Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by engine46

Here's a pic of the Clark & Hall after I cleaned the blade up some but still need a sanding stick. I don't have a paint stick but I'll find something.
Also a pic of the Torrey blade that was chipped on the toe. I ground it off with my belt sander & barely took any metal off so it should be like a normal length straight minus a few thousandths. It was already a round point, I might have taken 1/32" at the most off of it if that!

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Lookin good Steve.
Like the lines on those two, the Clark in Hall especially. [emoji106]

It is so hard to do any work on the tang of a Torrey and have any mark left, unless it is a really old one.
They are looking like a fine start.

Originally Posted by outback

Lookin good Steve.
Like the lines on those two, the Clark in Hall especially. [emoji106]

Thanks mike. It took me long enough but I found it, this thread is so long...................
If you go back to post 215, page 22, you will see the difference I already made with the C&H.

Originally Posted by RezDog

It is so hard to do any work on the tang of a Torrey and have any mark left, unless it is a really old one.
They are looking like a fine start.

Thanks Shaun. Yeah, it's ashamed that is one of the later Torrey's but I still love it for the shoulders blade. I was making bone scales for it but they got kinda off some & ended up a hair shorter which wasn't a problem. They still would have worked until I drilled my pin holes. I drilled my wedge hole about 1/16" too close 7 now they won't work with that blade but I looked through my blades & I have a Case Temperite blade that will work just fine.

Hey guys...
Gotta question concerning a set of scales i have ,on a Bengall razor i just happened across today.

The scales are translucent, and look to be delaminating, and also cracks up and down the length .
There's no grain mark like horn. It's smooth like plastic, but I've never seen plastic delaminate like this.

Hopefully the pics help.
The dark spots are stains, on &in the scales.
Hot needle test, smells like hair burning.
So whats your thoughts gentlemen......?

Mike

outback:
Hey guys...
Gotta question concerning a set of scales i have ,on a Bengall razor i just happened across today.

The scales are translucent, and look to be delaminating, and also cracks up and down the length .
There's no grain mark like horn. It's smooth like plastic, but I've never seen plastic delaminate like this.

Hopefully the pics help.
The dark spots are stains, on &in the scales.
Hot needle test, smells like hair burning.
So whats your thoughts gentlemen......?

Mike

Hey Mike, good question! I have a few that are like that & so far, I have not found out a way to fix that. One thing I haven't tried is soaking them awhile in neat foot oil but I doubt that would do it. I have always had to make a new set of scales if I didn't have another good pair to replace 'em with.

But what are they made of, that's my main question

Originally Posted by outback

But what are they made of, that's my main question

Honey horn. They look like imitation tortoise scales.

Goin for a oil bath then, before I pull it appart.

Originally Posted by outback

Goin for a oil bath then, before I pull it appart.

There have been a couple of members who have tried to imitate them using dye but I can't remember if they were successful or not. Zak did a writeup on it somewhere but I would have to find it.

Outback, I took a pair of scales of a Reynolds this weekend that resemble those. I agree with Steve; pretty sure they are dyed horn. Mine were de-laminating to the extreme and cracked through in a couple of spots.

The good side.