Thread: Please, Tell me what you Think.........

I bought this junker Str8 on e-bay for practically nothing and the photo will show you why!!
I have been repining Str8's and put on a couple of scales and even some honing, for my self, not for hire. But this is the 1st razor that I took apart completely cleaned up the blade[best as could be done] and put back to gether as a whole project.
The scales were, I beleiv heat warped and when put up to each other after unpinning the pivot holes were totally mis-alighned. As you can see from the 1st photo, the blade was to have better been thrown away, but I though, if I buggered up the project I woudln't be ruining a nice colectors peice.


The above image is what I had to work with, I know your thinking, what's to be done with that, well, bellow are some pic's of the work in progress and the final outcome, aside from the warped plastic scales, when I got to final polishing stage there were defects that kept comming up in the finish and I would have to go back a couple of grits and start over, the final polish is NOT what I had hoped for but it you let me off the hook for this being my 1st complete re-do, then with charity towards me I would say I did a "Servicable" Job, let your eyes be the judge.
The one thing I have going for me is very medeocre Photography skills, so a lot of defects are largely hidden.












The one photo is my work table work in progress, the rest are the finished[?] razor, and the little bull is my work buddy Sebastian, affectionate but inert.
I will in the near future do the honing and will let you all know how that comes out ,

Thank you for reading this Thread, have a great week,

tinkersd !

I think you've done well. It looks quite cool and a whole lot better than it did.
Your pinning job looks really nice too.
Grant

I think you did and outstanding job of getting back to a useable razor!
99% would toss it and say well thats that. Instead you took it to another level and having seen this done before I really applaud your efforts. The completed project does look really cool BUT most important I think is that you salvaged it from the depths of dead to breathing new life into it.
Great work !!!
BRAVO

PS thumbs up for Sebastian lol

Well done. As Earthdawn said, in most cases it would have been trashed. You've done a great job bringing it back from the dead. Nice finish on the blade, and your pinning is really tidy.

Dogs are always very helpful in the workshop I find, plenty of moral support .

Stu

Nice job. Not too shabby for a first time.

awesome job, always warms my heart to see somebody making something useable out of a junker, there's only so many vintage razors out there and the more we can save the better off everyone is

Kudos... Very impressive with the blade. I like it... but what i would like to see, is for you to make a set of scales
that better fit the look of the razor. You opened it up... you saw there's not a lot going on in there. Two washers inside and a pin.
If you want some help getting started, just PM me.

It's good to see an old blade go back on the line; good job.

I'll trade you a nice razor for that dog.

Looks tidy, good save...