Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by outback

Well ....? Tell us about it DAMMIT, hell i dont even know!!. [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

Okay, the knot is from TGN. It's their Finest F2.
The wood rim is African Blackwood with 3 pins holding it on. It took some tinkering but was fairly simple once i got going. Took a bit longer to make because of some technical issues.
Should have annealed the pins.
But it was fun to step outside my regular routine of straight razor scales..

MAN! Thats the shizzle! A genuine Liberace shaving brush! Set it on your piano for inspiration, outback!
Reminds me of MikeT's first scales! Awesome and WAY overdone!

Does it light up?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

MAN! Thats the shizzle! A genuine Liberace shaving brush! Set it on your piano for inspiration, outback!
Reminds me of MikeT's first scales! Awesome and WAY overdone!

Does it light up?

Dammit Tom, you are gonna make me pee my pants and THEN go curl up in fetal position in the shower with a bottle of whisky! Why didn't I think of LIGHTS??? I'm such a fool!
Ehem, and for your information, it is a simple and very functional design. Very.

HAR! It's great, MikeT. Really very cool! (I cannot stop giggling, however)
What a cool gesture. What a fun thread!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

MAN! Thats the shizzle! A genuine Liberace shaving brush! Set it on your piano for inspiration, outback!
Reminds me of MikeT's first scales! Awesome and WAY overdone!

Does it light up?

I Could. Put some christmas lites on it i suppose.

And I would if i had a piano.
I could glue the base to the top of my 75 watt guitar amp. But it would shake the hair out of the knot... Im serious!!!! I've changed the decore of the whole house before. Came upstairs after jammin out some mettalica, and thought someone ransacked my house. Dishes on the floor, stuff from shelves on floor , things everywhere that weren't heavy had moved[emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

Hell yeah this is a great thread! Three cheers for Mike B52 for starting it and Tom for cracking the whip!

Originally Posted by MikeT

I know, I was just joking around.
But the inlay would not need to go right? Couldnt it be cut down from the pivot? Now I need to go back and look, I was sure it could be saved... ?

Edit: Just went back and looked, hell yeah the inlay will be saved. just cut a bit down from the pivot... It will look great.

Now I'm back after a few hours on the phone & a shower!
Yeah sure they could be cut but I was thinking what if he ever got a nice normal blade again? That would be the place to cut it is at the pivot. The Schrade I cut, I cut the scales down too & they aren't nothing special but I wish I wouldn't have done it. I have plenty of broken scales I could have used instead that are broke off at the pivot endor wedge end for all that matters.

Originally Posted by outback

Ok, sorry everyone, im back.
Wife got a job, and this was here first night, so me and the kid went out for dinner.
But to final adue.

" Mike Ts " First brush...!!!
A very neat bit of ingenuity, i must say. Thanks mike, that was very gracious and unexpected, especially being your first.

Very nice.
Sorry for the surrounding, but my best lit area is my honing station.
" Imagine That "

Mike..... You might want to explain your work to the folks your self .
Dont want ta put word in your mouth that wernt true

MikeT.............man, what an awesome f&%#ing brush!!!!! It looks like a candlestick holder to me but Holy Shazaaaaam Batman..................
That is definitely different & I love it! Now I know something else I can make once i get something over here. I'm not going to mention it. I just need a friend with a pickup truck.

Originally Posted by MikeT

Hell yeah this is a great thread! Three cheers for Mike B52 for starting it and Tom for cracking the whip!

I had to get on the phone & call the national Post office to make a complaint......................again. Third time in the past 3 weeks! I also had to call someone else because something else happened but I'm not going to mention my issues here. Just another one of those days!!!!!!
I've been trying to get a set of scales loose from a Torrey Razor with the woman on the scales but the blade is worn out. I figured i could put the Torrey blade I had to grind the chip out of in those. I can see that are already not lined up & that is a Torrey flaw since those don't have a wedge pin! May have to sand on 'em a little to make 'em look right. I'm so hungry now I can feel my backbone snatchin' at my belly button so I guess I'll put a frozen pizza in the oven!

MikeT...................super fantastic f*&%ing job!!!!!!!

I like that Liberace brush a lot! very neat idea and great execution Mike.
Will stand proud on the counter for sure!
Also great idea to send out that smiley for professional treatment. Worth the attention. Came out so well.
This thread is almost 90 pages now, but full of some fine blades and bits of information on cool saves of clunkers.
Thanks for all the continued enthusiasm gents.
Check out Cuda's thread in the conversation on his cousin "Remembering a Warrior" as well. A great read that will warm your heart if your blood still flows.
Back to the shop for a bit o sanding and another finger of bourbon.
Cheers.

Thanks a million Steve! I appreciate all the awesome feedback, especially coming from guys who know how to make cool s&!+ and have a good eye for craftsmanship..

Now that you mention it, I'll be going crazy wondering what it is that you will need a pickup truck for!

Also, you have a good point. Those are good adoration scales, if he saves them, makes new ones, then we could find good blade for them... valid point. They'd what I'd do too.

I have posted 81 pics in this thread. Get it on, Gents! HAR!