A huge W&B with freemansons-symbols. The handle is from walnutwood and swiss pearwood. It should be a wall ;)
The buttspacer is from brass and green Horn. The finish is shellac.
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A huge W&B with freemansons-symbols. The handle is from walnutwood and swiss pearwood. It should be a wall ;)
The buttspacer is from brass and green Horn. The finish is shellac.
Sweet! That is one nice razor! Really interesting pins too! Great job...I'm sure it shaves like a dream as well!
Mark
Love the way you incorporate brass into your spacer. I'm going to try that soon. :bow
Where do you get the horn for that spacer?
From an old broken W&B horn handle.
Now that is one magical razor!
Absolutely superb. Frankly, it just shows I have some catching up to do. :tu It never ceases to amaze me how creative some folks are. I would've never thought to 'zip' two woods together like that, and it just set off about a thousand ideas in my head. I hope you don't mind if I use these as inspiration.
Really... you are teasing us with those scales. When are you going to start selling the scales so we can all have such beautiful razors? :cry:
I like the "craft look" you went for very consistent and nicely done.
Those scales are absolutely marvelous. I love the way you joined the two wood species. I've never seen anything like it. Like Joe Chandler said, it opens up a whole new world of possibilities for creating stunning and original scales. Would you mind revealing to us something of your methods for joining those two woods?
I like the spacer and I like the blade. Admirable work. The "scriblings" one the blade are quite original. Another great idea that's new to me, and opens another world of possiblities. I think that could be developed further, specially as a great way to decorate wedge-style blades.
On the 5th photo, I noticed a shim next to the blade. Is it there to make the fit more snugly? Or just a slight color variation in the wood?
what an outstanding job, the organic feel of it is incredible. You blew my mind.
Thanks for sharing.
I think he posted instructions before the crash...
The "scriblings" were etched into the blade originally, no? I have an E.L. & Co. 8/8 that came with similar masonic symbols that were etched into it when it was new.
Very nice work! Excellent spacer idea too.
I gotta say, I've never seen scales quite like this. Blades, yes, but not scales. In that respect, I'd say it's truly original. I think I've figured out how to do it myself, but I won't, if buddel has a problem with it. If he doesn't, I can guarantee a set using similar construction in the future.
I forget exactly how he explained it before (I believe it was him who did a set like this recently). It was something like he glued the two different woods together and cut the shapes out, he was left with matching pieces.
I was thinking you could just cut one scale then cut it to half the shape. Then just trace that piece onto another piece of wood and cut out the remainder. You should be able to get pretty exact like that.
Thanks a lot. Yes, the blade is in original conditions. In this case, I didnt do nothing on it (even the honing not ;) ). There is no liner or shim, thats look only at the photo so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bart
Before the server crash i posted here my first try in this technic.
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/6852/lueders1oc8.jpg
How you can see, the wood here are closer together. The myrtle I used was softer, than the swiss peartree. So I could use a jigsawblade with a thickness from 0.16 mm. Now this sawblades always were broken, so I used in the end a blade with a diameter of 0.28 mm. Thats why here the glueline is wider.
Sadly my explanation is also now in the server - nirvana. And this with my weak english :td
Well, you have to cut 4 planks of wood, 2 dark, 2 lighter. Than glue them together, with a sheet of neewspaper between each plank. Use here simply woodglue. After that cut with an electrical jigsaw your scales. Than cut the woods there, where you plan to glue the two different colored woods togheter. Use here a jigsaw blade as thin, as possible and a very slow cutting speed.
Now you have two pieces of wood, each with 4 layers. Now you can seperate with a razor blade (not straight) or an thin, sharp knife the two dark wood blanks from the 2 light. The only thing you must do now is to glue the darker wood on the lighter. Use a strong epoxy with a long harden time (12 hours).
Man, those scales are so nice. Absolutely beautiful to look at. I hope you don't mind, but I might try and use your two wood idea when I re-scale my Fili...
Great work, thanks for sharing.
-Pary
Dang, I just thought about doing this exact thing a few days ago. I guess we're tuned in to the same station. I'm waiting on some blades and blanks to actually try it, but I'll be sure to call them "Buddel" style scales!
I woke up this morning after a couple of days of not getting it and finally understood your instructions. I've seen this done with straight edges and cutting boards but as done this is just really neat.
A bit advance for me but I'm certainly going to give it a shot on my 10th set of scales. My first set has a striking similarity to a pair of popsicle sticks.
- Bob
:eek: Really?? In the last two weaks I had some of this experiences. I thought on a person, that I not called more than a half year, on this day he wrote me an email. I phoned an old school friend, he told me he had sent a week ago a short message to me - but on an old telephone-number, that I dont more use...Quote:
Originally Posted by floppyshoes
:hmmm:
Those scales you made earlier are as beautiful as the last ones. Thanks for the explanation. Like many great ideas it's as simple as it's brilliant. We normal mortals always tend to wonder: "now why didn't I come up with that myself", but of course we never do. :thinking:;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Buddel
So, the scriblings were an original feature? First time I saw something like that. They match beautifully with the shape of the glue line in that W&B's scales.
Keep posting,
Bart.
That is really beautiful work. The scales and blade go very well together. :tu
my understanding:Quote:
Originally Posted by Buddel
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/...949af97a_o.jpg
i know im not understanding something right....
You have the right idea, sort of.
There should be enough for 2 sets of scales minimum.
It may not be Buddel's exact process, but see my how-to here:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...lanks-how.html
Picture 1 - 3 is right. But I only cutted 1 scale pair. Dont stack them together like it shown in pic 4. This would be to thick to make a very fine cut with the saw. To cut 4 blanks with one time is difficult enough. For the cut at the Gotta I neede more than 1 hour with the best saw blades I could find.Quote:
Originally Posted by The0ctopus
Picture 5 is o.k. Picture 6 would be to separate the darker from the lighter wood. Not seperate all blanks. Then glue it together like in pic. 6. The glue has more space "to work", if you dont glue every blank seperatelly.
:tu thats it
Cool, I frecvently experience the same things with some of my close friends. In Norway we call this " Vardøgr "Quote:
Originally Posted by Buddel
The vardøger or vardøgr is a spirit predecessor, from Norwegian folklore. Stories typically include instances that are nearly déjà vu in substance, but in reverse, where a spirit with the subject's footsteps, voice, scent, or appearance and overall demeanor precedes them in a location or activity, resulting in witnesses believing they've seen or heard the actual person, before the person physically arrives. This bears a subtle difference from a doppelgänger, with a less sinister connotation. It has been likened to being a phantom double, or form of bilocation.
The word vardøger is a Norwegian term defined as "a premonitory sound or sight of a person before he arrives.
Amund.