Thread: Wapi(s) deluxe

Good evening Gentlemen,
After seeing all those nice works from you guys here, and after now 7 days of shaving with a str8 - getting better every day - I was tempted to upgrade some of my Wapis. The 9/16 blade got natural colored Pakkawood scales, bought at Classic Shaving, then mounted to a C.F. Schwartz razor, that turned out to be un-honable (at least for me), finally removed them and put them on a new 9/16 Wapi blade that certainly deserves them.

The second one is a 5/8 Wapi, bought shave ready from heavydutysg135 with original metal scales. Its new scales are self made out of a piece of a sheet of clear acrylic, bought at Home Depot. I like simple solutions. The spacer is cut out of a Canadian 5 Cent coin. Pins are made out of brass rod and tubing, the tubing is also used to fill the space inside the pivot hole of the blade. This had to be adjusted a little.
My thanks go to Bill Ellis for sending me his CD. I learned quite a bit from it, I believe. Thanks, Bill!

Klaus -
Nice job! I love my Wapies and yours sure look stylin' now!

Wow, I sure like those clear scales, what a cool spacer.
Both razors look great, But those clear scales just really do it for me. COOL!
Charlie

Klaus those razors look outstanding, love the idea using a coin as a spacer and being able to view it through clear acrylic really gives me some ideas.

Again outstanding.

Great idea with the acrylic. What grit did you take it to?

I can only say that i am truly feeling a lot of respect for this job.
Congratulations....
Doe this mean you are our new scalemaister?

Seriously ...have you consider to scale razors for aficionados? how much it will cost with shipping to get some blades in those wood ones?

Originally Posted by Kyle76

Great idea with the acrylic. What grit did you take it to?

I'm not quite sure I understand your question correctly, but let me try to explain the process:
After cutting the raw outline with the band saw, I roughly shaped them with a "fast cutter" wheel on my lathe. Then I used different rotating carbide tools in a "Dremel" type dental hand piece, then a rubber polisher, and last a felt wheel with a polishing paste for dental acrylics, and finally with Maas. Did this answer your question?

Thanks everybody for your nice comments!

Originally Posted by sergiobruna

Seriously ...have you consider to scale razors for aficionados? how much it will cost with shipping to get some blades in those wood ones?

Cute!
I don't think I would ever do this kind of job to generate income. My hourly rates are so high, I can hardly afford my own work myself.

Seriously, those wooden scales can be bought at Classicshaving.com for about $25, I believe. Putting them on a blade is not exactly rocket science. OK, I have to admit that being used to working with small parts helps a bit.
I don't plan to do any more custom scales in the nearest future, unless of course the razor fairy strikes me with an irresistible idea.

Amazing work! The clear scales are super! You are definitely an artiste! What do you do as a profession (you commented about working with small parts).

Great job! Inspiring!

Greg