Thread: New Restoration Project

I am removing all material that Lerch may find offensive or construe as a personal attack... bye bye, now...

Originally Posted by urleebird

Excellent contribution.
Let everyone know what you used to back up the material you put holes in. Wood? Rubber? Concrete? The back of little brother's head?

For backing I just used a piece of scrap 2X6 sitting on my workbench. the 2X6 is soft enough not to damage the edge of the punch once it cuts through the material.

By the way, I got about 19 - 1" discs out of each 6" disc that I punched holes through. The 6" psa discs cost roughly $0.60 each, so that puts the cost of each 1" disc at just over $0.03 each - this is considerably cheaper than the pre sized versions.

I was also thinking about punching some wet/dry sand paper and using 3m spray disc adhesive to attach these discs - or even better, some of the psa film from handamerican - this would allow for a greater variation in grit choices.

Well I finished this blade. I took the scales of and repinned it (my first try). I rebeveled it with my 220 Japanese waterstone which is slower cutting than you might think. I got a nice smooth edge under 200x and am ready to start shave honing it. Thanks for all the input guys.

Beautiful job. I just finished restoreing a DD satinedge, not as high polished as yours, but a great shaver.

Larry,

As we say down home..."that's purty"!

Looks great!

RT

Originally Posted by Korndog

I think I got it Bill. Thanks. Video sounds great; can't wait.

I would love to see the video. I would be willing to pay a reasonable fee, and I am sure many other members feel the same as I do. That is a beautiful razor and you did right to restore it.

Really nice looking job. Bravo and congrats!

Originally Posted by Korndog

... Here's a shot after doing some buffing after the 15. You can still see the fine lines from the last sanding (very faint), but it's close to a mirror "type" finish. ...

Larry, I was re-reading your beautiful restoration project and was wondering: after polishing, do you see all the fine lines from the last grit or just a few very fine ones?

Because if it is just a few then they are not the last sanding with 15 micron but the previous grit. I've been having this issue come up a few times. If the previous grit is almost sanded out, the lines are not seen until you sand most the current grit lines out with the next higher grit.

Did not realize this was a vision thing until my eight year old wanted to see how a razor is restored. He could see the faint lines and kept telling me they are there while I could only pick them out after sanding with the next grit.

Now I step back to the previous grit when I see the lines come out, otherwise they magically appear after polishing.

I am removing all material that Lerch may find offensive or construe as a personal attack... bye bye, now...