Thread: 3 New Restorations

Wow! Beautiful Joe! Nice pic too.

John

Really nice work Joe! And good pictures to boot. Awesome!

How did you restore the blade on this one? Pray do tell.

I am especially curious about the blade face to spine transition. The radius is tight and not much wiggle room for sanding or getting at it with wheels or belts.

I have a W&B Feather Edge to restore, similar grind. I left it until I can figure out how to do it without risking trashing the blade or not being able to get a good finish.

Now I am going to need my 1" belt sander just to keep up with you.

This last one I really like. Nice flowing lines... Everything melds. Good job

WOW, that looks fantastic!

Great. You guys start dropping names (Tru-oil, T-88) and tell us to get them at woodcrafters, JUST after I made a treck out there last weekend...

(sigh)

Looks like I'll be visiting them, again, THIS weekend!

C utz

Originally Posted by urleebird

This last one I really like. Nice flowing lines... Everything melds. Good job

Thanks. This is the first one I designed the scales for, rather than using an existing pattern I already had. The way the blade is ground forces it to sit much lower in the scales, so they had to be much wider at the butt. Originally, I was going to use the laburnum for this razor, but that's when I discovered the problem and was forced to work up some more. I really like the taper. I'm making some now for an 8/8 Friodur square point and an 8/8 (mint) Gebr. Weyersberg I got in today. The Friodur's gonna have kauri, and the Weyersberg's gonna have heart rimu. Also making some for that 7/8 Frederick Reynolds 1/4 hollow out of pink ivory. The Friodur and Weyersberg are going to have similar scales, a square butt, rather than the oblique.

Originally Posted by vladsch

Really nice work Joe! And good pictures to boot. Awesome!

How did you restore the blade on this one? Pray do tell.

I am especially curious about the blade face to spine transition. The radius is tight and not much wiggle room for sanding or getting at it with wheels or belts.

I have a W&B Feather Edge to restore, similar grind. I left it until I can figure out how to do it without risking trashing the blade or not being able to get a good finish.

Now I am going to need my 1" belt sander just to keep up with you.

Getting inside the radius was pretty easy with some 9/16 radial bristle disks. There are still a few minor pits on the blade, but it has almost no wear, and I honestly didn't want to do too much to it. I don't see blades like this much...in fact I've never seen another one like this. The rest of the blade actually sands like a wedge (you have to visualize a bit for that to make sense ). These blades are actually 1/4 hollows or thereabouts, with a 1/2" 'scoop' taken out of the middle of the blade. If you get some 9/16"rbd, you should be able to do it, no sweat.

Joe,

How about a pm before they go on your site

Originally Posted by Aussie

Joe,

How about a pm before they go on your site

Unfortunately, they're already gone.

Originally Posted by shavethebadger

Joe,

I'm on the same schedule as you. Work M, T, off W, T, Work F, S, S. Nest week is opposite.

Simon mentioned working offshore in Scotland, he's the one with all the free time and extra cash!

plenty time yes, extra cash ...no...lol, joe excuse me while I drool , thats a beautiful razor, cant say what tickles me with it...just it all....nice one

lovin it....

I like that one. That is one beautiful razor and the pics are awesome, beautiful scales to, and the blade is unusual and and cool looking on its own.