Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by MikeT

Mike you have some serious skills in restoration! That's gonna be a beauty and shave great I think. Love inlays!

Thank you blade bro.
To steal a line from the bozzman, I too am learning everyday and every blade.

You are no slouch yourself. Those three shorts are really beaut! And I dig the candelabra brushes you have been making as well.
This thread is chock full of enthusiasm and skills. The ideas gained, graphite use, pin vice's, fiberglass pen detailing, epoxies etc..all will be helping me on future works.
Keep em coming gents.. And failures should be posted too. I personally learn more from them than perfect successes sometimes..
Thanks.

DITTO MIKE, DITTO

Xerox Mike, Xerox. ;D
I like the graphite idea too, gonna have to try that. From time to time i wondered about a good dark additive..

Wow, quiet house tonight!
I'm turning in just wanted to say hello, hope your projects going well. Gotta wake super early tomorrow.
Goodnite gents.

Yeah. Got my hone-face on! Hurts my back. Honing is necessary, yet it sucks!
G'nite!

Thirsty Thursday up here
Peening up my WB and calling it done!
Have a great night!
May get the bevel set before I turn in..
We shall see..

Same here, Mike. Just got mine off the Escher. Even did a Zowanda "one layer of tape additional, 10 strokes" at the end! 5 laps on CroOx, 5 on FeOx, 20 on Lipshaw black, 50 on Neil Miller heavy bridle, 50 on same, red bridle. 50 on same, European tallow-tanned. Gonna be a blistering shave in the morn!

Just finished honing the Unity. What a pain in the ya ya. Thought id do it last night. HA!! Damn thats some hard steel.

Hairs are jumpin off my arm before the blade gets there now. [emoji6]

Let y'all know how the shave went tomorrow.

I envy your Miller. Sadly I wasn't at the place in this hobby to reach out to him for one when I should have Tom. Will be a sublime shave for certain.

I won't have this to the final stages till tomorrow night probably, but will be a nice Saturday shave I reckon.
Settling for a few of the deepest score marks remaining because I just didn;t want to lose the metal required to get there. Maybe I'm playing it safe with these old razors and respect those that can get the bad grind marks all out. To me, I get them to a place and think, OK I can shave with that and it looks good. Done.


Dang, I made Featured shave again! And with that sweet Engstrom I restored last year. Was a soldiers razor, his name is still scratched on the scale. I kept it and restored around it.
Nice shaver still.

Good go, Mike! Lovely shave, that! I have been paticipating in SOTD for lots of years, Sundays only!
Max ALWAYS gets Featured Shave on Sundays!