Thread: What are you working on?

That is. Is is the side of an arch top box. I made three of them at the same time. It was just before Christmas and our rules for the draw that year was that the gifts had to be homemade. The other two went as gifts. Arch top boxes are a giant pain. It is in yellow cedar and pacific yew. Once upon a time it housed my entire razor collection, and my barbers hones.;-)

Step by step. Wapienica Special not Surgary (stailes scales) made for export to Germany.

Pick up from post.



open the box



take off scales and first clen up





and finally just one side



I hoppe now is better.

To compare

SKI Razor made by Friedrich ERN. Really broke



after little work

Originally Posted by RezDog

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This is an sample of a box joint.
The ends are cut with the board standing on end on a table saw. There are other ways but that is the technique we are talking about. So the bottom of the cut winds up being the vertices join in the joint. For it to be clean and tight the cut needs to be clean.

That's a fine example Shaun! Was that done with the forest blades? Very crisp edges mate.
The box I'm building is going to have burl and bog oak as its main components.
Hope their end grains can hold up to fingering.
This is finer cabinet type work then I have done in the past so it's a slow learning process..
Dowels are easy, but I wanted something more traditional and timeless on this project..
Cheers..

So, I bought this here razor on a whim when I was at an antique shop -- it was cheap and I was already buying something else.

Now, I don't normally collect 5/8" pitted razors made by the Lafayette Cutlery Co., but I liked the scales and I thought I might use them for something else.





I'm having a bit of a tough time removing the top pin -- it seems to be pretty hard stuff and my drill bit is wandering on it and I don't want to screw up the scales.

Two questions -- first, what do you think these are made of? Second, is that copper pin likely to be original or a repair? I am thinking of drilling it out.

Originally Posted by jmabuse

So, I bought this here razor on a whim when I was at an antique shop -- it was cheap and I was already buying something else.

Now, I don't normally collect 5/8" pitted razors made by the Lafayette Cutlery Co., but I liked the scales and I thought I might use them for something else.





I'm having a bit of a tough time removing the top pin -- it seems to be pretty hard stuff and my drill bit is wandering on it and I don't want to screw up the scales.

Two questions -- first, what do you think these are made of? Second, is that copper pin likely to be original or a repair? I am thinking of drilling it out.

They are likely celluloid and copper is definitely not original. I like to file the pin flat before using a pin vice to drill through it. It helps to have a decent drill bit too.

I can't help but agree with the above. A split point drill bit in a pin vice will work extremely well, and if it is cobalt or solid carbide you are really in business. Some of the old razors I have encountered have hard the hardest pins known to man. I do not know what the really hard pins are made from but they are zero fun to deal with.

A center punch before drilling will make a divot on the pin preventing your drill bit to wander all over.

Thanks for the hints gents, I wouldn't have thought this bit was dull but I will pop it in the drill doctor.

In the meantime, I got the pin out...



and that is one rusty blade.



I threw caution to the winds and just sanded it with some garnet paper on a drum.



The pitting doesn't go to the edge, so after new scales and honing it will probably end up in a monthly giveaway.

But I always wondered what it would be like to cut my own jimping!

I always do center-punch, but my bit started to head off to one side once it was already in the pin about 1/32". Like what happens when you're drilling concrete and run into some hard gravel. Differential hardness in the pin material perhaps. I'll sharpen it.

Nice job jmabuse . I see a lot of work with this razor but try use just hand for this renowation. Good luck.