Thread: Wosty and Sheffield restore

Here are a couple restorations I did recently, one I did I tried to keep everything original and it came out great. The makers mark was very faded in the first place which is a shame but I still think it came out great!

the other is a Sheffield brand razor that was a friend of mines, it was his grandfathers and he dropped the razor and the scales cracked... He said he felt sick to his stomach when the scales were damaged... I hated that it was something so valuable and it was in the condition it was, but it also was a lot of pressure know how much it meant to him. I have never restored a razor that had so much sentimental value so it was very stressful to say the least. But I gave her some new shoes, she's sitting in some streaked horn with a camel bone wedge. The razor wasn't sitting center and it actually took a lot of work and some play with the wedge to make it center. All in all fun experience and I'm glad to have had it!

actually I have a question about the wedge, making it have more of the taper on one side so the blade sits even, is there any down side to doing that? In this particular situation I only made the taper on one side while the other side was flat... It actually took making 3 wedges before I finally just only tapered one side Hahaha...

thanks guys!
Fonz

Usually for me ,,,getting the blade to center is in the pivot end. A wedge is a wedge and the angle will be used evenly by both sides. To center at the pivot you can either sand the inside of the scales enough to move the blade OR when you pin if you tap the front of the pin (the side closest to the wedge end) it will drive the blade to the other side. same holds true if you drive the pin on the back ( side away from the wedge end) on the other side. Hope you get that picture :<0)

Hey, is that a Barbie band aid ?

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Usually for me ,,,getting the blade to center is in the pivot end. A wedge is a wedge and the angle will be used evenly by both sides. To center at the pivot you can either sand the inside of the scales enough to move the blade OR when you pin if you tap the front of the pin (the side closest to the wedge end) it will drive the blade to the other side. same holds true if you drive the pin on the back ( side away from the wedge end) on the other side. Hope you get that picture :<0)

Hey, is that a Barbie band aid ?

That makes perfect sense, I'll have to give that a go on my next blade! And it's actually a frozen band-aid... I'm too high class for Barbie lol

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Usually for me ,,,getting the blade to center is in the pivot end. A wedge is a wedge and the angle will be used evenly by both sides. To center at the pivot you can either sand the inside of the scales enough to move the blade OR when you pin if you tap the front of the pin (the side closest to the wedge end) it will drive the blade to the other side. same holds true if you drive the pin on the back ( side away from the wedge end) on the other side. Hope you get that picture :<0)

Hey, is that a Barbie band aid ?

Is this done before the wedge pin is totally tightened.

Originally Posted by outback

Is this done before the wedge pin is totally tightened.

Thats what I figured. I use a similar method with some that wont line up just right.
Ill use the tang, ( blade just clearing scales) to apply pressure to one side or the other, to make it center.
Or open it fully, and twist it. If it's just the edge of the blade thats giving me the trouble. Then tighten the wedge pinn.

Thanks
Mike