Things that make you cry...

McShaverson · 08-21-2008, 04:10 AM

Alright... we all know how great a razor brought back from the dead looks, but we all know that sometimes things don't go just exactly as planned in the restoration process. Some of these things make us bleed, some of these things make us angry, some of these things just want to make us give up, but, sometimes, these unfortunate mishaps just make us want to cry. I'll start by sharing mine and I encourage others to join in so we may reminds those who are restoring to be very careful not to repeat our mistakes.

-Just recently (30 minutes ago) I cracked a newly finished pair of scales by tapping it just a tad bit to hard with my hammer..........

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-Hand sanding a slightly pitted blade a little impatiently (with great haste) and slipping leading to a gash on the tip of your thumb

-Having clumsy fingers and dropping a scaleless blade to the ground inevitably leading to the tip breaking off

-Trying to polish a newly honed blade with a felt wheel and accidentally catching the wheel on the freshly honed edge

Ok... these are just a few right off the top of my head. Your turn

Best Wishes,
Kevin

tazz · 08-21-2008, 04:23 AM

Onions make me cry

Utopian · 08-21-2008, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by McShaverson

Alright... we all know how great a razor brought back from the dead looks, but we all know that sometimes things don't go just exactly as planned in the restoration process. Some of these things make us bleed, some of these things make us angry, some of these things just want to make us give up, but, sometimes, these unfortunate mishaps just make us want to cry. I'll start by sharing mine and I encourage others to join in so we may reminds those who are restoring to be very careful not to repeat our mistakes.

-Just recently (30 minutes ago) I cracked a newly finished pair of scales by tapping it just a tad bit to hard with my hammer..........

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..............

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-Hand sanding a slightly pitted blade a little impatiently (with great haste) and slipping leading to a gash on the tip of your thumb

-Having clumsy fingers and dropping a scaleless blade to the ground inevitably leading to the tip breaking off

-Trying to polish a newly honed blade with a felt wheel and accidentally catching the wheel on the freshly honed edge

Ok... these are just a few right off the top of my head. Your turn

Best Wishes,
Kevin

Well, it might make someone cry but maybe you should stick with an electric razor, as long as you use it far, far away from the sink!
Be careful out there!
PS. Nice idea for a thread!

McShaverson · 08-21-2008, 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Utopian

Well, it might make someone cry but maybe you should stick with an electric razor, as long as you use it far, far away from the sink!
Be careful out there!
PS. Nice idea for a thread!

That made me cry a little bit actually

as I have no problem shaving with the razors...

I just seem to mess up in the restoring process every once and a while

Kevin

gssixgun · 08-21-2008, 06:05 AM

OK I'll share....

The chunk outta my flip off finger from sanding and watching TV at the same time....

The first "Pass it on Razor" that after I restored, honed, and shaved with, for a week, that I just "had" to take back to the buffing wheel and launched it across the workshop to shatter into 3 pieces.....

My very first real try at buffing with a Dremel that shattered a nice Torrey...

Countless scales that just didn't quite look right to my OCD brain....

And last but not least, the beautiful cracked ice scales that Doc gave me as a gift, that simply snapped in half for no known reason!!!!!!

sidneykidney · 08-21-2008, 07:10 AM

Getting a gorgeously shaped old blade with a lot of tarnish/rust on it from eBay. I spent a good few hours cleaning it up and then figured since i'd have to hone it anyway and since the blade wasnt perfect i'd hone it straight away. Then I discovered the chip. It was a wedge. No matter I thought, i'll just keep honing until I get past the chip. Honed for a L-O-N-G time and when nothing came of it decided to clean the area around the chip up some.

Only then did I discover that the chip was actually a hairline crack that went a third of the way through the blade. THAT made me cry.

icedog · 08-21-2008, 01:10 PM

floppyshoes · 08-21-2008, 02:08 PM

See bottom 2 blades, both in the same week for the same customer, both Pumas.

McShaverson · 08-23-2008, 04:42 AM

Wow. Some of those would make me cry

...... especially the customs... wow.

I often have the same OCD problem Glen. The scales have to be absolutely flawless or else I'm very unsatisfied.

Kevin

dolf · 08-23-2008, 09:00 AM

Though not nearly so bad as some of the others my King cutter caught the dremel. I might not have minded, but it was the first razor that I had bought. I thought when I found it that I would just fix it up a bit and hone it and be ready for it. I do not recall if I killed it before or after I bought my second razor (that I could shave with) but it never did (nor will it ever) make it to shave ready condition. What makes it even worse is that it did not really NEED polishing, but I felt that it should be perfect (perhaps I suffer a touch of OCD as well.)

OLD_SCHOOL · 08-23-2008, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by floppyshoes

See bottom 2 blades, both in the same week for the same customer, both Pumas.

Geez, how you going to/did you explain that one?

floppyshoes · 08-23-2008, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL

Geez, how you going to/did you explain that one?

Simple, I was honest. We worked it out and now he's happy.

McShaverson · 08-25-2008, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by floppyshoes

Simple, I was honest. We worked it out and now he's happy.

I think he means how did you do it?

Kevin

AaronX · 08-25-2008, 04:05 AM

this:

floppyshoes · 08-25-2008, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by McShaverson

I think he means how did you do it?

Kevin

Ah, perhaps you're right. In that case...

The bottom one was stainless and had a crack that was invisible until it touched the buffer. It didn't really catch or jump, just kind of fell apart.

The middle one exploded in my hand when one of the strands of the sisal wheel I was using decided to come loose. I was using a 8" wheel at the time, so you can see what happened when the strand hit the paper thin blade.

OLD_SCHOOL · 08-25-2008, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by McShaverson

I think he means how did you do it?

Kevin

No no, I was just curious, how one would explain the situation. Obviously one would tell the truth, coz what else can you do? But you know, to have it happen twice and in the same week, and them being the same customers and all....

Detach · 08-25-2008, 06:57 PM

I would be worried that rumors of lack of quality and workmanship would spread :-\....which i am not questioning i think you do an amazing job

Leon · 08-26-2008, 11:48 PM

In general, when I'm "hunting" at flea markets or antique stores whenever I see a razor box and ask the clerk if I can check out the razor inside. I pull it out, open it and has a nick too large to be honed away.

The most disturbing moment was this past Sunday morning in the same place where I snapped my Heljestrand that I restored and sold today I saw a beautiful Filly 13! The scales were amazing, and there was very light rust - "This will be my lucky day!" - I thought. With my eyes opened wide I carefully pick it up, open it and see a nick about a quarter of an inch in the middle of the edge. I said to myself, impersonating Homer Simpson - "Doh!". What a grab that would if it hasn't for that nasty nick!