Maher & Grosh in horn from start to finish (Pic heavy!)
I've been thinking about doing this for a while, but knowing it would take a ot of time I've been postponing it over and over again, but this weekend I finally decided to go for it, so here is a "How do I do it, step by step" taking a Maher & Grosh from start to finish.
1. Here's the raozor as it came to me, pretty good shape, except for someone trying to sand it or something making some light scratches along the blade and the scales had started to shrink, which is not a very good sign being celluloid....
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2. Unpining. Cutting the pins of with a flush cutter, then using a mandrel to carefully drive them out.
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3. Blade out of the scales, ready for buffing.
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4. My buffer. I use these tapered spindles, making wheel change fast and easy.
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5.Buffing. Since this blade was in pretty good shape I only ran it very lightly on 400 grit greaseless before moving on trough four different steps of polishing.
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