds like you gotter figured. I'm just grinder happy! Hhaha.