Thread: New Idea??? Experimentation....

Originally Posted by Nphocus

Please do not put a razor with the scales on in a tumbler... that's just not going to turn out well... pinning isn't hard at all and the brass for the pin is cheap. You can do it with a kitchen spoon... and running it on a buffer is also going to be pretty dangerous, you are better off trying to use a dremel or a jeweler's polishing tool or something along those lines that smaller and speed adjustable.

I find it amusing that you use the term, "pretty dangerous" for a buffer and then recommend a Dremel. Are you serious?

Originally Posted by ProudMarineDad

I find it amusing that you use the term, "pretty dangerous" for a buffer and then recommend a Dremel. Are you serious?

Come on ProudMarineDad... What could go wrong with using a dremel.... Lol

I've been around for a while doing this razor thing. You can ask others or look in the other forums... some of the best have had some pretty horrendous accidents running a razor across a buffer... but I'm just putting my 2 cents out there. There's nothing stopping you from taping off your blade and locking it in a bench vise and then doing the work you need to do with the dremel... or take your chances with gloves and a buffing wheel.. whatevs... I was in the Air Force for a reason leatherneck

Originally Posted by Nphocus

I've been around for a while doing this razor thing. You can ask others or look in the other forums... some of the best have had some pretty horrendous accidents running a razor across a buffer... but I'm just putting my 2 cents out there. There's nothing stopping you from taping off your blade and locking it in a bench vise and then doing the work you need to do with the dremel... or take your chances with gloves and a buffing wheel.. whatevs... I was in the Air Force for a reason leatherneck

Dremels are okay IF and that's a BIG IF, the person using it KNOWS how to use it.
That means knowing which way the tool is turning, making SURE the blade does NOT get hot to ruin the temper and having the patience to use it CAREFULLY!

Originally Posted by Nphocus

I've been around for a while doing this razor thing. You can ask others or look in the other forums... some of the best have had some pretty horrendous accidents running a razor across a buffer... but I'm just putting my 2 cents out there. There's nothing stopping you from taping off your blade and locking it in a bench vise and then doing the work you need to do with the dremel... or take your chances with gloves and a buffing wheel.. whatevs... I was in the Air Force for a reason leatherneck

I think the simple reason that buffers are safer that Dremels is because you always know what direction the buffer is spinning. As you are re-positioning and dealing with both sides of the blade using a Dremel, it's too easy to forget which way the Dremel wheel is spinning relative to the edge of the blade.

Hah, true, but doesn't that advice apply to everything Come on now, some of us are grownups.... a little bit.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I think the simple reason that buffers are safer that Dremels is because you always know what direction the buffer is spinning. As you are re-positioning and dealing with both sides of the blade using a Dremel, it's too easy to forget which way the Dremel wheel is spinning relative to the edge of the blade.

Exactly my friend. I have been a plastic modeler for 30 years and worked around metal and wood tools since I was a kid so I am no stranger to tools and the dangers of them.
Yes a buffer can be very dangerous as can a bandsaw, tablesaw, lathe, mill, or any other number of things.

Anyways, the tumbler is a great way to go.

Originally Posted by Chevhead

Anyways, the tumbler is a great way to go.

I do agree my friend but I hate to have to unpin a razor with the original pins in perfectly good shape.

Originally Posted by Nphocus

Hah, true, but doesn't that advice apply to everything Come on now, some of us are grownups.... a little bit.

As my father who was a mechanic, welder and a machinist used to like to say:

"Ya gotta be smarter than the thing your trying to operate".

The problem as I see it is that there are way too many out there that aren't that smart and get hurt because they get lulled into a false sense of security and get out smarted by a machine with no brain.