Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Aerdvaark

Well, he does have to stay in touch with us commoners somehow.....

Not much talk about Gold Dollar on this thread.

Originally Posted by Geezer

Been one of those weeks! This little fancy pants W&B has been ingesting my prandial comestibles for that long.
It came in a nice fitted case and seemed to have had little use. A minor polishing and cleaning should have done for it. Not!

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Well. this one is the weirdest I've ever met! How it got to a show/ sales room I really do not know.
It cleaned fairly well but it would not hone for sour owl tweety!]

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To use the term waggle, or frown, or smile would not give due justice to its uniqueness!.
Who ever looks at a grind? One usually hones the side down then the other...right?
Look carefully! There is a different grind on each side of the blade!
The finish looked as though it had been the original factory polish and not reground then polished. So I learned a lot and hope I train myself better for the future!
~Richard

That's interesting for sure I'd sure have been surprised.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

32t if you are presuming that I would have charged my own flesh and blood for working on her scissors, you are sadly mistaken. Family doesn't charge Family.

With that said IF I would have started a business sharpening scissors for Others, Yes they would be charged. Otherwise the business would fail as that's what people in business do, they charge for their services and goods.

Oh and back to family charging family. When that daughter opened her own shop I insisted on being her first PAYING CUSTOMER. She said "Dad you know I don't charge you to cut your hair." I insisted!

Her shop was to open at 10am and I was there at 9:30 she cut my hair and after had me all cleaned up and ready to leave I reached inside of my shirt and pulled out a small gift wrapped package. She asked what it was and I said, "It's your Payment" when she opened it she found a framed Dollar, the very first dollar she had earned in her own business and it was a Silver Dollar that was 125 years old at the time. She thanked my very much and then asked if she could paint the frame to match her shops decor and I of course said yes.

Have a Nice Day

I never mentioned your daughter in my post but would agree if that dad messed up even my relatively cheap scissors at $350 a piece even if I felt like it I wouldn't complain.

My point was that it seemed interesting to start a scissor sharpening business until it came to the thoughts of money and charging others for it. Then it becomes work. Then it involves money time etc. It takes much of the fun out of it.

But then again that is why it is called work!

Originally Posted by Martin103

Not much talk about Gold Dollar on this thread.

We push them to "The Butchered blade" thread. [emoji23]

Originally Posted by outback

We push them to "The Butchered blade" thread. [emoji23]

OH NO You don't!!!!

Been working on removing the chips of this Gervais that I got recently. I searched and searched for this Guy in Texas to find the maker with the grinding wheel trademark, till another one showed up on this thread: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...e-gervais.html
Original condition when I got it.

Removed the chips, and started to give it a little smile, more needed.

Originally Posted by 32t

I never mentioned your daughter in my post but would agree if that dad messed up even my relatively cheap scissors at $350 a piece even if I felt like it I wouldn't complain.

My point was that it seemed interesting to start a scissor sharpening business until it came to the thoughts of money and charging others for it. Then it becomes work. Then it involves money time etc. It takes much of the fun out of it.

But then again that is why it is called work!

You have a rather interesting train of thought as that was nothing close to what I'd written.

Originally Posted by Martin103

Gasman, you have a beautiful 7 day razor set in ivory,and your playing with a Gold Dollar?

That is kind of funny ain't it. ha/ I got tired of scraping the rust from inside the pivots on the 7 day set so took a break. They are about ready for the hones. Thinking maybe tomorrow but might wait another week on them.

Changing the scales still makes it a gold dollar? Well, this is true but you wont know its a gold dollar. At least it wont look like one any more. I've been wanting to do this for a while. Try my hand a reshaping a blade. I wasn't going to do it with something finished or something I paid good money for so the GD was the winner. Or looser, depending on how you look at it.

Well, neither has to do with the price of asparagus, so let's get back to it, Gents!

Originally Posted by Martin103

Been working on removing the chips of this Gervais that I got recently. I searched and searched for this Guy in Texas to find the maker with the grinding wheel trademark, till another one showed up on this thread: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...e-gervais.html
Original condition when I got it.

Removed the chips, and started to give it a little smile, more needed.

Looking good, Martin! A tad around the heel?