Thread: First restore in progress--Dubl Duck Perlduck

Also, I picked up the supplies for my next big adventure into razor restoring. Any guesses what I'm doing??

Yay, updates!!!

1. Fitting the wedge. Glad I lost the first one I made. I got to looking at some of the old pictures and I noticed it wasn't very tapered, really more of a spacer than a wedge. So, it all worked out.

2. Showing the gap between the wedge and the tip of the blade. I'm mad at myself for this. When I made the wedge, I had it perfectly positioned about 1/16" or so away from the blade and it looked perfect. Somehow it slipped forward sometime between setting it a drilling it. Now it's at 1/8". Oh well I guess. I'm not messing with making another one. Live and learn.

3. Proving once again why I work with hand tools only. I got in a hurry and strapped a dremel sanding drum in my drill press and starting rough shaping the wedge outline. I got greedy and lost focus for jus a second and, BAM, big chunk missing from the wedge. I'm leaving it to remind myself what can hammen when people don't pay attention.

4. Scales laid out for sealing the inside surface. Once this is done, I'll sand it smooth and start pinning!!

Stay tuned!

I think these pictures speak for themselves.

The pinning went well. A little shaky at first due to not having a ball pein hammer, but I went to harbor freight and remedied that today. By the way, a spoon doesn't work to pein pins. It may work to tighten loose ones, but it sure doesn't work to make the original peins.

The wedge looks stupid and I hate it, but I live and I'll learn. I still have to seal it with poly.

I had a couple of runs on the scales where poly leaked over the front from the back, so I had to sand it off. It dulled the Epoxy some, so I'll fix it with poly as well.

Once I have a little time, I plan on taking some proper pictures of it in a light box and with a better camera than my iPhone cam.

The blade needs some work polishing too. I need to go over it a little bit with 1000 grit and Mother's polish.

The blade stays put wherever I leave it. I'm excited that it works like that!

So, how'd I do?

Nice job man! Looks great. Now I wanna restore a Dwarf LOL

Damn fine job!

Great job on the restore, thanks for walking us through the whole process. Well done.

Thanks for the replies guys. Hopefully a couple of the really experienced restorers will stop by this thread and tear my razor apart so that I can learn from it. Seriously, don't hold back, I need to get better.


I tell you, from looking at the razor more today, I have found additional things wrong.

1. The freakin wedge is tapered in two directions, but not the correct way from top to bottom.

2. I didn't get the back side of the bottom of the wedge square, so it's a little off.

3. I flipping forgot to sand the sides of the wedge smooth, which is why they don't look as good and sit as flush against the scales as they should.

4. My hammer head was clean, but not smooth enough, it wasn't perfectly round in other words. I really need to just buy a jewelers hammer and be done with it. I just wanted to get this thing done and send it out for honing.

5. The scales aren't perfectly thicknessed from pivot to wedge. This is due to not having the correct tools to get them perfect and not wanting to spend the time to get them exact with sandpaper.

6. The scales are too thick by as much as 1/16" or so. I think this maple, especially with the epoxy, could have taken the stress of being another 1/16" thinner.

7. Don't know if I mentioned this in another reply, but the pins aren't evenly peined. I need to redo my pinning block and drill a smaller hole a little shallower and be more careful of how much extra I cut off.

I still have to poly the scratches and the wedge, but I'm almost done! Thanks again for all the compliments. If you've done some scales, be critical so I can learn.

Beautiful!! Great job, and yes, thanks for taking us on the journey!!

Best!

M