Thread: The Butchered Blade

The blade on that Shumate looks like a decent fixer upper.

Originally Posted by Benz

The blade on that Shumate looks like a decent fixer upper.

Yeah that seller always asks too much for anything they have. I take it you don't like the scales?

Originally Posted by engine46

Yeah that seller always asks too much for anything they have. I take it you don't like the scales?

The scales are really not my cup of tea. I prefer basic black, followed by some kind of white be it bone or ivory. I do have a Shumate in my collection. Really a good shaver that I rescaled in purple heart because the original scales were broke beyond repair.

What blows my mind with that seller and others on ebay is what I consider a ridiculous price for safety razors. I have two Gillette "dial a shave" razors that I use for travel. I absolutely hate them.....crank the dial to the max and keep taking it apart mid shave to clean the crud out. I guess after using a straight all these years I'm too set in my ways.

If I get around to molding and casting with my vac and pressure pot projects, I see me trying to melt down some acrylic scraps to see what I can make it into, scale wise now that I've seen the result of evaporation. Mold imprints of the more ornate scales I have would prove very valuable copies to retain. Certainly fun little projects for when there's nothing else on the bench..

First off, i think it would be neat to do the glitter in layers in a mold with a clear/semitransparent base. Second, could you melt some sacrificial scale, add glitter and the brush onto scales at some middle point in the evaporation process?

Lord knows we have no glitter around!

Originally Posted by dinnermint

First off, i think it would be neat to do the glitter in layers in a mold with a clear/semitransparent base. Second, could you melt some sacrificial scale, add glitter and the brush onto scales at some middle point in the evaporation process?

Things would have to be built in two layers. First is to build the last layer with the glitter design on it, and let cure. Then fill the mold with the clear resin, leaving enough room for the glitter layer, then set the cured glitter layer on top and clamp it to remove air bubbles...if there is any. (Vacuum forming would be best) like making marcata. Any other way, and I think the glitter will move all throughout the scales and break through the surface of the scales.
Giving a rough textured surface.
It has to be encapsulated inside the material

Originally Posted by outback

Things would have to be built in two layers. First is to build the last layer with the glitter design on it, and let cure. Then fill the mold with the clear resin, leaving enough room for the glitter layer, then set the cured glitter layer on top and clamp it to remove air bubbles...if there is any. (Vacuum forming would be best) like making marcata. Any other way, and I think the glitter will move all throughout the scales and break through the surface of the scales.
Giving a rough textured surface.
It has to be encapsulated inside the material

yup, i think like Mike it would need to be in layers. Maybe with 2 part poly resins you could time it in the thickening stage and get swirls of two coloured resins in the mold, but that would take some timing and practice.

With the dissolved acetate idea, the cure would be too slow to do much in a one pour process I figure.

I think the bartop epoxy on some thin liners would work. A base of silver, gold, whatever evenly sprinkled on the liners on a thin
coat, another thin coat on top, adding colors here, there, again as-desired and a top coat of epoxy on top.
Seems to be how they had to have done the celluloid ones, albeit using clear celluloid?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I think the bartop epoxy on some thin liners would work. A base of silver, gold, whatever evenly sprinkled on the liners on a thin
coat, another thin coat on top, adding colors here, there, again as-desired and a top coat of epoxy on top.
Seems to be how they had to have done the celluloid ones, albeit using clear celluloid?

Exactly......!!