Thread: What are you working on?

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"Any man who won't admit to his mistakes is no man at all" Watson A Davis (my father

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Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Love the brass lined wedge! I'm gonna have to try that some time.

yeah. saw wedge liners from some other guys here on the board and ive been hooked since. adds time but definitely worth it.

the horn scales actually have brass liners (hard to see in the pix) and brass pins. and the acrylic has nickel liners and nickel pins.

Nice work on those Sloan!
Wedges look great, so do the razors as a whole.
Good job sir!

Great work going on in here the last few days, gents! Great scales and brushes, great regrind, it's fun to page through and see it all. I spent the weekend taking care of non-razor-related chores and things, didn't have much time to check the forum and WOW, some very cool projects been happening. But, it was good to take care of some other things... then focus on football

I did a little more bone recovery work.
The vacuum oil treatment on the bone left it a little yellowish and a little translucent.
To see how that would change I soake some in H2O2 for a short while, but longer than I had intended. Distractions and all.
It came out looking more white and less translucent, but still feel moisturized, not dry and chalky like they were before treatment. I think I like the post vacuum treatment look obese at this point.

Thanks for the info on the bone. I had some that was really bad. While pinning, I broke the front scale, made new one, broke back scale...you been there!
I enjoy your solutions!
~Richard

When I started down the path of trying to learn how to carve bone scale, I was u dear the impression that all bone slabs would be the same. That I have come to discover is not true at all. I have used bone from many sources. In order to get a good price some of it I bough in larger lots. That left me with a lot of slabs that were not really usable. Some thinking and head scratching and a little help from my friends and I think it is usable again. I still cannot carve this stuff but it makes very nice plane scales. I like those too. Thanks for the appreciation.

Have you tried to carve it after the treatment, Shaun? Curious if it may carve better/easier.

Oh yes. A marked improvement for sure, the tools move much nicer but the bone is still quite chippy. I will likely carve some of it when I go back to work. It may have been just the two pieces I grabbed to mess with, but do not have great expectations of carving this bone. I do however have a box of nice carving bone that I just put through the drum sander yesterday, so it is half way to carving. I did some scales that I put on some of my resident Henckels, some of those I have the same model in carbon and stainless. My goal while at work is to make matching scales for the matching model numbers.