Thread: Razor Repair

Just watched some videos on tightening your scales. Grabbed a spoon, hammer and fingernail and 3 of them are already snugged up nicely. Thanks much.

Originally Posted by bmilesmiles

Just watched some videos on tightening your scales. Wrabbed a spoon, hammer and fingernail and 3 of them are already snugged up nicely. Thanks much.

I think anyone here can tell you your best option would be to send it to GSsixgun as he has created some of the nicest razors and done some of the best repairs on this site. Just my two cents. Good luck

Thanks Grizzley. I will be putting in a bid request with a couple of the guys on her soon.

They look like they "used" to be nice. I would remove all the scales and re-scale them with something similar.

I think that they have already been ruined...

Enjoy,
Jeff.

Originally Posted by jeffegg2

They look like they "used" to be nice. I would remove all the scales and re-scale them with something similar.

I think that they have already been ruined...

Enjoy,
Jeff.

They look pretty nice for antque ivory to me....

Originally Posted by jeffegg2

They look like they "used" to be nice. I would remove all the scales and re-scale them with something similar.

I think that they have already been ruined...

Enjoy,
Jeff.

Most definitely not!


I think the best bet would be lining them with a phenolic like G10 or a very thin metal.

Love that someone took time to put in the extra pins to stop the cracking! Very, very neat set!

I offer this only as my opinion.

IF they were mine.

I would take the pins and everything out. Then take a good adhesive like a good CA or epoxy and glue the cracked areas back together. Once the glue was cured I would finish the surface back to flush to get all the excess glue off.

At this point I would take a good fiber glassing epoxy like West System or System 3 and some of the fiberglass cloth that RC airplane builders use and lay a layer of fiberglass right onto the flat ivory inner surface of each scale.

The thing about their RC airplane cloth is that it is super thin and has a VERY fine weave. I have used this on projects and repairs of various things before and it is very hard to find. It adds a lot of strength but you have to really look for it to find it.

IMHO Part of what went wrong with the set originally is that it was pinned without compression washers under the pin heads. Ivory is bad to shrink and expand with the humidity fluctuation of the air. The way those were peened the pin heads were already putting outward pressure on the ivory. If washers had been used the washer would take the brunt of that peening pressure rather than the ivory.

Ray

Originally Posted by jeffegg2

They look like they "used" to be nice. I would remove all the scales and re-scale them with something similar.

I think that they have already been ruined...

Enjoy,
Jeff.

as you can see from the other responses you and myself included, know nothing about ivory, I think it looks very nice. Something that old and hard to get your hands on. In my opinion I would send them to someone who knows what they're doing and has done it before. Ivory is not something you scrap and throw away carelessly, especially when it's still in very good condition and very repairable. According to those here who know more than both of us, IMH0

if they were mine, i let them al they be now. they have a work look that i like

Moved to the workshop as requested

G-10 is a super strong Fiberglass sheet that is virtually indestructible, and is super light weight so it doesn't off set the balance of the razor too bad...