Thread: My First Full Restoration

looks good i have not started to restore yet but hope to start soon i hope my first restore comes out looking that good

I am sorry for the misunderstanding. THe blade is a hollow ground. What I meant was the scales I used for templates were off of a small Salamander wedge blade. THe blade ia a straight Spencer and I figure its a 1/2 hollow ground at least to me. I am going to the nearest hardware store tomorrow to do what Bruno said. I have some Riobi Emery Buffing compound to start with and use my batter powered Dremel to polish it out. THanks a lot for the comments!

I have shaved with it and it does great! I am about to buy a new coticule as soon as I find one I like to use as a finshing hone. THen it could possibly be better
Thanks for the input!

Hey Trey- I agree with all of the aforementioned stuff and Glen's finish suggestion would work well with this set of scales.

One more suggestion that i have: The pins at the spacer. This is a tricky thing. I know that anything can be personal preference, but I think you could do better on the pin placement with regard to the shape of the end. They seem a little skewed and not in a good line with the shape of the end/scales. You need to always measure MULTIPLE times before you make the move if you know what I mean. Also, it is once again a personal thing, but on a blade this small-ish I think that a single centered pin would look better. Not that it is even crowded or anything, but I think it would give it a smoother look with a nice artistic line. These are all things to consider and that will improve with practice once you get your own knack for it.

I agree, but I had not used a drill press before. Because of this I placed the holes a little out of line. The scales are big, but the next ones I make will be better.

Did you say you will polish with a battery powered Dremel? It can be frustrating when the battery dies before you are satisfied with the finish.
If you will be doing this kind of thing frequently, i suggest you get a line powered dremel... and make sure it can go sloooow... like 5000 RPM.
Also you may find hand sanding the blade up to 2000 grit w/d sandpaper before the dremel and CRO2 makes polishing go quicker.

Yes, and it wil run as low as 1000rpms. I will run an hour or so between charges because it has a lithium battery. Its as powerful as the corded, but it does have to recharge after running about an hour or so. I also have already used the 2000grit paper and it does help.Thanks for the suggestions though and I will remember them in the future.

Originally Posted by smythe

Did you say you will polish with a battery powered Dremel? It can be frustrating when the battery dies before you are satisfied with the finish.
If you will be doing this kind of thing frequently, i suggest you get a line powered dremel... and make sure it can go sloooow... like 5000 RPM.
Also you may find hand sanding the blade up to 2000 grit w/d sandpaper before the dremel and CRO2 makes polishing go quicker.

Which Dremel model runs at 1000 rpms? I didn't know any of them ran at less than 5K.

The dremel I use is the only battery powered one I know of and I bought mine at Home Depot. On the power dial it goes from 0-10. I made a mistake though because I just read that the settings form 1-10 goes from 5,000 to 35,000 rpms, I assumed the dial meant 1x10^3 RPMS. I used the lowest settingd to polish though and the finish was much improved with just the riobi polishing compound.

Does anyone know where I can by plastic spacers for these razors because they could be made much smoother than the wood spacer, because I had as much trouble making the spacer as I did anything else. I think a black spacer would still look classy maybe and be more durable than the wood. Any comments or ideas on this will be appreciated because I am debating also cutting some bone scales for my next project. As for this one, its going to my 87 year old grandfather after I have a Jeweler engrave his initials on it. I am going to change my blog tomorrow because I think it would be worth more to him than anyone on the site. My next project is an old H. Boker French Point that if it turns out as I wish, may be something everyone can see if I am improving.