My first re-scaling...comment please

Hi. This is my first attempts at rescaling a str8. It's an old Boker King Cutter that I partly restored the blade. The scales were broken so I had to redo them. I took mahogany wood, cut slabs of about +1/8", tape them with double face tape, drew the scale contour from original, marked and drilled the holes since the scale were still flat. Then I proceeded very carefully to sand the contour down to the mark with a 1" band sander than finished by hand sanding the sides and top/bottom parts. Took them apart, sanded the inside flat. For all the hand sanding I used 400, 800, 1500 sand paper. Finished them with hand rubbed boiled linseed oil.

Fasten the blade with nuts and bolts from Microfasteners.com. Didn't have the courage to pin then. I thought the little nuts were a bit thick so I sanded them down to about 2/3 of original thickness and rounded the head a bit. I used the bigger washers #0w inside and out. The smaller ones looked small, to small.

Honed the blade on Norton 4000, King S-3, Norton 8000 than strop. Don't have any finer stone. Just finished shaving with it and it's a shaver, maybe not the best in regards to your shave ready str8 but it's ok for me until I get finer hones.

Please leave any comments, good or bad, on my work.


Jacques
Quebec, Canada

Looks good to me! Way to jump in :) As soon as I get back to my shop I'm gonna try to whip out some to replace the SS ones on the wapi. Got any more planned?

Hate to say I'm not a huge fan of the grain. Other than that, in my very inexperienced opinion, I think the work is fantastic and that the idea of using tiny bolts and nuts is great.

Congrats.

I really like what you did with the nuts on the show side would love to see pics of the reverse too...
What wedge did you use, it looks like maybe brass????
If so great choice to match the pins (hardware)
As to the wood choice, and finish choice, that really doesn't matter what we think of the look, as the saying goes beauty is in the eye of the beholder..... it looks as though you did a very good job though, and that is really what counts....
(I like the mahogany look BTW) :)

I think it's awesome how easy you make it sound. "I just slapped these together since I had a few minutes." :)

They look very nice.

I think you did a great job.

John

The scales look great... I like those "low rider" bolts.

Gives me ideas... the bolt countersink into the scales.

Nice work.

Very fine job, in my opinion. Like the naturally look of the wood.

I´m really suprised about the Florena tube at the picture. Its an shave product, produced primary in east germany. I never had thought, that it is available in canada.

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Originally Posted by smythe

Gives me ideas... the bolt countersink into the scales

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That would be awesome.

Guys have done the countersunk bolts thing- in my opinion it looks pretty bad. The bolt side ends up being flat for the most part while to maintain the "adjustability" the other side protrudes. Maybe try sinking the bolts halfway and then sanding the screw head?

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Originally Posted by Buddel

Very fine job, in my opinion. Like the naturally look of the wood.

I´m really suprised about the Florena tube at the picture. Its an shave product, produced primary in east germany. I never had thought, that it is available in canada.

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It's very easy to get around here, in the old "florena" form and the new "Nivea for Men" form.

Very nice job! She looks great!! :tu

Hey Jacques,

Nice work!! Looks great!! And for your detractor(s), what do they know from grain? Guard the door; I hear a path being beaten there as I type.:tu

florena is available in canada in walmart.

Nice detail work. Grain is a matter of taste and you have done a nice job. I'd love to see the spacer and how you finished the other side.

I also like the look of rounding the nuts but am finding I also like to disassemble and polish my razors on sundary night.
I am going to try sanding down my nuts as well (ack... that might hurt)

Your first is certainly better than my first.

Welcome :)

-Bob
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Thanks everybody for your encouragement you are very kind.

Here are picture of the "reverse side" for those of you who are curious.
As you can see the "nuts" are still "unscrewable" for a quick take down.
I had to take the two tiny wrenchs to the bench and sand them down a bit so they could catch those thin nuts.

The wedge (not really wedge but straight) is made of "canary wood". It's like a zebra wood but lighter in color and the lines are not as dark.

My next project will be a Genco 6/8 with new scales in Amarante wood, a violet color wood, very hard…very hard to sand down.

I'll put pictures up when I'm done or take picture as I go along making them.


Jacques
Quebec, Canada
P.S. The Florina shaving cream is sold at Wal-Mart for 3,99$ and it is as good as 30$ plus soaps and creams.

Very very nice work!!! thanks for the other pics !!!!!
Just a reminder the Restoration Chat is every Tuesday night at 8:00pm EST....

Very nice! Excellent job for a first time!

-Pary

Good job. I like the way you cut the profile on the hardware.

Beautiful work on that razor. Thanks for sharing.
Ernest

Definitely a nice job. The body shop has a shaving cream that is a step up on the Forena but it's quite a bit more pricey.

- Bob
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Great job mon bon mec! Much better than my first scales... Nice fit and finish.

I LOVE the nuts and bolts. Very Steampunk! Great job!!!:tu

+1 for a good looking razor. Nice job.

That second set of pic's really showed what a nice set of scales you made! Congrats on the great work.

Exelent,very nice job !!!!








RPR.

I for one think you've done a excellent job .I'm starting to get inspired enough to do some work of my own once I get hold of some decent bone.
Paul

Hi.

After all those nice replies I'll try to make a step by step scale making thread with pictures.

Check the restoration section in the next days


Jacques

another :tu

Can I ask were you got those tiny brass nuts and bolts.

Dude that's gorgeous! I'd love to try making some nice wood scales!

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Hi.

After all those nice replies I'll try to make a step by step scale making thread with pictures.

Check the restoration section in the next days


Jacques

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I would appreciate this SO MUCH.