Restoration and rescaling of a Bastet straight razor

[Tony]

The Bastet is a rebranded Fr. Herder A. S. #25 and had a damaged scale so when I had some time the other day I decided to rescale it. I used some acrylic carbon as can be seen on the photo.

For a spacer I used an old fiche made of bone, bought a couple of them a while back. The nice thing about them is that they come in different thickness

as it was found on the market

 

[Hellas]

Looks really great. I love your scaling works. The would much appreciate to know more about some further working steps (what du you use for cutting, polishing etc.)

 

[mhharsta]

Looks good Tony, thanks for sharing.

 

[Tony]

Looks really great. I love your scaling works. The would much appreciate to know more about some further working steps (what du you use for cutting, polishing etc.)

Simple and cheap.
The cutting and sanding is a little time consuming but very rewarding in the end.
Make sure you have some spare saw blades when you start, I use the very thin ones, they go very smoothly through acrylic but they snap when you don’t watch out.
I do the rough sanding with 80 grit wet and dry, after that I run through 180 280 400 600 and 800 grit.
I use a wine cork to wind the sandpaper on.
After that I polish with autosol metal polish.

 

[The King]

As someone with two left hands, I enjoy this self-work again and again, and above all, the beautiful result, in other words, very well done.

 

[Tony]

I’m working on another set of scales and made some inbetween photos.
After the two scales have been cut out of the sheet you stick them together before the next sanding step.
It does help if you have some machine to do the 80 grit sanding

 

[Hellas]

Thank you. Thats the usual way I do it as well, also with more handwork as a machine vor sanding is missing. I will try my Dremel next time, in particular for polishing (Good to know that Autosol works with such materials. Up to now I use this only for the blade)

 

[efsk]

Nice thin scales Tony. Look great on that razor.

 

[Tony]

When fitting the Friodur #17 I found that it needed a little wider wedge.
The Abr. Knyn 41 also needed new scales and that one was a perfect fit for these scales