Well I Tried

I tried my hand at rehandling a razor. It is defiantely not perfect, nor anywhere near what ya'll are turnin' out, but I tried anyway :).
It's black walnut, wild cherry spacer, boiled linseed oil finish. Now that I got the feel, I'll probably improve over the future, like learning pocket knife embellishment all over again! :eek:

As far as improvements go, my peens could be more even, my handles need to be a tad thicker, definately need to try something other than walnut, and blade finishing needs improvement, but past that I think I've got it. What do you think? Any comments, suggestions more than welcome

The Razor itself is a tillotson&co
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...firstrazor.jpg

Looks Great :) ,

I hope my first attempt goes as well, as you going to try and clean up the blade anymore? ( sand / polish )

Did you make the scales yourself?

Cheers,
Neale

Thanks, I made the scales myself.

There's nothing wrong with that start. Gary was doing about the same last year and look what he puts out now.

X

What did you think of the walnut? I have a set now that I made (still need to do the final sanding and truoil coats). I found the wood to be rather soft, which was nice for the shaping. I then treated the wood with a few coats of minwax wood hardener. You then have to sand off the excess hardener...WOW was the wood a bear to sand! The wood is slightly darker too, but not as dark as I expect them to be after the truoil....

What were your thoughts working with the walnut?

C utz

Nothing wrong with the start. I actually like the fact that you were ambitious and went for a 3-pin design :tu

Not bad at all. I think the Walnut was a good choice for this blade.

Looks pretty usable to me.

As you said though, its a pity that you didnt clean up the blade a little more, as it is infinately easier to do without the scales on!

:D

Thanks guys,
I didn't have the proper stuff to clean the blade up more at the time, now I do :confused: .

As far as the walnut goes, it's a good wood to work with, it's a medium wood, fairly porus, and is prone to denting easily. It is real easy stuff to work with, but dosen't hold up as well as other woods might. I use it for my starting projects on everything, knife handles ect, so It's easier to get the hang of things before I move on the denser woods. I didn't treat this with any type of hardener (probably should have) just a hand rubbed coat of boiled linseed oil, it's looking kind of dry this morning so I'll give it a couple more coats. I'm not crazy about the feel of it, the scales just feel light and flimsy, but are about 1/8" thick. How thick do you fellas usually make your scales? My next set will be on a W&B, maybe desert irownood or osage orange this time :D .
Thanks for all the wonderful comments.

1/8 sounds about right. Ironwood is great for scales. Other choices would be red/purple/yellowheart, cocobolo and chechen. I just finished a padauk set (also fairly soft so it needed a CA finish).