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    I made mine from memory.
    I had remembered reading about it, but never could find the post. But there is a pic in the library, under restoration.
    Its probably not exact, but it works just fine.
    I epoxied the mags, and the whole top, covered it in wax paper, and put one of my hones on top. That way once it was cured, the surface was completely flat. If I should grind a groove into the surface, I can recoat with epoxy again to make it flat.
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    A handy addition to the basic mag holder:
    Two or more slots, deep enough to allow a blade to not bottom out when working the spine and tang:
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    Great idea, Geezer!
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    According to Randy, they only had the slots before Bill did his magic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by outback View Post
    As I was saying the other day,
    I was playing with my magnetic razor holder.
    I wished I would have made one sooner, its sooo nice having both hands free to work with the greaseless compounds, and dremmel.

    I also wished I would of took more pics of this blade before I started. But its a 5/8 full hollow, made by Clauss, of Freedmont, Ohio. Covered in pits, and tarnish, and originally plated. I'd done a half ass clean up and made scales of African mahogany for it a couple years ago, but never posted about it because it was sooo ugly. (blade that is). I didn't even bring it out for tarnished Tuesday SOTD, just cause it was so ugly.

    But I put it on the mag holder and went at it with the greaseless. Starting with a small felt wheel and 80 grt., I dug out all the pits under the spine, with the wheel rotating towards the edge, not off the edge. Yes..that's scary, but that's why the use of the small wheel, it's only 1/3 the width of the blade, and the rotation keeps you from running up over the spine. Once the pits were gone from under the spine, I changed to larger wheels, and direction of rotation, progressing thru the wheels and grits to 600
    Sweet, outback! A small wheel going up against the bottom of the spine will also erase most of old hone wear width using two steady hands and some practice. It is still there, yet not as prominent.
    A flex-shaft is also quite nice for this endeavour.
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    Finished up the Hargreaves, Smith & Co. "Imperial Razor". I just made some scales from horn and a set of solid brass domes. It has bronze (yep, bronze) pins all the way from Texas. Those buggers take a little more tapping than plain old brass! Used an old lead wedge and didn't really do much to shine up the blade. I like this one with the good patina it has and the light etch showing through, a nice rattler grind on this one too. Got it honed up and ready for a test run tomorrow.
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    Tuzi that blade looks great. Bevel really pops.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
    A handy addition to the basic mag holder:
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    Are there mags in the slots, or is the wedging of the blade in the slot holding it in place.
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    No mags in the slots. My hand is large enough to hold the blade in place when working a tang. Otherwise friction holds well for sanding and polishing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
    No mags in the slots. My hand is large enough to hold the blade in place when working a tang. Otherwise friction holds well for sanding and polishing.
    It looks like from the pics the grain is vertical in the wood. I assume that you have had no trouble with the razor acting like a wedge and splitting the holder. But I think that it would be a good idea to reinforce the bottom to prevent this.
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    Here is the completed P <3 Ford. I tried to keep it old looking and attempted a satin finish on the scales. I wet sanded them to 2K and then used dry 000 steel wool on them. I'm nor certain it is really the look I wanted. I struggled hard with getting the lead wedge correct. You would think by this time I would know how to do that. Three mock ups and three different wedges later I did get it. I was starting to think I needed to come and read some other people posts on how to make wedges, clearly my technique was not working. I got it together and it will go in the tombe honed box I am taking to work with me. I have some scale carvings and some honing to do while I am there so all should be good.
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