Thread: The Butchered Blade

I've decided to just buff out the blade & polish.
CR/OX & FLITZ.
Didn't see the need for sanding the poor thing. I can live with some pitting.

Im calling it good, on the blade.
Off to the scales.

Was busy on a Joseph Rogers restore. Wasn't beat up enough to be in this thread but am happy it's done, cept the honing. Posted it under the restoration sub.
That genco is worth the trouble IMO Mike, gonna be a fine yanky shaver.
Cheers

Where do I get that kit? Ill check online. Is there a better place to get it? Thanks for the tip!

I cant seem to find my thin CA. My micromesh got mixed up in the mail. My bandsaw blade just broke today and the spare was packaged wrong... too short! Gonna break out the hand saw but I need to cut this bog oak just right, dont have room to screw up so Im hesitant. The anchor is not back yet so I started on a W&B Celebrated FBU. Had some bad rust on the toe, may lose 1/16" there. Ill try to doctor it as best I can. So far its looking great! Ill get pics of the progress tomorrow. Gonna go ahead and put bog oak scales on it. My first celebrated! And Ive been VERY careful, dont want to screw it up. Has a 17/16" wide blade.

Pics are not that great but the rust on the toe is bad, jagged tip, pits. Luckily though it does not extend back far and the rest of the blade has some "tiny deep" pits but manageable.

[QUOTE=outback;1539218]I've decided to just buff out the blade & polish.
CR/OX & FLITZ.
Didn't see the need for sanding the poor thing. I can live with some pitting.

Im calling it good, on the blade.
Off to the scales.

Mike, it looks a lot better than it did the other night. The hone wear doesn't seem to appear as bad. It has some on one side & it looks like hardly nonr on the other. I think it is going to turn out a keeper.

Originally Posted by MikeT

Where do I get that kit? Ill check online. Is there a better place to get it? Thanks for the tip!

I cant seem to find my thin CA. My micromesh got mixed up in the mail. My bandsaw blade just broke today and the spare was packaged wrong... too short! Gonna break out the hand saw but I need to cut this bog oak just right, dont have room to screw up so Im hesitant. The anchor is not back yet so I started on a W&B Celebrated FBU. Had some bad rust on the toe, may lose 1/16" there. Ill try to doctor it as best I can. So far its looking great! Ill get pics of the progress tomorrow. Gonna go ahead and put bog oak scales on it. My first celebrated! And Ive been VERY careful, dont want to screw it up. Has a 17/16" wide blade.

Pics are not that great but the rust on the toe is bad, jagged tip, pits. Luckily though it does not extend back far and the rest of the blade has some "tiny deep" pits but manageable.

MikeT, I sent you a pm.

Sweet! Thanks, Im gonna go ahead and order it.
Im enjoying working with some of the natural finishes on some projects but Ive got some projects that I really need to bust out! So the CA with accelerator is gonna come in handy. Ive worked with CA a bunch but just never heard of that,, damn that wouldve been nice! lol
Oh and something that I forgot about, the CA actually doesnt dry as fast in dry climates, it dries faster with humidity. During the winter, my house was as warm and dry as an 80 yr old camels you know what, well I blew on the CA.. and the moisture helped it set. Looked it up and found it was indeed the humidity.
Another thing, just realized that 100% pure tung oil... takes... forever to dry!!! Dang. lmao! But I know some guys in the furniture and cabinet industry that really like it. Just gotta be patient, with some coats, and polishing it will in fact create a glossy finish, just takes time.
Some exotic woods are so oily and rot resistant that all is needed is high grit polishing and renwax. African Blackwood is amazing... Left it in my basement for a year, six other kinds of wood perished in the "Great Water Heater Disaster of 2013"... the African Blackwood not a single bit of mold or rot!!! Simply amazing, you shouldve seen the other wood pieces, they looked like they were about to crawl away and eat my cat! lol

I have a piece of Cocobolo that has a very slight warp or twist to it. I want to get it out & make it flat again but don't know how. I started on some horn scales for the Clark & Hall but I accidentally screwed up one piece they were put together with double sticky sided tape & by the time I got them even, they are too short so I put them aside for now. Maybe I'll come across a shorter blade for them. They're about 1/4" too short to use. I have more horn. I thought the Cocobolo might be good too.

Originally Posted by engine46

I have a piece of Cocobolo that has a very slight warp or twist to it. I want to get it out & make it flat again but don't know how. I started on some horn scales for the Clark & Hall but I accidentally screwed up one piece they were put together with double sticky sided tape & by the time I got them even, they are too short so I put them aside for now. Maybe I'll come across a shorter blade for them. They're about 1/4" too short to use. I have more horn. I thought the Cocobolo might be good too.

I dunno, it always freaks me out with warped materials, seem to have "memory"... I figure you might try to put the wood in a small turkey bag with a little neatsfoot oil and dunk that in real hot water for a bit. Pull it out and jig it. Never tried it but I cant imagine it wouldnt work. Figure the oil is more effective than simply steam..
EDIT: Uhhh, well to add to that I dont know if neatsfoot oil is good for wood...? is it?
if not maybe natural tung oil...?

Alright, fella's.
Day's work, on the scales today, went quite well.

Started at 12:00 noon.
Cut, shaped, thinned, beveled, CA'ed, sanded, polished, and pinned.

I couldn't believe it,
I didn't have a single mishap, fumbles or follies.
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY
by the way ,TOM!!
the scales are thinner, than the original plastic one's. [emoji6]

9:30 PM
Exact time of completion


Hmmm, mabye the brothers Griffin's?...... We'll see[emoji57]

A good day's labor, I'd say!

Looks great! You have the scale-making down-pat! Other stuff has kept me away from the razzers lately, but I see it everytime I go into the office.
I will get on it soon! OR, 'Get it on', so to speak!


Oh! That Griffon has it going-on, I think!