Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Tarkus

Looks like Tom will have an Easter themed razor, along with his Christmas razor.
Its pretty, I dig it.

That is funny.

Originally Posted by RezDog

That is funny.

Yeah. Old Darry is quite the comedian!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

At LEAST tell me I got the front equally as funky as the back side?

Like George Clinton

Yep... Walt threw up on that one too. Har!! [emoji56]
Kiddin aside they look great Tom.

Do we get a side by side shot Tom.

That is the closest to a nice looking gold dollar as any I have seen. Here is what I see the issue with "fixing" a gold dollar, the increase in value is near zero. At least playing with vintage blades you can often get a little more back than what it costs to repair. However if you add in the learning experience with zero risk of crying should things go wrong...

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Like George Clinton

Originally Posted by outback

Yep... Walt threw up on that one too. Har!! [emoji56]
Kiddin aside they look great Tom.

Thanks guys! (snif!) I know who my real buddies are.

And....NO HIRLAU!

It's NOT for sale!

Oozing funk. Now you need a similarly funky brush to go with it. I think on that you are on your own.

I am trying to repair the broken black bakelite scales from the little W&B Bow razor I mentioned in an earlier post. I figured I'd first try to mix up some black epoxy from some two-part epoxy.

I used some Rit black dye powder -- this was actually not the best thing to do, because it turns out that Rit black dye is pretty gritty stuff, and that stuff doesn't dissolve so readily. I tried a little denatured alcohol (which most epoxies tolerate just fine as a thinner), but I still I had a lot of grit in the bottom. I figure I should just actually go out and buy some fine powdered black pigment at a woodworking store next time.

Anyway, I poured off some of the liquid into the epoxy mixture. Looks pretty black. It is unfortunately also kind of runny, so I mated up the pieces under parchment paper and will know more tomorrow. If the the bond is strong, I'll then proceed to fill in the missing chip.

Anyway, lesson learned: no Rit dye in epoxy next time.

I have used graphite to dye epoxy with great luck, but larger quantities for filling knot holes in the making of funky furniture. You can get epoxy pigments. However if you take an old scale of similar composition you can grind it up and use it as a filler/colorant in your epoxy and you can buy black epoxy too.

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