Thread: What are you working on?

Yea, the visors will also, improve your pinning.

Those cracked horn scales can also be saved with a G-10 liner. You can get it at 1/32 " and expos it to the inside. G-10 is crazy strong. By lining it with the G-10 you can also keep the aged look on the outside. there has been a lot going on here.

Not a great photo but looks much better than it was.


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It came out great, nice save.!
Gonna have it ready for tomorrow's SOTD.?

Originally Posted by outback

It came out great, nice save.!
Gonna have it ready for tomorrow's SOTD.?

I got a Mongoose from a friend so i just shaved with that before i return it. W&B will have to wait a couple of days, but that means that i will have enough time to get it shave ready as it deserves.

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Originally Posted by MikeB52

I have one of those visors, with different lenses for different magnification. Better hair though, haha.
Work terrific for detail work with my old-ish eyes.

Those are indispensable for me. I take off the monicle, the lights, and the inner flip-down lens, though. It lightens the thing considerably and I wear readers with it anyway.
The removed flip down is saved for when the stationary one is toast.
It goes in for a replacement lens!

I too often sport the Dork Lord glasses (visor) when working on restores. My up close vision is not what it used to be.

As I was saying the other day,
I was playing with my magnetic razor holder.
I wished I would have made one sooner, its sooo nice having both hands free to work with the greaseless compounds, and dremmel.

I also wished I would of took more pics of this blade before I started. But its a 5/8 full hollow, made by Clauss, of Freedmont, Ohio. Covered in pits, and tarnish, and originally plated. I'd done a half ass clean up and made scales of African mahogany for it a couple years ago, but never posted about it because it was sooo ugly. (blade that is). I didn't even bring it out for tarnished Tuesday SOTD, just cause it was so ugly.

But I put it on the mag holder and went at it with the greaseless. Starting with a small felt wheel and 80 grt., I dug out all the pits under the spine, with the wheel rotating towards the edge, not off the edge. Yes..that's scary, but that's why the use of the small wheel, it's only 1/3 the width of the blade, and the rotation keeps you from running up over the spine. Once the pits were gone from under the spine, I changed to larger wheels, and direction of rotation, progressing thru the wheels and grits to 600

Then used a scotchbrite wheel to smooth it a bit for a brushed/satin finish

Then sanded the tang by hand, and polished it with cr/ox and Maas
and put it back in its scales with polished brass domes and pins.

Outback that razor looks fantastic, what a great result, that blade just glows with the way you finished that. You and your strong magnets! Those the same ones that are in the manga-badger? Very nice work man.
And caus24, that razor is a beauty for sure. Such nice work getting the crud off the end and saving as much of the etch as possible.

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Outback that razor looks fantastic, what a great result, that blade just glows with the way you finished that. You and your strong magnets! Those the same ones that are in the manga-badger? Very nice work man.
And caus24, that razor is a beauty for sure. Such nice work getting the crud off the end and saving as much of the etch as possible.

Yep, same magnets. Ya gotta make sure you set the blade down on it spine first, because it about yanks it out of your hand. But ain't no worries of it flying off while your grinding.[emoji56]