Thread: W&B 8/8 FBU shorty project

Originally Posted by JellyJar

Thanks for the offer, if you want to send some I'll be happy to try it for a future project.

I think the charcoal will work well. It's giving a nice black color and hasn't messed with the cure time. It's a little grainy, but I didn't grind it super fine, just smacked it with a hammer a few times. I'll run it through a mortar and pestle for the real fix.

The dye seems to have slowed the cure time for the epoxy and the color is purple when thin. I'll know for sure tomorrow. Oh, and this dye isn't a two part box dye. It's something called a pot dye my daughter told me about. It's premixed and stable for unknown amounts of time. Kind of a paste consistency. You can mix it with water or smear it on as the paste. $10 for a good size jar, probably get 20+ scale pairs from a jar. And as a bonus it smells like grape jelly . I haven't entirely decided if I'll use this or a box dye for the final soak. The purple tint makes me hesitate a bit.

The top left is the charcoal mix

Maybe leave out the dye. Just epoxy and filler of choice, let cure, sand to shape, steel wool to smooth it out. Then dye it.

That's how I do my horn repairs. Then soak um in Neatsfoot oil, of course.

PM me your address, I'll see if I can get some out to you tomorrow. I'm off work this Wednesday, my list of tadoo's for this winter are done, and I've still got some cash left over. Sooo, a bit of hunting in the wilds for the day, is in order.

Got my maps. Northern and Central/Southern, Ohio.
I'll be sticking with the best ones I've been to, in the northern section of the state.





Every red dot, indicates a antique store, or mall.

The malls are usually quite large. Like indoor flea markets, but harder to hagle prices. The owners of the mall make a percentage off the dealers that rent their spaces. Rarely is the seller there, so your dealing with the owners of the store. But they will contact the seller, if you have a legit offer.

I like the smaller stores. Prices are cheaper, and I can scan through them quicker, which means I can cover more miles and stores, in a shorter period of time.

The nice part about razors, is here in Ohio, bladed objects must be in a locked case. So all you need to look for is the glass cases. Brushes, strops n mugs, could be anywhere, so they get looked for after the razors.