Thread: Tools

One some of the razor repair YouTube videos, they insert a tool that surrounds the pin while they file. What is it called and where can I find one?

Thanks in advance for your help

I'm not sure, I have not been much of a you tube follower of strait razor repairs. It sounds like it would be a pice of metal with a hole in it that people make as a guard to keep from accidentally hitting the scales with the file. It kind of makes a mess if you do hit the scale, and then you have to fix the mar. I often use tape and tape over the pin and then file through the tape and file the pin off. Both masking tape and electrical tape are around the bench pretty steady and the both work well, and just cut a short piece so it is one layer. I'm often more careful about those things when it is going together as opposed to coming apart.

Here's the cheapest, and in my opinion, the best.

Note: Dull the edges of a used DE blade, with your file, first.

Good idea. On another note it is pretty easy to make a jig to punch out a hole in them if you want a smaller or larger hole. I also know of one knife maker that uses razor blades to make washers for his folders, not sure if that'd work well or not for a SR as I'd think brass would be better.

I make my own wear washer/shims out of .005 - .016 brass sheets.

And you can use the diamond cutout in the blade as well. It will accommodate the bullseye type collars.

Piece of electrical tape works…

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Piece of electrical tape works…

Yep electrical tape, and scotch tape both work well. I typically save all my collars, and only file enough to create a flat spot for drilling with a pin vise. So the blade gets used more often. But you can still file them completely off too, should you wish.

I haven't seen the video, but I bet it was an eraser shield. They are/were used in drafting and art work to allow you to erase a pencil line without messing up the lines around the area. I must say, I like the DE blade better though.

Originally Posted by criswilson10

I haven't seen the video, but I bet it was an eraser shield. They are/were used in drafting and art work to allow you to erase a pencil line without messing up the lines around the area. I must say, I like the DE blade better though.

Until you slip and your finger jambs into the rusty ol' DE blade!

For tape.... I honestly like masking tape. Back when I worked as a gunsmith, installing recoil pads on shotguns. We would have to grind down the recoil pad (rubber and hard plastic/resin) so the easy way was a 60 grit powered disk which would let you match the angle to the gun stock. Naturally, you would not want to mark the finish on the stock so I'd use masking tape. If the grit ever caught the tape, it would just tear and roll up, pushing the stock away from the disk. Naturally, I would avoid it if possible, preferring to sneak up with a file at the end. However, filing by hand is really slow when we're talking rubber.

The same trick worked as I finished the job using a coarse file reserved from day one for recoil pad work ONLY. Touch that file to steel once, and it would never cut rubber cleanly again. The file, when it got close, would catch the masking tape and again, it would tear, roll up and push the file away. All I had to do was replace the tape and finish the job. We didn't have green tape back then... just the regular stuff.