Thread: Guitar theme Resto heartbreak..

ya know baldy, your pic has kind of inspired me.. My son loves to watch me shave. I let him with a bladeless de occasionally.. Maybe i'll take the edge off completely and let him "shave" with it... hmm..

Originally Posted by Ryno

ya know baldy, your pic has kind of inspired me.. My son loves to watch me shave. I let him with a bladeless de occasionally.. Maybe i'll take the edge off completely and let him "shave" with it... hmm..

That sucks...was looking really good. Funny, my little guy has watched me shave and always checks out my restores and asks "Daddy when are you gonna make one for me?" I too have thought about dulling one down and making it "just for him" lol

Know the feeling, I got a DD Dwarf in like new condition and we so excited, durring the honing I kept feeling a strange vibration with a weird squeek , took a look and there right in the middle was a crack that I though was a scratch or faint grind mark... Oh well... I'll re-pin it someday to some scales and put in the DOA/Collection box, still a beautiful razor, as is yours

Ryno, Great idea about using guitar string ends for washers. It is good to recycle things and make them one-of-a-kind usable items.

Use a Dremel cutoff abrasive disc carefully, and slowly cut that blade down to a stubby. I did that wih a Union 5/8 half hollow. Cutting should be made with many passes so that the blade metal will not get hot and anneal. I just made a spike tip on mine as a finish touch. That little razor was SO EASY to Hone and Strop! Since you got it for trimming, it would be a perfect candidate for that kind of salvage. Keep those scales and pins the way you made them, or make some compact scales to match the newly modified blade. Try that. Stubbies are neat and fast to maintain. Good luck. Thanks for sharing. Merry CHRISTmas to you, RRR

The stubby idea is a good one but the crack is about a 1/2 inch from stabilizer.. it's kind of a u shape thatstarts at the edge goes up a 1/8th and back down like a chunk is about to come off.. I don't know..

Btw, I dont think this was ever a 5/8 or even 4/8. That was my initial thought as well. The shoulder is different than any other wostenholm I've ever seen. On all the others I've seen, the stabilizer clearly comes down towards the edge but this one has no stabilizer at all, and was undercut past where it would be. That being said, I've never seen a one this small that was a near wedge before either so, who knows.. mute point now, but still interesting to me.