Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Dieseld

What would be the best way to stop these cracks in the wood scales from going any farther?



This is a Wade & Butcher for Gentlemans Use I also took off of Addison's hands yesterday.
To be honest the small cracks are the only thing out of sorts with this razor

Dave, you sure those are wood.?
They look like dried up horn, it looks as if there's delamination going on along the edges of the scales.

Heat a needle, and poke the inside of the scales where it won't be seen. If it smells like burning hair, its horn.

Originally Posted by Dieseld

What would be the best way to stop these cracks in the wood scales from going any farther?



This is a Wade & Butcher for Gentlemans Use I also took off of Addison's hands yesterday.
To be honest the small cracks are the only thing out of sorts with this razor

Not sure those are wood. Look more like old brittle horn to me?? Especially with those collars over them.

Dieseld take a quarter trace it on the heel to get the shape and use a diamond hone or file to 're shape the heel. I believe Tom had me do that on my fbu and it worked great. Maybe a nickel depends on how wide of a blade.

Yup you guys are right. I knew that, not sure why I said wood...........DUH
Should I proceed with the repairs as instructed?

You beat me Mike!!

Yes, I thought it being horn was a given, missed where wood was mentioned.
Ca will bond the horn crack. And by sanding it all back off the surface when done, it will not be over shiny but be strong.

Originally Posted by Dieseld

Yup you guys are right. I knew that, not sure why I said wood...........DUH
Should I proceed with the repairs as instructed?

Unpin it, use thin CA, glue the crack, and clamp it back together. Find something that works for clamping, before you glue it. ( A test run per say ). Then make any other repairs needed ( chips, bug bites, ect.). Then soak them in pure neats foot oil. For those...better part of a week , probably longer.

I put oil in a zip lock bag ( just enough to cover) and place them in a tackle tray to contain the mess.
In the summer, I'd place it in the window sill, and let the sun warm the oil.
This time of year, I put it on top of the furnace.

File and center punch as said, but drill with a center drill, they are not that expensive. And raise the work up on a bock of wood so you can see the better.

Or better yet, File and center punch, and with a Dremel and a flex shaft use a dentist ball burr, (eBay) to make a hole in the center, then just eat away at the pin. A magnified visor makes this a whole lot easier, $5 at Harbor Freight with, 3 lenses, super buy. I don’t use the lights, batteries weigh too much.

Lift the scale off the pin, as said.

When you re-pin make sure the hole is larger than the pin and tapered, to give the pin some room to expand.

Or epoxy a brass tube, Hobby store or Ace Hardware) the size of the pin and as thick as the scale to re-enforce the pin hole. File to the scale thickness, it will not be seen under the collar. Tape the tube to a board and cut with a Dremel, with a piece of rod inside the tube for support.

Get reproduction Sheffield collars from AJ on eBay, quality stuff. (Ajkenne4xm3)

Thanks a lot all advise will be followed to a "T"

I have one of those visors, with different lenses for different magnification. Better hair though, haha.
Work terrific for detail work with my old-ish eyes.