"Broken Blade Rescue Mission" Thread!

[Chevhead]

Put the point on that will keep the most blade. You can use a magic marker and "black" out the area to see what it looks like first.
I would keep the scales and make new ones. Never know when you will get a good blade/bad scales razor in the future.

[MikeT]

Put the point on that
I would keep the scales and make new ones. Never know when you will get a good blade/bad scales razor in the future.

That's a good point too. I felt a little off about cutting down perfectly good scales.

[WW243]

By way of Texas and a purposely lopsided trade:

A Shaving Machine!

[MikeT]

By way of Texas and a purposely lopsided trade:

A Shaving Machine!

That's a beauty! That style of W&B are great shavers and smooth looking. The shape of the scales and the wood along with the collar go well..
But is that a rescued broken blade? It's certainly looks "whole"...

[sharptonn]

That's a beauty! That style of W&B are great shavers and smooth looking. The shape of the scales and the wood along with the collar go well..
But is that a rescued broken blade? It's certainly looks "whole"...

That one began as a bigger heavy and had been reground quite thin. Naturally, the weakened lower half of the barber's notch was broken-off. I got the angle on the toe to somewhat match the angle on the stabilizer and smiled the edge to flow with it all.
The scales are horn from a horribly worn obscure Sheffield. The bigs and littles were gifts from Babur as I bought a pile of collars from him. A mean shaver, put into proportion. I loved it. Glad Bill does too! I had pics along the way, but were lost in the great computer crash of 2013!
Not much money was spent, just some work!

Here is a thread on the Ator as I did it. Had a lot of fun with it. I wound up awarding shorties to all the 'participants'!
http://straightrazorpalace.com/razors/109076-dang.html

[MikeT]

That one began as a bigger heavy and had been reground quite thin.

Well dang dude! You had me fooled! Lol it looked straight factory perfection, actually better. And I saw the grain and thought it was wood.. now I feel a little dummm
But not TOO dumb because to be fooled by one of your razors is an easy thing to happen I suspect..

[sharptonn]

Just a case of going through a pile of broken and worn things and suddenly, it appeared!
Those scales are not so wide for a blade of that width, but the gunstock design worked nicely on it.

Some pitting and defects here and there. Just tried to keep it 'old'!

Certainly another like it won't be seen?

[bongo]

I would keep the scales and make new ones. Never know when you will get a good blade/bad scales razor in the future.

Yeah Chev Totally agree, why break up original scales ?....