I was looking for a good place to buy some micarta blanks to make scales with recently, Paco said I should talk to Doc.
Doc not only pointed me to a good place to pick some up but also said he made his own sometimes. This seemed really interesting so I looked into it, realized it was a nasty, gooey, pain in the neck. Plus the up front cost of the chemicals was prohibitive, something like $60-70 I think. But now I wanted some home made micarta.
I started thinking about material...I had a favorite pair of shorts that I had worn to shreds. They were no longer decent to wear in public. But I couldn't throw them away, they just sat in the bottom of a drawer. Borderline hoarder behavior. This is them:
The stupid look on my face and the gimpy looking shoulder was because my shoulder was dislocated (see how it just hangs there?) and it kind of hurt.
I had a favorite shirt, pretty much the same story...holey, worn out completely, still getting worn now and then but definitely time to retire it. Reeeaaalllly didn't want to though.
Said garment:
I wasn't into shaving very often pre-B&B.
Long story short, Alfredo (Doc) was good enough to make me some micarta out of this stuff. Providing it was washed, especially the shorts!
The result:
So now instead of throwing these away I get to make straight razor scales out of them. This is both sides of one piece, it takes quite a bit of fabric to make a slab of this but I'm going to be able to get two sets of scales from it. Pretty thrilled! Thanks again Alfredo!
I will update this with the new razors once they are done, just wanted to show off Doc's awesome work.
Doc not only pointed me to a good place to pick some up but also said he made his own sometimes. This seemed really interesting so I looked into it, realized it was a nasty, gooey, pain in the neck. Plus the up front cost of the chemicals was prohibitive, something like $60-70 I think. But now I wanted some home made micarta.
I started thinking about material...I had a favorite pair of shorts that I had worn to shreds. They were no longer decent to wear in public. But I couldn't throw them away, they just sat in the bottom of a drawer. Borderline hoarder behavior. This is them:
The stupid look on my face and the gimpy looking shoulder was because my shoulder was dislocated (see how it just hangs there?) and it kind of hurt.
I had a favorite shirt, pretty much the same story...holey, worn out completely, still getting worn now and then but definitely time to retire it. Reeeaaalllly didn't want to though.
Said garment:
I wasn't into shaving very often pre-B&B.
Long story short, Alfredo (Doc) was good enough to make me some micarta out of this stuff. Providing it was washed, especially the shorts!
The result:
So now instead of throwing these away I get to make straight razor scales out of them. This is both sides of one piece, it takes quite a bit of fabric to make a slab of this but I'm going to be able to get two sets of scales from it. Pretty thrilled! Thanks again Alfredo!
I will update this with the new razors once they are done, just wanted to show off Doc's awesome work.
