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My horrendous morning with a J A Henckels frog
suffice to say it was a absolute shocker of a morning for my poor, poor razors.
this was how the J A Henckels 'frog razor' arrived to me a couple of weeks ago. the package was also beat to all hell. i thought i would be able to epoxy it back together after i had taken it apart to clean because they were relatively clean breaks with only a small visible seam.
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its not easy to see but the washers on the outside of the scales on the razor end were the same size as the washers on the inside. after seeing this i tried to go as slowly as possible.
turns out the pins were also oversized. with a really wide mushroom peened head. they look like modified nails.
after filing the top off, then moved on to drilling (with oil). The pins were very hard. (high carbon in the nail compared to normally softer brass)
well after that it went down hill. the bottom pin came out ok, but the spacer has been glued to the scales.
then when i started on the top (another nail again) it got worse. the scales cracked again and the brass detail fell off.
the razor itself came off no trouble (at least one thing went ok) the the pin/nail was stuck in the otherside of the scales.
i supported the rest of the obviously fragile scales on the vice with a small gap to tap the pin through. 4oz ball peen hammer and went and cracked the scales again (and again).
this the aftermath.
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from what i can tell the razor must have been left in the sun by the previous owner and have become pretty brittle
here is the pin/nail next to my brass rod which is 1/16.
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Sorry for the long intro. here are my questions
is it still possible to save the scales with epoxy or another method? (i have my doubts but any ideas are welcome)
how can i get the rest of the brass details off the scales themselves? because they are what attracted me to the razor in the first place.
what should i have done differently?
thanks for any help, believe it or not i am not normally this destructive when unpinning, it was rather frustrating watching the razor sort of crumble as i went.
cheers.