Thread: Welcome to the Workshop: How do I / Where do I / What do I / answers are here

Welcome to the restoration forum.
This place is dedicated to everything related to restoring straight razors.
It is managed and maintained by Gssixgun and Maximilan. If you have any remarks about this place, feel free to PM either one or both of us.

This thread is also meant to be an index of the information that should be easily acessible to all restorers.

If you want to add info to the index in this thread, Please PM either Max or Glen with a link to the thread that we should look at....



Discussions


Cleaning & Polishing:


Handsanding howto - Straight Razor Place Forums

(New?) Hand Sanding Technique

How to Make a Handsanding Gun that feeds sandpaper

low budget grinder - Straight Razor Place Forums

New 1/2" sanding mandrel tutorial. - Straight Razor Place Forums

Using a Vibratory Tumbler to polish a razor

Using Greaseless Compounds:

Walking a razor though the buffing wheels

Guide to Polishing Compounds:

Scale Making Tips:

Nuts and Bolts and Washers oh my From Microfasteners...

How I make scales...step by step - Straight Razor Place Forums

Illustrated Guide to making a Lined Wedge

Step by step creation of a fancy lined wedge

You Can Make A Wedge! The Icedog Method

Scale Repair 201 - or slightly more advanced

Easy Scale Fitting... Tip from the Bench

CA-Super Glue, Finishing Hints and Tips

Scale holders for finishes

Quick/easy stand for finishing scales

Illustrated Guide to Fixing Warped Scales..

Fusion Scale Making Thread and links

Total "Reaper" Restores Floppyshoes/GsSixgun

How to adjust for a razor that hits the scales


A start to finish restore:

Start to Finish Razor Restore !!!!

Epoxy resin finish, the how to:

Epoxy resin finish, the how to - Straight Razor Place Forums

How to pin / unpin scales:

Nuts and Bolts and Washers oh my From Microfasteners...

Advice on Pins

Razor Peening Tips for Beginners

How do you pin scales? - Straight Razor Place Forums

An Illustrated Guide to Un-pinning and Re-pinning

Flush Cutter - Pin removal method !!!

Brass & Nickel Silver Rods for pins

Making Bearing/thrust washers for razors

Vintage style Thrust/Bearing Internal Washers

Buffing pins and washers

Some tricks to popping pins out...

Sleeving a Pivot Hole:

The Illustrated Guide to Sleeving an Oversized Pivot...

Adjustable pins:

As requested... Adjustable Pins! - Straight Razor Place Forums

Where to find those Hexhead custom screws

Actual videos of restoration stuff...

Pinning Video

Video: Straight Razor Restoration: Start to Finish

Straight Razor Pinning 101 (Videos)

scale making video, G10




Sources of material

Pins, washers and screws
Micro Fasteners - Hobbyists Source - Locknuts - Washers - Machine Screws - Fasteners - Rivets - Wood Screws If you want the wrench for the 1/16 nuts'n bolts, ask for part #WR0/ $4.50 in the comment field of your order.
SmallParts.com: The Hardware Store for Researchers and Developers
Lee Valley Tools - Woodworking Tools, Gardening Tools, Hardware
KnifeKits.com Designer Knife Kits - Knife Making Supplies - Sheath and Holster Making Supplies
Custom Knives, Knives, Knife Parts, Gems, Jewelry
Metalliferous for sterling silver rods and other things
Buffing / polishing supplies
Buffing Polishing Supplies Buffing Wheels Compound Polishing Aluminum Polishing Kit - Caswell Inc.
Gunsmithing - Shop Gunsmithing Tools & Supplies at MidwayUSA

Tools:
What are the most used tools for restoration....

Scale materials:

Exotic Wood Exotic Wood, Birdseye Maple, Curly Maple & Tiger Maple | Bell Forest Products

Monster 1 x 6 Inch Acrylic Blanks

Clear and Smoked Acrylic sheets Delvie's Plastics Inc.: Transparent Plexiglass


In Canada??? KnifeMaker.ca

External resources

Scale making tutorial
Make Scales


Happy restoration!

Guys, I am leaving Bruno's very informative welcome to the Workshop Forum Letter up as there are many great links in there that are still spot on....

I do however now want to direct you to our very own section of the Wiki

Category:Repair & Restoration - Straight Razor Place Wiki

Where you will find a growing number of Entries and even Video's of How To's for your restoration needs...

Please feel free to PM Gssixgun or Maximilian with any concerns with the Workshop Forum....

Keep in the back of your mind the the Restoration Chat is well into it's 2nd year on Tuesday night 8:00pm in the chat room....

Thanks

Gentlemen & Ladies (now)
Since we have been experiencing a huge growth in the last year of SRP
I thought I better post an addition to the Workshop forum guidelines....

We Don't condone the discussion of prices whether it be the price that you should pay for a razor on e-bay or the price that it would cost to restore said razor....... Please keep these discussions to PM's or Emails not in the threads on the open forum... This is just SRP etiquette it is not written in the rules so it has been a little confusing....

Most all of us that do Restoration/Honing are listed here in the classifieds many of us have our e-mail and websites listed also...


Member Services - Straight Razor Place Classifieds


Still confused ???? Feel free to PM a MOD,,, Any of us will be more than happy to point you in the right direction...

I have updated the Workshop Sticky with a multitude of threads that pertain to what we do here in the Workshop ... I know there are more out there so please PM me or Max with the links and we will get them in the sticky

Thank you in advance

Max and Glen the Restoraholics