Thread: My adventures with ivory. With a side order of GAH! CORROSION!

I finally got the nickel-silver pins I needed to start working on the various razors that just would look wrong with brass. My first order of business was this poor creature.




I got it for $7 on eBay. Ivory scales. The scales turned out pretty easy to fix (though they still show a scar from that crack), it was the blade that thwarted me. It's better now, but there's a long way to go yet and I was anxious to get this on a hone and shave with it.

No, I still haven't honed it.

In its improved state:




I'd like to clean up the pins a little better. They're currently just a touch grungy, but that will have to wait until I've got a buffer. Hand sanding those pits out was making me very unhappy.

Overall though, I'm quite pleased!