Can I get a "AMEN"!!! brother
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Can I get a "AMEN"!!! brother
If the first time you open your tru oil before you do anything else, you wipe the threads and the cap with vaseline any goop you get on there will wipe off easily with a paper towel when you are done, a touch more vaseline before you put the lid back on and your problem is solved.
Now why didn't I think of that..?Quote:
Originally Posted by RezDog
Thanks Rez
Yeah, those caps suck. I take them out to the spinning stiff wire brush and buzz the outer cap off one side so I can peel it off.
Lots safer than a utility knife, FME.
Oh! AMEN, outback! :)
No Utility Knives used here my friend! Just cut the sides up to the top a couple of times and the innards fell out. However it was a very expensive tool to use, but Safety First!Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
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$4.00 Harbor Freight
AMEN MG Mike!Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Got up early this morning so I could get this finished today.
Cleaned up the blade, flattened the scales, polish the collars, make new under collars (others were shot) by doming SS washers, polish the scales and reassemble. Only thing left..is a honing, and a shave tomorrow morning.Attachment 233998Attachment 233999Attachment 234000Attachment 234001Attachment 234002Attachment 234003Attachment 234004Attachment 234005Attachment 234006Attachment 234007
Sweet lookin blade!!
A real beauty, outback. Not overdone, just right! :cool:
+1,, just right!Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
:tu.
Well I did think about getting some black hair dye, and dyeing the scales.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
But decided....NOPE!!! just want to clean it up, and keep her lookin old, but perty for her age
Thanks Mike
Very nicely done indeed, Outback
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Thanks Martin
Great work Mike. Like Tom said, just the right amount of restoration.
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That's funny from my perspective, I keep ding experiments to try and figure out how I can make new scales look like the old ones. Ideally I would like perfect but aged scales and a perfect grey/black patina with no black rust or pitting. I have one that is a perfect example, and now I want to make some look like the old razors once they have been cleaned. I can get the blade looking old but not the scales.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Thanks Andrew.Quote:
Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY
You should make some jelly with that blackberry. Your killing me...[emoji38]
Should we tell Martin how to remove his add. [emoji1]
That's my next project.Quote:
Originally Posted by RezDog
If all goes well, I'll fill ya in on how.
At least with wood. [emoji6]
Black walnut left out in the sun for the summer, Kiwi black shoe polish, and leave it outside for the Midwest winter. Or what Outback says.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Just use ebony... way easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003
Nice blade bud!!!! Great work!
Pardon me, I should have read Rezdogs post. Forget the ebony and carry on. :beer2:
Thanks chefQuote:
Originally Posted by Cheferik
Nahh., just nasty chemicals :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RezDog
From the cyclopedia of dyeing:
"Red is begun by boiling it in alum-water, then with verdigris, ammoniac, and finished by decoction in a liquor compounded of quicklime steeped in rain-water, strained, and to every pint an ounce of Brazil-wood added. In this decoction the horns are to be boiled till sufficiently red.
Well I'm trying to duplicate this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003
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Just haven't decided which wood.
Top-bottom
Walnut, teak, or birdseye maple.
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Probably walnut or teak.
The birdseye would look good on another blade, all clean and fresh.
I thought that perhaps this might be of some help to those just starting out with pinning and wanting some 'fancy' washers'.
A while back I purchased some Stainless Steel washers from Micro Fasteners and they arrived with a very plain (almost black) finish on them. I tried to polish them up by hand with some Mothers but that was going no where so here's what I ended up doing. While I used my homemade buffer this could be done with a hand held drill and a small cloth wheel.
Here's the washers before and after (yes I'd domed them but this works with flat washers as well)
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Here's how I could apply the washer to the buffer. (I used 600 grit greaseless followed by CrOx.)
I used a tapered 1/16" punch and kept my thumbnail under the washer so it was free to spin.
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I hope this is of some help. :shrug:
NOTE:
I should have posted that even some Bar Keepers Friend or something similar on a cloth wheel would work to remove the 'dark' from the washers and that applying Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish to a clean wheel should provide similar results.
Sorry for not including this originally, :bow:
Couldn't you polish them up once you have them pinned?
So far Ive always given my restores a final polish once I have them all done. Cleans up my brass after I get done banging on it.
And with my meat hooks for hands, holding tiny washers is a challenge like no other...
You do get a better polish if you clean your collars before you assemble and then polish everything together after it is assembled. There is always that little bit right under the edge of the pin that I can still see if you don't do it twice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Suticat
A bottle of Elijah Craig.
Reminiscent of Wild Turkey, but smoother. Plus a couple razors. A Genco,Registered.
And seeing if I can repair the scales for a Joseph Allen & Sons, NON- XLL.
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Your pic of that Elijah Craig just gave me an incredible thirst outback. Now where did I stash that old jug of 101?
I usually prefer Wild Turkey Rare Breed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benz
It might be in a shot glass, but I just sip it, and enjoy the complexities. [emoji482]
I can't find my 101 so I cracked a jug of Evan Williams single barrel to sip on while I work on a couple more razors and read the posts here. Prost.:beer1:
Finished cleaning up the Genco.
Now to find or make scales for it, the white set I picked out for them are a bit too long.
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These should work nicely.
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Tomorrow
There is an empty check box next to Genco on my 'Razors i want' list.
Nice lookin' blade. Cant wait to see what you do for scales.
Oh boy......Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Mike those scales look like Toms on an acid trip. I like them. Very nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
They would....Tom gifted them to me a while backQuote:
Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003
Now imagine 7 of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003
That's either a bad trip or the best one ever..
Nah...Tom's got the only set I want to look at. They make my eyes hurt enough ad it is.
This set is black n white, faux MOP. They look really cool, up close.Attachment 234147
