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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

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😅

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,

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

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

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

And the others turned out great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks great! Awesome job!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
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