Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by PR100

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

That's very nice of you PR100, but I am not going to do a lot more work on this one, except cleaning it, putting it back together and honing it. I will do a little polishing I guess, but it's a 5/8", which is a size that I don't enjoy very much. A few weeks ago I sent two 5/8" razors I'd cleaned up and honed for the monthly giveaway -- I think they will be in the May giveaway. I think that will happen to this one too!

The scales were amazingly filthy when I got them apart. They're soaking in a strong sodium percarbonate solution now. That stuff tends to kill pretty much anything you put in it, but it's fine for the septic system. Also, the copper pin was indeed a hack job -- I think these scales were a single molding that had split and been drilled and pinned back together.

Scales of that type that I have renewed were factory bonded at the wedge end. That bonding gave up volume of celluloid faster than the rest of the material as it aged. Also because the scales shrunk,(shrank, shrinked,) the blade wedged the bond apart. YMMV
~Richard

My Wapienica is done.

Finally seing my work worn :-)





And I'm quite happy with the result. :-)

Beautiful!

The pendant is also quite nice!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Beautiful!

The pendant is also quite nice!

Ha, Somebody else woke up on the Funny side of the Bed,Ty

I finally got these two off of the workbench and into the to be honed pile.

WOW,

Nice lookers Rez.

Nice job on those Shaun! Love the translucency of that horn. Great scale shapes buddy.

And Thaeris, terrific, terrific work on that pendant..
Right out of a time capsule and so classy.