Le Grelot Royal Canada

[UKRob]

After a busy couple of months where I've not been able to get into my workroom, my wife said that this week-end I could spend as much time as I liked in there - joy of joys. here is the first result a decent sized Le Grelot that had a lot of pitting on the spine area. The scales are horn - I'm finding that the new rotary sander enables me to get much thinner scales - look at the tang area and you will see what I mean.

 

[hokahay]

Moarrr! I like it alot! But, srsly, I had my hart horned and its great. Your look spectacular. I am awaiting delivery on a used 360 LG and honing study like zen with my LG Campiono. Will there be a shave report?

 

[UKRob]

Moarrr! I like it alot! But, srsly, I had my hart horned and its great. Your look spectacular. I am awaiting delivery on a used 360 LG and honing study like zen with my LG Campiono. Will there be a shave report?

It honed like a dream, - but I've not yet shaved with it. It's a Bank Holiday week-end in the UK so I went out with my wife and friends on Saturday night having shaved for the first time with another restore (Gilbert Bros) which was so good I'm still checking my chin some 30 hours later. I might not shave until Tuesday morning now but I promise to post the result.

Rob

 

[hitemfrank]

Very nice. The colouring of the horn scales is awesome.

 

[life2short1971]

Nice scales I try to get mine that thin whenever possible on my belt sander. I usually end up using double sided tape to stick the roughed in scale to my fingertips so i can lay it on the belt without removing the tips of my fingers. I am very impressed they really came out nice. Fine choice in horn as well.

 

[Krodor]

oh wow. Beautiful. More more!

 

[kirk 988]

that looks great i love the scales they suit the blade

 

[UKRob]

Nice scales I try to get mine that thin whenever possible on my belt sander. I usually end up using double sided tape to stick the roughed in scale to my fingertips so i can lay it on the belt without removing the tips of my fingers. I am very impressed they really came out nice. Fine choice in horn as well.

I also used a belt sander previously but rather than tape to my hand, I taped the blank to a piece of wood - you obviously have to check evenness continuously but I found the rigidity of a block of wood helped. Another tip - if you cover the blank with masking tape before using the double sided tape, it makes it much easier to remove.

I just noticed that you said 'roughed in scale' which suggests you have already cut them out - my method is to get the blank down to the required thickness, then divide down the length, stick two pieces together and do the rough cut. I keep them like this throughout final sanding so that they are symetrical.

 

[life2short1971]

Mine usually start around 1/8mm slabs of which I doubleside tape together and then cut my pattern and from there I work the pair of scales as one piece up until I drill them for the blade and wedge. I then split them and fasten them together with the wedge and blade. I hope that gives you a better idea of why the sticky fingers.