Thread: What are you working on?

Yeah! A rounded-end version with all the crazy lines meeting!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yeah! A rounded-end version with all the crazy lines meeting!

Only problem is the lines aren't 100% centered. Might be off line a bit..... still might look ok though.

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Only problem is the lines aren't 100% centered. Might be off line a bit..... still might look ok though.

I might take a chance! Seems you may make it way too big and see where the lines meet. Offset it accordingly in the lathe to bring all pretty center?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I might take a chance! Seems you may make it way too big and see where the lines meet. Offset it accordingly in the lathe to bring all pretty center?

I can only try! I think it should work.

Funny thing about that Novus plastic polish, I was going to buy some off Delvies plastics web site, but it was expensive and so was the shipping. Figured I'd keep on using my tried and true method I had been using on acrylics. Well, I was at the antique mall the other day and came upon a booth that had a lot of old plastic Coke, Pepsi, and beer coolers and other things that had been restored really well. beside them the guy was selling this plastic polish, and is what he was using on all these old plastic pieces. HA! Score! $12 CAN a bottle but worth it. Need to try it on the lathe yet.

I decided to work on this Frederick Reynolds Masonic. It had some very nice horn scales on it but one was broken & I do not have the other piece. I'll save 'em though. I have another razor with some horn scales that the blade isn't so nice, so I will swap 'em out but need to do a hot pin test to be 100% sure they are horn but I'm sure they are. The blade has a water stain on it or something. I got some of it off & it looks better than it does in the pic but you can see the stain in the pic. It also had a little rust on the toe & I was able to get it out with my fiberglass pen but you can barely see where it was. It looks a lot better in person than in the pic.

Man! That is nice. The fiberglass pen is something I need!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Man! That is nice. The fiberglass pen is something I need!

Tom, I figured you would have one of those fiberglass pens.
I have more than one so don't buy one. They also come with a replacement fiberglass piece which will last quite awhile because once you use part of it, ya just cut it off or however & go again.

Originally Posted by engine46

Tom, I figured you would have one of those fiberglass pens.
I have more than one so don't buy one. They also come with a replacement fiberglass piece which will last quite awhile because once you use part of it, ya just cut it off or however & go again.

A good tool...but... keep the swarf off your chair!!! Your butt and thighs/ legs will be happier! Those lttle bits burrow in and take a while to come out again.

~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

A good tool...but... keep the swarf off your chair!!! Your butt and thighs/ legs will be happier! Those lttle bits burrow in and take a while to come out again.

~Richard

Yeah, like fiberglass insulation................. I always hated getting that crap on me! Even a hot shower wouldn't wash it off. I heard working with G-10 is the same way. I have some but when I decide to make some scales from it, I'll be wearing a long sleeve shirt & more!