Thread: Latest Restoration - Horn if you've got it!

WELL, this is the latest work that I've done. ("Old English" Patent Tempered Steel)

The blade was a Re-grind by Robert (Williams) a while back. So that was easy enough (no damn hand sanding!!). However, what always bothered me was that the original scales were broke above the pivote pin, and two of the four original rosette collars were lost/ruined.

SO, I came across an old razor that was slapped onto a 'modified' horn set of scales (an obvious missmatch of old). That's when things started to crystalize....

I took the 'modified' horn scales, and mounted them to my brass liner-blue plastic combo. Then I thinned them out and reshaped them to fit the era of the blade. I also added an inlay of a nickel silver shield to the front scales. The original pewter spacer was crap, and since I did not have anyother materials to play with at the time, I layered up my brass and plastic to make a new end spacer. Then sanded the hell out of the horn up to 2K grit.

I used the Rosette collars on the bottom and pinned the pivote as close to the style of the time as I could.

My original intent was to make this a three pin design (I know, more modern than the era that I was trying to reproduce), however I learned WHEN you have to make the razor a two pin design.... The tang on these old blades are so broad that there is NO room for the middle pin when the blade is closed. With the straight-scale design the blade already sticks out of the scales... SO, screw it. I kept it to it's era-look. (I know I could have added a pseudo-middle pin, but why bother).

What is nice is that the inside brass liner actually highlights the edge of the horn..

Anyway, I think it looks good for a reproduction of an old style razor....

C utz