Thread: W&B wedge...I wanna fix it.

dirtychrome you are amazing! thank you. Always with the sage like advice and great information.
I am still deciding on scale shape and material. the more I look the more ideas I get. I also need to order some more pinning material. I want silver pins and washers, and I currently only have brass. I am planning to spend some time on this one though, and with no power tools it will most certainly take some time, and I don't mind that.

I am finishing up my 3 current project razors, this one will hopefully be started by friday!

BP, indeed, some are made with that taper. Some British, several framebacks. I recently got a Swedish Hellberg wedge that's at least that pronounce in taper. I have a costly wedge (wacker), and this Hellberg outshaves it. 'Best shaving wedge I've tried - including a SatinWedge. DirtyChrome seems to be steering you to take your restoration skills further with it. The same can be said to me - I can't say I have a great feel for sanding a blade (or alot of other technicques), but the learning by doing is too effective to ignor.
Best of luck w/ your restore. Maybe post the results as it comes along.

Thank you pinklather, I will post results... and dirtychrome has offered a lot of great advice. I am glad he and all the other members are nice enough to answer the same questions 500 times over and over every time someone new asks what has already been asked.

I finished my other projects. So I started on this one a few days ago. here are the pictures of the razor as it was taken apart, the wood of choice for scales (black palm), and after many hours of 60 grit sanding. There is still a little pitting on the blade, and a small patch on the tang. Trying to decide if I should move ahead into the higher grits, or keep going to get rid of it completely.

I have a similar blade..but with a barbers notch.
I will post some pics as soon as I can.

Looking good!
Handsanding is some tedious work isn't it!

so far so good! you made a good choice by starting with a wedge... my first is a full-hollow, and I left some of the pitting for fear of sanding through the edge.

yes, hand sanding is very tedious. and I have a few where i left the pitting. I don't mind a little bit of character