Free Talk Friday - October 27, 2023

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• djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So, I’ve been meaning to try myself at rescaling straight razors. I’ve had a Wade and Butcher hollow ground and an unnumbered Friodur 8/8 with busted scales, a Torrey blade without scales, replacement scales, and pinning sets lying ready for months, and today I used a company-wide R&R day (i.e., Djunior in daycare, wife working) to get my feet wet. Also, it was a great excuse to get a tiny drill press😅

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  I got cheap plastic scales for the Torrey as training scales, and pretty Ralf Aust horn scales for the Wade and Butcher and the giant Friodur.

  It turns out that the whole process is a little fiddly,

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  but overall more straight forward and easy than I anticipated, and I’m overall quite happy with the result,

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  just that the cheap plastic scales on the Torrey close off centre.

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  Nothing major though, and they were meant as the training scales to mess up anyway😅

  And the others turned out great

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  • PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m impressed by all the gifted people here! Good job, and very good illustrated write up!

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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  • whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That looks great! Awesome job!

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks buddy!

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  • gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It turns out that the whole process is a little fiddly,

    I have not replaced scales, but I have re-pinned a razor. Just removing the pin was fiddly for me and seems that way in the videos I’ve watched. I don’t have a tiny drill press, but I gaffer-taped the razor to a piece of wood with a hole drilled for the pin on the razor’s underside. Then I used a tiny punch on the top-side pin and carefully hand drilled it.

    I’m probably way over-thinking this, but if you already have a small drill press, a tiny end mill might be a good way to remove a pin because it can cut horizontally (to remove some of the peened surface) as well as vertically.

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    • whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve always just used flush cutters and a punch to get pins free. So far it hasn’t caused an issue for me.

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think replacing scales is much easier. I just cut the pins of with a flush cutter. A tiny one sold for trimming solder leads was enough, the pins are soft. Probably some copper nickel alloy.

      I have mill bits just like you describe for this. I’ve used them to mill aluminium before, so I’m thinking they would work well on the pins.

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  • gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Congrats! Next, I see a jewelers polishing station in your future :)

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not a full blown polishing station, but i do have floppy wheels, and cotton and rubber cones for that Proxxon drill that you can see in the drill press, and I’ve polished my first Rubberset with it 😅

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  • walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nice work!

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks! It was fun 😊

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ultra low key. In 2020 I shaved every day. In 2021 I cut back to twice a week. In fall of 2022 I got a job that allows beards so grew a beard and shave my neck and cheeks once a week. It’s still nice but also a bit more of a chore than it used to be. Monday I dropped my brush and lost a chunk of the handle so now I’m shopping for a new synthetic brush. My old one was a cheapo but served me well, I am thinking Simpson for the new one.

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