Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Gasman

Also made a nice little cardboard and paperclip holder for the scales while finishing. I think its going to work out great as a holder.

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Are these what you use?

I was wondering how he shaped them. Thanks for posting that.

Regrinding blades seems to me, could be tough to do and get right without valleys and hills in the face of the blade. Ive never tried it myself but that was kind of you Shaun to give it a go.

Nice job on the scales Mike. Looked like you was dealing with delamination as well and got them all cleaned up. You can only pull off so many miricles in a year. You are the horn king!

As far as paperclips, i just used the standard paper clip that is about 1.75 inches long and a pair of plyers to bend them into shape. On the underneath side they are bent in a zig-zag and taped to the botton to hold them still. While making/bending the paperclips it reminded me of the old days of making custom handle/ends for my pot pipe pokers in the old days. Oh the memories.

Originally Posted by JP5

Mike,

How was the epoxy work on the "Lather Well" scales? It has been a long time since I did that. Hopefully I didn't do more harm than good.

I didn't even notice..or can I remember exactly what all I did on those. They didn't need much more than a good cleaning, and soak in oil. Any repairs I did to that set were done in CA. So you did good.!

Originally Posted by RezDog

Scrolling through your post Mike, I have to say good call on the hair dye, it came out nice, and the other scales are nothing short of amazing.

It was meant for the scales in the Cecil, but they cleaned up the best. It was a lot better for the Rodgers though, I've never seen a Joseph Rodgers in honey horn, always in black horn. So it is fitting for the times..

Originally Posted by outback

I didn't even notice..or can I remember exactly what all I did on those. They didn't need much more than a good cleaning, and soak in oil. Any repairs I did to that set were done in CA. So you did good.!

I think it was bug damage and maybe some cracking. I filled with cleared epoxy and sanded smooth. If you didn't notice then mission accomplished.

@Gasman, the grinder has a 2” wide belt so it is not as hard to do as I thought. Of course Dave’s grinder is the very best out there so I had the very best tools and at a meet with some very high end blade maker so I also had very good instruction. Tom sent me those to give me more material to learn on. They are not perfect, but they are at least going to be useable, I think.

Who do I send a blank to, to practice making custom razors?

Originally Posted by JP5

Who do I send a blank to, to practice making custom razors?

You've had enough custom work done, for now.

And besides, I gave those to Rez because I knew he would be in a good spot to learn on them.
Looks like he did!