One of the members here sent a few razors out to the wilds of Idaho to be restored, this first 6/8 W&B is an heirloom blade, so I took a little extra care in doing this one...
He wanted some before during and after pics, so this thread will keep going for awhile...
We decided on almost matching scales, for all three restores, this is Red Lava Acrylic that I used, he wanted the two W&B's to have matching wedges in red and the Wostenholm to have a blue wedge....
The two W&B's needed a bit of polishing as you can see, I used 80-600 greaseless then Emory through SS they are very shiny satin, not quite mirror as there are still some very very faint pitting marks on the smaller one too deep to pull out...
The Wostie didn't need much polishing...
I cut all the acrylic to match, then started on the shaping of the first set on the 6/8 W&B....
After everything was shaped as I wanted, I mocked the razor up using a fake tang for sizing, and then fit the wedge to size... The lucky #7 also tells me where and how the wedge fits in the scales
... (note the use of the microfastener bolts)
After the razor was fit, I polished it all out, and pinned it using all brass hardware and stacked washers... here are all the pics, and the first one that is finished, I'll post the other two when they come off the bench....
On the 6/8 W&B the pitting by the spine was pretty bad and most of the etch was already gone, so I was told to go after it and try and get as much out as possible, so pitting first, and etch second... The W&B marks are still faintly there in person....
Hayward I hope you like the first one.....
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He wanted some before during and after pics, so this thread will keep going for awhile...
We decided on almost matching scales, for all three restores, this is Red Lava Acrylic that I used, he wanted the two W&B's to have matching wedges in red and the Wostenholm to have a blue wedge....
The two W&B's needed a bit of polishing as you can see, I used 80-600 greaseless then Emory through SS they are very shiny satin, not quite mirror as there are still some very very faint pitting marks on the smaller one too deep to pull out...
The Wostie didn't need much polishing...
I cut all the acrylic to match, then started on the shaping of the first set on the 6/8 W&B....
After everything was shaped as I wanted, I mocked the razor up using a fake tang for sizing, and then fit the wedge to size... The lucky #7 also tells me where and how the wedge fits in the scales
... (note the use of the microfastener bolts)After the razor was fit, I polished it all out, and pinned it using all brass hardware and stacked washers... here are all the pics, and the first one that is finished, I'll post the other two when they come off the bench....
On the 6/8 W&B the pitting by the spine was pretty bad and most of the etch was already gone, so I was told to go after it and try and get as much out as possible, so pitting first, and etch second... The W&B marks are still faintly there in person....
Hayward I hope you like the first one.....
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Looks like jewelry. If Patek-Philippe was into razor making, this is how it would look.
Impressive work!
