My latest crazy handle idea

[Teppanyaki]

Random idea I had this morning - to try to hook a DE razor head to a SE razor ornate handle.

Basically, you'd need a cylinder of brass of the diameter of the neck of a standard DE New bar handle, and then drill one end to create threads to fit a DE head, and the other end to create threads to fit a SE handle (I believe it would be a female-type adaptor on both ends and of the same type of threads, as my ornate handle screws into a DE handle pretty well, but I don't know for sure).

I don't know if a cylinder is the best idea as you'd need to grip it with something to get it snug, unless I epoxied the cylinder to the ornate handle to make assembly/disassembly easier. Now that I think about it, permanently epoxying the handle to the cylinder is probably a good idea so you could use the assembly just like a regular DE handle.

Does anyone else think of ideas like this, or just me?

 

[Chadao]

Don't know. I have a friend who is a bronze sculptor. He says the old Gillettes, like the New, are really closer to sculptural bronze than to brass. He is sculpting a handle for me. I asked if he knows someone who machines bronze. I await an answer.

 

[Teppanyaki]

He is sculpting a handle for me. I asked if he knows someone who machines bronze. I await an answer.

Thanks for asking, and what kind of handle? (Thinking, "Ooooo, custom handle!")

 

[dcobranchi]

If you want to make it permanent why not cut the threads off the chain link handle and drill and tap it to match the DE head? No adapter needed then.

 

[Teppanyaki]

I think that the ornate handle head is too narrow to drill and tap. Besides, I'd like a bit more length and either way involves machining brass which is far beyond my skill.

 

[nemo]

Just buy a standoff: http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-threaded-standoffs/=omfejv

 

[Teppanyaki]

Just buy a standoff: http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-th...ndoffs/=omfejv

That looks . . . like EXACTLY what I was thinking of. I have never heard of a standoff, but TYVM!

 

[Teppanyaki]

Hey - I can get a male-female adaptor! Wonder if I can hook an ornate handle up to a Damaskeene that way . . .

 

[Teppanyaki]

Does anyone know what the threading is on a Damaskeene and on a standard 1912 or DE razor?

 

[Teppanyaki]

OK, I may be clueless when it comes to this, but I can't figure out which standoff will fit a standard SE handle/DE razor post at 10-32. I can find standoffs in 1/4" diameter externally that are, say, 1/2" long, but I can't figure out what the internal diameter is to ensure that it would fit.

I tried to make some (crude) measurements with a ruler, and I get 3/16" diameter for the male thread (including the center solid post and the extra diameter associated with the spiral part). Since my SE handle screws into my DE handles, I am assuming that 3/16" is the diameter there.

Does anyone know how to figure out what the internal diameter of these standoffs is and how to make sure to get the right one? I am thinking that I may be better off going to a hardware store with my handles to try to figure this out.

 

[Teppanyaki]

OK, take thirty-two . . . have learned that 10-32 IS the screw size, and presumably a 1/2 " long standoff in 10-32 in hex or round (stainless) will work just fine. Will check out a 1/4" diameter to see how it works and maybe get some pics when I get this vaguely figured out.

I obviously understand tools and building as much as a yeti understands particle physics, so this ought to be amusing if nothing else!

 

[Teppanyaki]

By the way, I am wondering if I can jury-rig some adapters to downshift a 10-32 regular handle to the 8-32 or 6-32 threading on a Damaskeene (can't find anything definitive on which it is, but for $6 plus tax for an additional adaptor it's not a big deal).

 

[HUF]

Nemo is right - get a standoff. One with M5x0.8 thread so it would work with all razor heads both metric and Imperial.
I have attached a wrong image and do not know how to remove it. The standoff should have two female threads.

 

[HUF]

Does anyone know what the threading is on a Damaskeene and on a standard 1912 or DE razor?

Cannot say about Damaskeene, but My GEM Junior has 10-32 thread.

 

[HUF]

By the way, I am wondering if I can jury-rig some adapters to downshift a 10-32 regular handle to the 8-32 or 6-32 threading on a Damaskeene (can't find anything definitive on which it is, but for $6 plus tax for an additional adaptor it's not a big deal).

There are all kind of adapters. Google and you'll find some.