Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by engine46

prodigy, did you get that as a small lot?

Sure did. The top razor is the old school for barbers use, a 7/8. The second one is a celebrated with some wacky bevel issues, but should hone up to a solid 6/8. The two brushes are pretty much junk, but I might re knot them for fun.

Originally Posted by prodigy

Sure did. The top razor is the old school for barbers use, a 7/8. The second one is a celebrated with some wacky bevel issues, but should hone up to a solid 6/8. The two brushes are pretty much junk, but I might re knot them for fun.

Nice score! I have some old brushes that need some new knots in them. I would like to put some good knots in 'em to keep 'em around in use much longer. I think old brushes should be brought back to life again.

I have three blades to scale. A Morely in good shape, a Torrey [Shorty] with, to me, odd hone wear, and W&B with a slightly wallowed out pivot hole.

I think the W&B is a Wedge. I see no hollowing.

All have been cleaned up & polished to my satisfaction. Got my 1/16" brass rod from a local shop. MicroFasteners washers are ordered and in transit.
After looking into pet store cow bones, between the price and expected labor involved, I'm instead thinking of purchasing from an online supplier of ready made scales. Prices tend to around $20. Another option being 1/8" thick blanks - flat & ready to cut to size.
Anyone have a source for bone they care to share? Many Google searches reveal abandon & not active, or sold out shops. I'm not sure if I'm ready to put in time and money to working horn. Warping would be discouraging.

Originally Posted by DeObfuscate

I have three blades to scale. A Morely in good shape, a Torrey [Shorty] with, to me, odd hone wear, and W&B with a slightly wallowed out pivot hole.

I think the W&B is a Wedge. I see no hollowing.

All have been cleaned up & polished to my satisfaction. Got my 1/16" brass rod from a local shop. MicroFasteners washers are ordered and in transit.
After looking into pet store cow bones, between the price and expected labor involved, I'm instead thinking of purchasing from an online supplier of ready made scales. Prices tend to around $20. Another option being 1/8" thick blanks - flat & ready to cut to size.
Anyone have a source for bone they care to share? Many Google searches reveal abandon & not active, or sold out shops. I'm not sure if I'm ready to put in time and money to working horn. Warping would be discouraging.

Nice find, and work.
Don't know of any bone dealers.
I prefer to work with woods myself.
I get most of mine from Amish shops, that are local to me.

After reading about Spalted wood [fungus infected!] and the gear folks put together to stabilize wood I'm curious about working bone. Got my Dremmel, thinking Scrimshaw!
I have easy access to many types of fresh samples of different types of wood, but they would be green. I haven't seen anyone working with pecan, camellia, mulberry, cypress, or citrus. There is a tree I need to take down near the orchard that dad calls,"water oak". I wonder if this is the same as Bog Oak.

Edit; I looked up Bog Oak. It's nearly fossilized oak that has been buried in a bog. Duh! Not my water oak.

Originally Posted by DeObfuscate

After reading about Spalted wood [fungus infected!] and the gear folks put together to stabilize wood I'm curious about working bone. Got my Dremmel, thinking Scrimshaw!
I have easy access to many types of fresh samples of different types of wood, but they would be green. I haven't seen anyone working with pecan, camellia, mulberry, cypress, or citrus. There is a tree I need to take down near the orchard that dad calls,"water oak". I wonder if this is the same as Bog Oak.

Edit; I looked up Bog Oak. It's nearly fossilized oak that has been buried in a bog. Duh! Not my water oak.

Here's where I get my bone blanks. It is concave already to make knife scales but I have split them, formed them & made them work:

Bleached Bone Scales 6” x 1 25” x 3 8” Pair Knife Making Slabs 5404 206 204 | eBay

There is an eBay seller name mygann that often has them and another robsbits that has them also. Sorry I am on my phone and cannot do links. I'm tech challenged.

No problem RezDog. My google Fu is strong. Having a name to search points me in a direction.
Thank you engine46 for the link.

Originally Posted by DeObfuscate

After reading about Spalted wood [fungus infected!] and the gear folks put together to stabilize wood I'm curious about working bone. Got my Dremmel, thinking Scrimshaw!
I have easy access to many types of fresh samples of different types of wood, but they would be green. I haven't seen anyone working with pecan, camellia, mulberry, cypress, or citrus. There is a tree I need to take down near the orchard that dad calls,"water oak". I wonder if this is the same as Bog Oak.

Edit; I looked up Bog Oak. It's nearly fossilized oak that has been buried in a bog. Duh! Not my water oak.

Well now that thanksgiving is in the rear view mirror, and I've got my buddies workshop operational.. the "tractor beam" is pulling me.. I've got a list of project blades and a list of Butchered Blade buddies to get some of my bog oak out to. If you want to try it out, send me a pm with your info.
I have not worked with this particular piece yet (could need some form of stabilizing or backing), but it shouldn't be too bad. It's roughly 5000yrs old, very dark near black. Will be cutting into it on Monday.
Yeah you gotta be extra careful with spalted wood, I've got some I'm just waiting for someone to offer to stabilize for trade. I chopped a few dead trees down in my buddies yard, had some really cool designs in it. Also some spalted Hackberry.
I've never worked with bone, there's just too many cool woods out there.
Good luck on your projects!

The Satina is finished.
As stated, this is a blade given to me by Bill (WW243) , wich I made the scales for, in memory and honor to him.
Thank you Bill, ya crazy nut. [emoji5]

Wood: American Walnut... Like Bill.
Brass wedge.
Silver collars.
Brass pins.
And one inlay from a junk set of scales. My first attempt at inlays.

So there ya go....Bill !!!
And the rest of the gang too. [emoji18]