I have been shaving for several years with this Morris "Collegiate" made in Solingen. Hopefully I didn't ruin a collector's item. It is a good shaver, but I didn't like the cheesy plastic scales, so I made some new scales out of Koa and made the wedge out of ebony.
Im not one for being able to tell you about collectors value.. but that looks 100 times better! Great job..
i sorta like the look of the plastic ones but i love tigers so the new scales definitely look better. looks like a totally different razor
Beautiful work! Is that just the angle and lighting that makes the blade look like it's been blued, or did you do something to the blade, too?
Thanks for the comments. Truckman, I did not do anything to the blade other than to clean it up of a little tarnish and surface rust that had collected around the pivot. I used some 20000 grit 3M wet dry sandpaper with the grain. I was even able to get out some grind marks that were a result of mass production. The blue appearance is from the reflected light of the cloth that it was sitting on. Part of what prompted me to rescale this razor is that pivot pin was very tight and I had a hard time drying it out. On the new scales I have a brass pin and washers to act as bearings and there is just enough space to slide a sheet of tissue paper in there to dry it out, should a drop of water drip down the tang during the shave.
Gorgeous re-scale! I love the look of that Koa wood, and the ebony spacer is cool but understated enough to be like something that only you recognize when showing it off as a really high quality, personal, touch.
A much richer look overall with the Koa scales. The original scales just make it look so "institutional."
