Friday, May 27, 2011

Custom 7/8 Monkey Tail in Blonde Horn

This one was done for a member at SRP. It's a mix of what he wanted and what I could do.
I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Blade is a 7/8 spike point with a long tail and top thumb notch. The angle on the tail was kept low. Even with the lengthy tail stropping feels no different then any other blade because the low angle keep the tail covered by the scales. Jimps top and bottom
Scales are blond horn with translucent horn wedge and stacked washers.



Sunday, May 22, 2011

Cattaraugus Cutlery , Wade & Butcher in Horn

These are to I just put in the for sale section
Cattaraugus Cutlery Co. "COBALT"
Scales are black horn, I thought it fitting for the "COBALT" to have a blue G10 wedge. Silver pins and domed washers.
Wade & Butcher
Heavy blade for size (5/8). Black horn scales with jade green G10 wedge. Silver pins and domed washers.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

W. Greaves & Sons Stubtail in Black Horn

This would was in pretty bad shape when I got it.
There was no way to remove all the pitting with a full regrind of the blade. So I cleaned what I could
and put her in a new set of black horn scales, antique white wedge and stacked washers. 


Custom 8/8 Barbers Notch in Transculent Horn

8/8 barbers notch with a cutting edge of 2.5"
The translucent horn is kind of a chocolate brown color that ended up look nice.
The wedge is antique white, neutral and brown. Triple stacked washers with silver pins

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

8/8 Barber's Notch in Red Horn

8/8 Barber's notch that's finished and headed to it's new home
He was looking or something red, so I started looking around to see what I had.
At the bottom of my pile I found a piece of dyed red horn, so I thought I would give it a try.
I have to say about half through sanding it, I thought for sure I would throwing it in the trash.
I decided leave the face of the horn as it, with imperfections and all. I thought, if it happen to polish up OK, the imperfections for give it an old/worn look to it.
Once I started polishing it, I really like how it was turning out. It's almost a 2-tone color (which doesn't really come through in the pics)
Anyway, her she is



***Update:

Well the red horn formed a superficial crack at the pivot hole. Typically it was wouldn't be a problem but with the horn is dyed red and not very deep. That is part of what makes it look good when sanded but sand to much and the red is gone...
So this razor got some new scales. Tortoise Shell acrylic.
Her is how she looks now.


Tuesday, May 3, 2011

A few rescales

I've had a busy last few days with a few rescales
2 of them didn't take that much. One was sent in for some new G10 scales and 2 more sent to replace scales that he bought.the 2 replacements. I think he picked them up from Superior Shave (?). So I cut them down to size and pinned them.


Next was a Carl Ernst Kirschiner, Solingen blade rescales in Ivory White G10 with black and red lined wedge, silver pins and domed washers


After that a Waterville rescaled in Blue G10 with black wedge silver pins and domed washers


Then lastly a Dorko #576 rescaled in Black G10 with red wedge, 3-pin with domed washers