Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by prodigy

Maybe glen will see this and chime in. I want to know where he gets his voodoo magical emery!

Do some research on Glens articles he did mention some where. From all the reading I did it will remove the 600 marks it just takes some time.

You also mentioned need to use pressure to get into the hollows. That just means you wheels are too big. 4 inch wheels should solve that.

I did a 6/8 the other night. 2 actually and went from 600 to emery without issue. I got everything from casswells from 80 greaseless right through to the blue compound.

Originally Posted by eddy79

Do some research on Glens articles he did mention some where. From all the reading I did it will remove the 600 marks it just takes some time.

You also mentioned need to use pressure to get into the hollows. That just means you wheels are too big. 4 inch wheels should solve that.

I did a 6/8 the other night. 2 actually and went from 600 to emery without issue. I got everything from casswells from 80 greaseless right through to the blue compound.

Sizes of wheels is most important, as well as spindle speed, I think! Pictures, or it didn't happen, eddy!

Originally Posted by eddy79

Do some research on Glens articles he did mention some where. From all the reading I did it will remove the 600 marks it just takes some time.

You also mentioned need to use pressure to get into the hollows. That just means you wheels are too big. 4 inch wheels should solve that.

I did a 6/8 the other night. 2 actually and went from 600 to emery without issue. I got everything from casswells from 80 greaseless right through to the blue compound.

I'm using 4 inch wheels. The 5/8 blade doesn't fit into the 4 inch wheel without pressure. Using light pressure only contacts near the spine and edge, not in the middle. I had a lot better luck with it today. I found that letting the 600 grit wear off helps to make the scratches not as deep going into the emery. I need to place another order with caswell soon, right now I'm only using 600. Limits my ability to take out puts and deep staining.

A way to quickly burn some buffing wheels down to three, 2 inch and increments, Please!
Have a need to know! Rub them on the sidewalk?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Sizes of wheels is most important, as well as spindle speed, I think! Pictures, or it didn't happen, eddy!

Were a couple gds as still learning and dont care if I stuff a 5 dollar razor. Sat on the 80 a while softening the crappie grinding. Left the scales on though so they are a little chewed up around the pin. Still very shiny gds with shoulder corrected looking better than when I got them. Will post some pics from you later although will only phone pics.

Here you go. You can see the original finish around the scales and pin area on the 2nd pic and on the third how badly shaped and angular the spine was. Spend a while blending it all in the spine toe and shoulder areas while trying not to remove all the grind marks and nice line along the edge of the blade and spine. Took a while but I'm happy with the results and not as tedious as with the dremel.

Will probably use a blend of techniques depending on the razor but want to know each aspect from start to finish by itself as well. These had both dremel and buffer work(although dremel was only for the shoulder and heel correction ). Now I just need more time and more razors.

Originally Posted by prodigy

For those of you who use greaseless compounds, what are you using after the 600 grit? That's the highest frit they seem to come in. I'm tired of hand sanding after 600 greaseless. All the black and gray and brown compounds from at least three different companies I've tried don't seem to do anything to 600 grit scratch marks. They work fine after about 1200 grit w/d, but this is driving me nuts!

Once you move off the grease less you need to consider what type of mop you use - for the first grade of compound you are best with a sisal mop - this may help with polishing out the 600 marks quicker. However beware because you can still build up heat pretty quickly .

By the way I didn't try and reference to colours of compounds because they can differ by manufacturer. Over here I use a product called Mazerna where grey is the most aggressive then green, buff, pink etc.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Looks great! Good job on the pinning as well!

+1 on that Prodigy!

I cant stop looking at this razor. It kills me ,the fact that its all there hone ware free but so pitted.

I have one that has excessive hone ware, they feel amazing to hold in the hand.

If I could live with pitting I'd buy this one.. ahhhh ..life is cruel

[QUOTE=JOB15;1574707]I cant stop looking at this razor. It kills me ,the fact that its all there hone ware free but so pitted.

I have one that has excessive hone ware, they feel amazing to hold in the hand.

If I could live with pitting I'd buy this one.. ahhhh ..life is cruel



JOB15, I've seen worst. With a little TLC, that one could be looking pretty nice!