Thread: What are you working on?

Seriously Tom, what DON'T you have?

Originally Posted by Dieseld

Seriously Tom, what DON'T you have?

A Veritable Vincent.....Like Rezdogs!

For some reason I'm betting that you will have one


Are you sure? Check under the towels you just never know

Tom beat me to it. What about the Iberia Tom?

Originally Posted by Dieseld

For some reason I'm betting that you will have one


Are you sure? Check under the towels you just never know

It's OK! One thing I have learned is you cannot have everything!

Originally Posted by RezDog

Tom beat me to it. What about the Iberia Tom?

Not the Iberia yet, Shaun....
While I have none of those either!

One at a time.....Working on that Veritable Vincent!

Originally Posted by Geezer

Melchior was a well known supplier of barber supplies. His strops are great and yours is the first razor I have seen.
~Richard

Wonder if we may persuade Martin to dig up some history on Melchior?

Originally Posted by BeJay

Well this ones is interesting. It's not really my kind of thing but it's rare and has historical value. It doesn't look like it seen much Use but it was probably put away wet at sometime. There was a good deal of pitting near the edge that luckily came out on the 1k. Then sanding and polishing on the blade only.
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Not my kind of thing but I wonder if there is a Benito Mussolini straight. I figure it would have to be good around the chin if they did make one

Seems I have seen an 'Il Duce' razor at some point.
Still. Just razors, I think.

I keep mine tucked away. Ya never know!
Someone may brand you a nazi or some such

So, I meant to do this days ago. However, I kept reading to catch up on the thread and then it was my bed time.

I didn't actually turn my brush handle. I started out with 1.5" x 1/5" x 12" block of marble wood. I haven't really seen this on the forum, but it was on sale.



I started out by drilling out the holes and rounding off the corners with my dremel. There are two in the first picture, but I have to finish sanding the second. It's supposed to be nice this weekend, so hopefully I'll finish it up.



I wasn't sure how I wanted to get my overall shape. My trusty dremel solved this solution. Aaaand about 3 or 4 60 grit drums.




From there, I used the 120 grit drums to remove the gouges and rough marks. I worked up from 320 grit paper to 2000 grit. I spent awhile handsanding the handle with the 320 paper to develop the shape a little more. My father was in town and I wanted to finish the brush while he was here, so I went with some satin finish Minwax. Otherwise, it would be Truoil. That's what I'm going to do with the second brush, which will be his.