Im still very new when it comes to restorations, but I wanted to share my 3rd restoration that I finished up yesterday. (I believe I have posted my first 2 restorations over the past few months also)
I found a nice W&B FBU on ebay, won it for a decent price, but it needed some work, here is how it looked when I got it:
The seller had listed it as an 8/8, but it was a 15/16, but still alright...
I have no pic of the back scales, but the back was destroyed from bug bitches, I tried to see if I could salvage the scales when I took them off, but as expected the back scale broke.
I will still save the one good scale from the front for a future project, so don't worry, I have not thrown it out lol.
I started sanding the blade with 240x W/D paper, followed by 600x and 1000x.
Sanded the wedge with 600x W/D.
I got a new pair of horn scales that looked decent that I found on ebay, unfortunately, they were way too thick for my taste out of the box, so I spent a good amount of time to sand them down to make them thinner (took 4 hours in total..)
Here is the razor after I finished peening yesterday.
I know it's not a perfect job, the scales were too thin at the pivot area for the collars im using, (they were like that when I got them, not something I did when sanding)
and I could not move it down, since the blade would make contact with the wedge on closure, so I sacrificed some aestethics for function
other than that, I am very happy with how this turned out.
I found a nice W&B FBU on ebay, won it for a decent price, but it needed some work, here is how it looked when I got it:
The seller had listed it as an 8/8, but it was a 15/16, but still alright...
I have no pic of the back scales, but the back was destroyed from bug bitches, I tried to see if I could salvage the scales when I took them off, but as expected the back scale broke.
I will still save the one good scale from the front for a future project, so don't worry, I have not thrown it out lol.
I started sanding the blade with 240x W/D paper, followed by 600x and 1000x.
Sanded the wedge with 600x W/D.
I got a new pair of horn scales that looked decent that I found on ebay, unfortunately, they were way too thick for my taste out of the box, so I spent a good amount of time to sand them down to make them thinner (took 4 hours in total..)
Here is the razor after I finished peening yesterday.
I know it's not a perfect job, the scales were too thin at the pivot area for the collars im using, (they were like that when I got them, not something I did when sanding)
and I could not move it down, since the blade would make contact with the wedge on closure, so I sacrificed some aestethics for function
other than that, I am very happy with how this turned out.