Thread: Case Real Redpoint Rebuild

This one turned into quite the project, Aaron sent a few blades out for restores and honing and this blade in particular intrigued me so I went a slightly different direction then we originally planned At first I was going to tear down a set of Redpoint scales and transfer things around, but I ended up saving those... So now I had a blade with no scales and no plans this is where I ended up going with it...

The blade was polished then re-blued, I chose Black Linen Micarta for the scales and copied the shape from the old Redpoint razor. I decided that I was going to inlay a "Real Redpoint" in these Micarta scales.. I tried two different ways of doing it, and finally ended up using liquid Red acrylic.. The wedge is also Red acrylic and the pins are Nickel Silver with SS washers..








This is a razor that I am really looking forward to test shaving

The blade after polishing





Bluing and stopping the process with WD-40



Re-blued





The scales being built

What a super looking razor, and first class workmanship.

Regards Jamie.

Super job G ! What a nice lookin' blade. The bluing looks great & the inlay suits the theme nicely too

Very sinister! Love it

Spot on Glen. I really like the contrast of the polished blade against the blued tang. The red inlay looks great too. Excellent restore


How did you do the liquid acrylic?

Stu

Sweet work Glen, the black and red combination is always a winner in my books.
Thanks for all the progress pics.
Grant

Really nice. I like the bluing, it adds a nice touch. I'm also siding with Grant...black and red are a great combo in my books!

Great job Glen! That just looks amazing and I can see why you'd be looking forward to test shaving that one.

As usual you have done an outstanding job. Everything looks great.