Well, a friend who has multiple straights knew I was looking into getting some straights of my own for my face and noggin (see my intro post).
He sent me this one he had laying around. Guess I have a project!
Plan is to remove the pins and disassemble, epoxy the scale back together where it's broken (these first two steps are the potential ones where plans may change), clean and polish the blade, re-assemble.
I still have to decide on nickel/stainless or brass when I make the new pins and washers. In either case, I think I'll have to source them online. The most common size is 1/16", but I'll know once disassembled and properly measured. If the ducks and writing don't have any lacquer over them (as I suspect) and the scales don't break and polish up nicely, then I'll do brass for uniformity. I'll probably have to order the round stock and washers online anyway (I'm in Canada).
If the scales don't hold with epoxy, I'll have to either have another solution, or make new scales out of another material.
I'm the least worried about the blade. I'm confident in my metal-working ability to get it back to better-than-knew. I've refurbished blades by hand that looked like they were used to cut rocks...And I have actual polishing wheels now! That's on top of sandpaper from 120 grit all the way up to 7000 grit (I sometimes build guitar pedal enclosures and paint them and clearcoat myself. That's what I take them to after curing before polish and wax!) This one looks like it has mainly surface rust. Even the thicker looking stuff by the spine and heel is coming off with a quick scratch with a fingernail.
It is odd that it has the Dubl Duck scales, but almost all the DDs I've seen have Dubl Duck on the blade markings as well. This one has Henckels markings. Anyone know anything about these?
Cheers.
Am I missing anything obvious in my plan?
He sent me this one he had laying around. Guess I have a project!
Plan is to remove the pins and disassemble, epoxy the scale back together where it's broken (these first two steps are the potential ones where plans may change), clean and polish the blade, re-assemble.
I still have to decide on nickel/stainless or brass when I make the new pins and washers. In either case, I think I'll have to source them online. The most common size is 1/16", but I'll know once disassembled and properly measured. If the ducks and writing don't have any lacquer over them (as I suspect) and the scales don't break and polish up nicely, then I'll do brass for uniformity. I'll probably have to order the round stock and washers online anyway (I'm in Canada).
If the scales don't hold with epoxy, I'll have to either have another solution, or make new scales out of another material.
I'm the least worried about the blade. I'm confident in my metal-working ability to get it back to better-than-knew. I've refurbished blades by hand that looked like they were used to cut rocks...And I have actual polishing wheels now! That's on top of sandpaper from 120 grit all the way up to 7000 grit (I sometimes build guitar pedal enclosures and paint them and clearcoat myself. That's what I take them to after curing before polish and wax!) This one looks like it has mainly surface rust. Even the thicker looking stuff by the spine and heel is coming off with a quick scratch with a fingernail.
It is odd that it has the Dubl Duck scales, but almost all the DDs I've seen have Dubl Duck on the blade markings as well. This one has Henckels markings. Anyone know anything about these?
Cheers.
Am I missing anything obvious in my plan?