yep you are right....its been a long day.
happen to know if they made a 4/8????
camo
i don't recall seeing any 4/8s of the last couple years i've been watching, most appear to be ~11/16.
yep you are right....its been a long day.
happen to know if they made a 4/8????
camo
i don't recall seeing any 4/8s of the last couple years i've been watching, most appear to be ~11/16.
pinned this morn and bevel pretty much set. no probs with arm hair or maraschino cherries. may run a little more on 1.5 kuromaku then on through the progression. not much more time today. festivity preparations........
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specific razor for Bay Rum day!!!!!
camo
overall shape and taper of blade looks to be good too.....for an itsy bitsy razor.
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remembered to polish front of toe this time too!!!!
camo
Grabbed a few bargains that arrived yesterday. As I am waiting on the wood to stabilize to do new scales for the Greeves I took a lucky gal for a date.
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A bath and the royal treatment. New Buffalo horn scales.
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I was a little rough with her but she'll thank me in the morn.
I'm inclined to call this a genuine 4/8 for a couple of reasons:
1. although not a complete traditional stabilizer on the heel.....it fades naturally to the heel.
2. absence of heavy grind on the blade in the usual suspect areas.
3. spine is not jacked up like some of the WB's I've seen.
4. no abnormalities or odd hone wear throughout the blade edge. edge is straight favoring neither the toe or heel. (which I'm finding is rare when encountering antique/older razors)
wish there was literature available to use.
camo
For me, one of the tell tale signs of a 4/8 , smaller razor, is the size of the shank.
Its all relative. When you see a 7/16, 5/8, with a manly sized shank you know what it once was.
Also, the size of the shoulder grind hollows. They are smaller than a large razors.
They used different sized wheels for different sized razors - they had too. I have no proof of this, only common sense. I have an extremely well ground 4/8 full hollow razor. It would simply not be possible with a larger wheel grinder.
I really don't like using them so mine sees no whiskers.
Hope you like yours.
For me, one of the tell tale signs of a 4/8 , smaller razor, is the size of the shank.
Its all relative. When you see a 7/16, 5/8, with a manly sized shank you know what it once was.
Also, the size of the shoulder grind hollows. They are smaller than a large razors.
They used different sized wheels for different sized razors - they had too. I have no proof of this, only common sense. I have an extremely well ground 4/8 full hollow razor. It would simply not be possible with a larger wheel grinder.
I really don't like using them so mine sees no whiskers.
Hope you like yours.
So it sounds like you agree it’s an oem 4/8?
Fun with two razors today.
First up was a 7/8” Joseph Rogers from FleaBay.
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Tom her apart to get the rust in the pivot and plan to replace the scales.
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Cleaned her up with 1000, 3000, 5000, and Flitz.
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She was then joined by a CVH MK No 22 for a little dress shopping. The CVH ended up with a pair of recycled bone scales, and the Rodgers will have to suffer through my first stent at from-scratch scale making.
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Got the CVH fitted and pinned. Ready for honing tomorrow.
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And got as far as making the Rodgers template on the brown horn blank.
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Tomorrow will be cutting, shaping, polishing, and fitting the Rodgers scales. Then honing for these two and a Taylor's Eye Witness 1000 that came in last week.
I love a long weekend...
Nice. I much prefer the "All Sheffield" Kropps.Coma patina on this 6/8 Kropp
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