Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by engine46

You are very talented my friend! It takes a lot of patience to do such work. What do you use, jewelers files, scribes & such?

Well, it takes me quite a lot of time to find this kind of beautiful and vintage carved pieces of bone, or MOP (mostly from the 1820 - 1880). And a growing network of suppliers

Sadly I wouldn't be able to reproduce it.

Then I work with a Dremel, diamond tools, and sandpaper.

"Tortoise ivory & MOP Reaper"
Indeed you are. Although the term masterful repurposer would fit too.
Great work keeping these pieces of history alive, and for their intended purpose.
Cheers.

So far so good.

Here's how I feel after my hammer hit the nail for the last time :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw

More pictures here :

Aux Rasoirs Normands

Awhile back I acquired another Otto Deutsch Hans straight with good scales but a bad blade. I have now acquired one with bad scales & a good blade so guess what? You got it...............blade swap! The one with the good blade is missing the makers inlay on the scales. I'll have one good Otto Deutsch Hans straight when done!

Umm. Blade one looks like it has cell rot, so the scales might not be as nice as the look. Have you done any testing?

Originally Posted by engine46

Awhile back I acquired another Otto Deutsch Hans straight with good scales but a bad blade. I have now acquired one with bad scales & a good blade so guess what? You got it...............blade swap! The one with the good blade is missing the makers inlay on the scales. I'll have one good Otto Deutsch Hans straight when done!

I would watch your new blade carefully, the bad blade looks to me like it got a case of cell rot. oops rezdog beat me to it!

Originally Posted by RezDog

Umm. Blade one looks like it has cell rot, so the scales might not be as nice as the look. Have you done any testing?

My thoughts Exactly!!!!!

Originally Posted by cudarunner

My thoughts Exactly!!!!!

How would I test it? That's one thing I haven't learned to do.

You could put it in a sealed container or a ziploc bag with a Gold Dollar or another blade that it essentially rust free an let them make friends for a little while. If the introduced razor starts to look like the original blade you have big trouble in little container.