Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Well, Looky what showed up!

Silver inlay. The scales were rounded, so the inlay is curved, not flat!

Wow Tom, so ummm, I guess you wanna I send dis here blade back now huh, sniff??
Pretty cool that the inlay found it's way home again..A Christmas miracle in front of all our very eyes..

Originally Posted by outback

Here's mine and the way I used to do it... Till I lost my patent

As you can see , the wedges dont come out right anymore

Nice lil pot oh slag Mike!!
Great set up.
And BTW, I love my anvil still too!! Feel bad for dinging up that shiny surface with my pinning work..

Mine is too.
It'll clean back up with very little effort. Done it to mine with the dremmel and maas or flitz. It needs it again.

Not that it matters, I buff the pins anyhow.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Wow Tom, so ummm, I guess you wanna I send dis here blade back now huh, sniff??
Pretty cool that the inlay found it's way home again..A Christmas miracle in front of all our very eyes..

It's in the 'B52' Box!

I'm thinking maybe with the actual inlay, there may be a way to figure out how to use my ole engraving machine to make the receiving relief perfectly... Mind is working on a few idear's.
And what ink to use to try to make honey horn into mock tortoise..

One of the GE's with what's left of the original gold and a pitted up Special 1 as I'm taking them apart.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

I'm thinking maybe with the actual inlay, there may be a way to figure out how to use my ole engraving machine to make the receiving relief perfectly... Mind is working on a few idear's.
And what ink to use to try to make honey horn into mock tortoise..

They make some acrylic tortoise. It looks smashing!

Oh man, now is the time...I bid on a razor for the scales! Got it at a fair price...why did I bid on it? 3 reasons, one, I really liked the faux tortoise, two, I thought the shape was cool and third, the far out reason...I was pretty sure this might fit a nice little blade I had. Guess what, it fits! The madman from Philly said that almost never happens. I'll be losing some truly awesome scales (not original) on my little wedge but, possibly a razor will be reborn with these...oh I almost forgot reason 4: The crazy ass inlay.

Fingers crossed...I know the wedge blade matches the little hollow grind of the Möck...the width might be an issue.

Those scales are similar to the Nowill Razor Tom lent me!
Very cool shape! Hope it's a match Bill


Thanks for the tip on the acrylic faux Tom. Gonna start hunting.

If it is a MOOK, it is a Helji. Neat sales, but tortoise celluloid is always suspect. I wonder if it is something which has been rescaled? Never saw a Swedish razor in scales like that. Seem German? Does the blade show signs of lots of sanding/grinding? Is there warpage? If all is well, you have some lovely scales, no doubt!

Scales like that don't generally lend themselves to wedges.
I can see a nice Japanese wedge in them, however.....