My little restore horror.

I found this razor on e-bay. Cheap enough but it had that rust line so I sent a note to the seller asking if it maybe had a crack there. The seller sent me the razor for free and when I got it I cleaned the rust off and found no crack.
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There was 1 in the toe that went @ a 45 into the blade so I made it into a round point and did some of the heavy hand sanding to see if it would clean up nice. It did so I went to work on the scales. 1 side was broke in half. I glue it back together but decided to go all the way.

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I went through the whole process of removing the bolsters and refitting them to the new scales. With some temporary pins I put the whole thing together and was getting proud of my work.

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I went back to sanding out the grits of the previous papers and it was going well. Then I heard this noise. If any of you have heard it before you know the feeling that comes right after it. I didn't have to look to know but I did hoping it wasn't so bad. It was.

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So now comes the "what did I do wrong part". I wasn't using any more pressure when sanding and I had the blade laying on a board supporting it from the back to prevent this from happening. I may have slipped out of position some but I can't help thinking maybe I didn't round the toe off past the crack enough in the first place leaving a weak point. No matter, these are all things that will go through my mind next time. Not to mention I will finish the blade from now on before I go to making new scales for it.
Now it sits in a baggie waiting for ????????

I can see that razor getting upset with a name like SPIKE and becoming a new round point. I hate when they decide to break on you:aargh:It may make a great shorty, and you could make it a spike point again:shrug: You already have the scales made. Nice transfer of the bolsters. I really like the green on green. I have many of those challenging peices as I am cheap and usually a cheap blade has a major problem such as a crack. I feel for you after putting in the time and effort. It is disheartening

WHY OH WHY....:cry:

Sorry to see that 10Pups,
shorty's are not all bad I have one I use semi regularly, and there is a thread running that asked for pictures of shorty's.

Isn't there a Spike in the contest give away this month? Hope you entered, those scales I'm sure took a lot of work.

My bet, FWIW:

. . . The crack (from the toe) was longer than you thought.

Take a stiff drink in memoriam . . .

. Charles