My "Gold Slash" 7 day set
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i don't care who you are, that right there is funny... (well, maybe unless you are the 12 yr old Chinese girl)
that boy ain't right
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I have a new idea... Let's make a real 7 day set. It will reflect the days of the week. Here's mine... I call it Monday...because no one likes mondays.
I don't care what anyone thinks.... I learned to hone on this. She's mine for life
... or maybe pifed if someone else needs to learn how to hone.
I don't care what anyone thinks.... I learned to hone on this. She's mine for life
... or maybe pifed if someone else needs to learn how to hone.
Be sure your tetanus shots are up to date when using that one....
Be sure your tetanus shots are up to date when using that one....
It was my attempt at patina with mustard.... must have came out worse than I intended...
One-of-a-kind oil-stain finish! Just blame it on the lighting and the use of a cell phone to get the pictures
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Slash McCoy
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Want patina? Ospho. Or coca cola which also contains phosphoric acid. Try it on a junk razor first to get the soak time right.
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Slash McCoy
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Starting again. The first one is a reject. I knocked a small chip out of the toe and had to make it a shorty. Still good but it can't be in the set and it doesn't rate ivory. I will have it dressed in CA finished walnut in a couple of weeks then on to the next one.
The shorty I gave about a 16 degree preliminary bevel. The factory bring marks we're quite deep so sanding them out thinned the blade a good bit and while not a true singing razor, is starting to find a voice. Should be a lively shaver when finished. I still have 3 or 4 more stages of sanding and then the diamond paste progression, then preliminary honing and repolishing the spine before I make the scales.
I do intend to go with ivory for the set though. Fitting scale material for such fine razor shaped objects, I think.
The shorty I gave about a 16 degree preliminary bevel. The factory bring marks we're quite deep so sanding them out thinned the blade a good bit and while not a true singing razor, is starting to find a voice. Should be a lively shaver when finished. I still have 3 or 4 more stages of sanding and then the diamond paste progression, then preliminary honing and repolishing the spine before I make the scales.
I do intend to go with ivory for the set though. Fitting scale material for such fine razor shaped objects, I think.
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Slash McCoy
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View attachment 345378A couple of works in progress. I keep dropping them and trashing them with the Dremel so I am mostly getting rejects that still end up looking good and shaving good but don't have the uniformity to go in a set. I am thinning all my GD mods these days, to around 16.5 degrees bevel angle. They make quite interesting shavers, very sassy and nimble, thinned down. Maybe not for the newbie on his first few shaves though! The set will definitely be under 17 degrees.
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Slash McCoy
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Oh the humanity! The heartbreak! AAAAAAUUUUGGHHHHHH!!!!! My Dremel is the 110V equivelant to Charlie Brown's kite-eating tree! Oh Dremel how I hate thee! I have been watching the entire Dark Shadows series from the 60's and I have a new name for my Dremel... Angelique.
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Slash McCoy
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There. All better now. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you crap, maybe don't make anything for a while. When life gives you wounded Gold Dollars, amputate. Here's "The Gimp".
