Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Martin103

Possibly the same person, I was told that if you have a razor from Burrell he had his hands on it. Will eventually have more information and hopefully talk to him.

Cool!

Originally Posted by RezDog

Hey are ver similar looking. I cannot tell exactly by the pictures, but the spine/tip looks like it may be different. Someone had to make the razors for PJM. I doubt they all came from Germany. It is completely plausible.

Shaun. Carl produced razors from Germany for PJM to import to the US from the 30's, I think, up until the late 30's when Carl emigrated to the US with his workmen and their families.
Started out in SF and all moved to New York soon afterward.
Partnered with Burrell in the 40's and 50's. Razors and surgical stuff for the war effort. Burrell never made razors. Carl Monkhouse was responsible for the Top Flights.
Carl was involved with Allegeny Instrument and ran Cutlery associates in Allegheny seemingly simultaneously.
SOLD his NAME to PJM in the 50's. The later, fancy PJM CMons had nothing to do with the old company as all was produced in Germany and simply carried Carl's name. Sales recognition!

Very good Tom, also that region of New York was already very involved in cutlery. J. B. F. Champlin was bringing grinders and cutlers from Germany to immigrate here, offering them work, and a decent place to live for the workers and their families.
And that was when Cattaraugus cutlery started.

The Ford looks great Rez

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

The Ford looks great Rez

Don't it? ..................................

So Tom, the later editions of C-Mon razors were from more than just Germany. There are models from both France and Spain if my memory is correct, or were those all PMJ models?

Couple questions, does one do anything differently when pinning collarless?
Has anyone messed with scrimshaw? Thanks gents

When pinning collarless I taper the hole in the scale and I leave the pin a tiny bit longer.

I have played with scrimshaw just enough to know that my scrimshaw needs some serious practise. The principle is very simple. You make a series of dots and lines at varying depths and densities and then fill the low spot with ink, sand and seal the top and it creates a picture. It is similar to the art pointillism in many ways. There are a lot of videos on the interweb about how to. It is really cool and I will venture further down this path eventually. I think most of the people that do it seriously have a series of carbide tipped scrapers that look a lot like mechanical pencils.

The razor looks great Rez

Thanks for the history lesson Martin and Tom

Thanks Rez I think I'm going collarless on my bone scales and might try scrimshaw too. Want to put the cross arrow and circle b on the show side scale. Ill have to play around first.