Thread: What are you working on?

Martin is being kind...I think that a good wind-chime.
We shall find you a better blade, I think.

We can get anything to shave as long as the temper and edge is there.
As Martin said, time to try and get a bevel first.

It was an evening of minor metal fabrication and doodling.


I must say the project here have been pretty nice. Benches and razor saves. It kind of makes me feel like I wasn't that productive. Nice work gentlemen!

Gentlemen, I was going to touch up this week's rotation and go to bed, but your concerns about the bevel on the Greaves got me to spend an hour or maybe more with it on the 1K stone. 1 layer of tape (had to change it a few times). I ended up taking the edge in about 1/32", which gave me a clean bevel except in two spots; I think I have another 1/64" or so to go. In retrospect, I should have just worked it on something coarser, like a lapping plate.

But, I looked at it under a 100x microscope and I think there's reason to hope that the patient is going to make it... I'll work on it again tomorrow night. I'm really hoping to get it to shaving condition, just because... it looked so sad there in that antique shop!

Originally Posted by RezDog

It was an evening of minor metal fabrication and doodling.


I must say the project here have been pretty nice. Benches and razor saves. It kind of makes me feel like I wasn't that productive. Nice work gentlemen!

Rez that's awesome! Love seeing the scrimshaw.

Great work on that Wade Tuzi! Looks its age, but still a solid worker with some nice new skins. Well done.
And that scrimshaw work looks terrific Rez. I like your work surface, very handy indeed.
And the art work chosen really works.
Looking good gents..

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Great work on that Wade Tuzi! Looks its age, but still a sold worked with some nice new skins. Well done.
And that scrimshaw work looks terrific Rez. I like your work surface, very handy indeed.
And the art work chosen really works.
Looking good gents..

I just got off a morning conference call, and I know you're probably sitting down to a hot cup of coffee and a week of chilling in the shop, vacation and the place to yourself...enjoy brother!!

That scrim is super, Rez! Is that a razor scale?

Mike, are you up to my old tricks? Send them off and hit the workshop!

Originally Posted by jmabuse

Gentlemen, I was going to touch up this week's rotation and go to bed, but your concerns about the bevel on the Greaves got me to spend an hour or maybe more with it on the 1K stone. 1 layer of tape (had to change it a few times). I ended up taking the edge in about 1/32", which gave me a clean bevel except in two spots; I think I have another 1/64" or so to go. In retrospect, I should have just worked it on something coarser, like a lapping plate.

But, I looked at it under a 100x microscope and I think there's reason to hope that the patient is going to make it... I'll work on it again tomorrow night. I'm really hoping to get it to shaving condition, just because... it looked so sad there in that antique shop!

Keep in mind you will have to leave all that pitting on the spine if you manage to get a good bevel.
If you grind the spine to get through that, the geometry will be poop.

That I am Sir Phrank!
Cup of Death Wish Coffee in hand and deciding on which colour of sweatpant to wear today. haha.
I think the paintspeckled flannel with oil stained rump, will go well under the car as I replace some front bushings in anticipation of spring on the Rado..

Originally Posted by sharptonn

That scrim is super, Rez! Is that a razor scale?

Mike, are you up to my old tricks? Send them off and hit the workshop!

That is not a razor scale Tom, just a scrape of 1x4 bone to doodle or do homework on. I am planning a set of scales with the front scale with an under sea scrimshaw. I am still doodling elements. I am way too new to scrimshaw to be comfortable just going for it right off the bat. In the end I hope it all works and as always you will see it here first.