Thread: Advice on ivory tang restoration and scale selection

My current project is this old Boker with ivory tang. Pretty rough but I would love to make this work. I removed the scales it came with( nothing special and not original to the razor). The steel was rusted at the tang as you can see by the pitting. I want to make this a shaver. So...now do I paint the steel part of the tang, or use Ren wax? How do I keep it from rusting again? I would also love to find a way to restore the logo if anyone has any suggestions. That is the the hard part. Then what scales to put on it. I'm considering horn or ebony.

What makes you think its ivory? If you were to clean off the old rust and then coat it with Renaissance wax before re-assmbling it'd be good for decades. I'm not sure why these came out in two tone scales, but I've seen enough of them to know they're probably not a rescale. Here's one I have with scales that actually match. You see the scales for sale quite often in different states of repair on different razors
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Clean the rust, then use a really good epoxy to re-attach the tang cover, this will seal the area for more years then you need to worry about it an added bonus will be to strengthen the "Ivory" also

I have done quite a few of these now but here is the very first one also a Boker take a look it might give you some ideas

http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...t-acrylic.html

Originally Posted by puketui41

What makes you think its ivory? If you were to clean off the old rust and then coat it with Renaissance wax before re-assmbling it'd be good for decades. I'm not sure why these came out in two tone scales, but I've seen enough of them to know they're probably not a rescale. Here's one I have with scales that actually match. You see the scales for sale quite often in different states of repair on different razors
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Great. I'll look for the matching scales. I had looked a few weeks ago but no luck. That razor does look nice matched up. Any ideas on restoring the branding?

I thought it it was ivory because of this advertisement. Could just be a color discription I guess.

Super nice razor gssixgun!

You could possibly take a photo of the complete lettering to an engraver and get them to put a shallow engraving on it, then blend up some matching paint, fill the engraving and wipe off the excess

Originally Posted by Parker76

My current project is this old Boker with ivory tang. Pretty rough but I would love to make this work. I removed the scales it came with( nothing special and not original to the razor). The steel was rusted at the tang as you can see by the pitting. I want to make this a shaver. So...now do I paint the steel part of the tang, or use Ren wax? How do I keep it from rusting again? I would also love to find a way to restore the logo if anyone has any suggestions. That is the the hard part. Then what scales to put on it. I'm considering horn or ebony.

You might look in butchered blade.
MikeB52 just did a set recently, with ivory tang. A few pages back from the end .

You will find that standard pin stock at 1/16" is too big for the two retaining pins - cut about 1.5" and put it in a drill and use some wet 7 dry paper to take it down to the required size.

Great advice ukrob!

So I was almost done polishing and it was looking good. And then this happened.

So. Crap.