Another "Don't you hate it when?"... thread

[2knives]

It bothers me when someone does this to a blade with such potential for good patina...






Kinda makes me wonder what they were thinking. Did they just think it was going to polish up like magic with some 320 sand paper? Maybe it was a one-sixteenth assed effort to restore a blade... anyhow, thanks for listening to my rant/vent.

[dave5225]

Yeah , I hate it when someone takes sandpaper to a blade , and leaves scratches in it . I can get most rust off with nothing more than Flitz polish .

[BKratchmer]

And the horrid thing is, almost every vintage blade I've come across has that same thing done to it. It's an epidemic.

[dave5225]

And the horrid thing is, almost every vintage blade I've come across has that same thing done to it. It's an epidemic.

Yeah , now and then I've found the "rare gems" that haven't been scratched , but they are the exception , and not the rule .

[Slartibartfast]

The worse ones are when someone attmpted to use a a sanding drum on a dremel......

[JimmyHAD]

I've been messing with collecting straight razors off and on since the mid 1980s and I miss the days when you found razors as is. There are some great restorers out there who can make a rusted blade better than new but they are few and far between. Seems like more and more of what I see on ebay is 'shave ready' and dremeled.

[2knives]

The worse ones are when someone attmpted to use a a sanding drum on a dremel......

Yes! they look similar to the wood mites marks do just under the bark of a rotting pine.

[BKratchmer]

Seems like more and more of what I see on ebay is 'shave ready' and dremeled.

It's awful, isn't it? I've been shopping for large lots, and I haven't yet found one where enough blades were unbroken or un-dremeled to make it worth my shekels.

[2knives]

...I haven't yet found one where enough blades were unbroken or un-dremeled to make it worth my shekels.

Yeah, pretty sure they do that on purpose, throw in a bunch of crappy razors with a nice one so they will get rid of the bad ones and get money for the good ones at the same time.

[smythe]

What hurts me most… they will attempt to clean up a little tarnish and sacrifice the lovely etching in hopes of getting higher bid for a clean blade. Add insult to injury… they say “I did not clean the blade”.