Originally Posted by
Joed
Here's one that caught my eye. It's a 8/8's the seller is asking $400+ for and is noted as shave ready.
First, the seller is coping one of our most popular restorers by adding some dice to display how good a finish is on the razor. Problem is that the razor is heavily pitted and all that was done to the razor was knock the high spots off and polish what ever reached the buffer. Next, if you look at the toe, the point of the bevel is rounded off from one side of the bevel to the other. Obviously the toe is not sharp and w/ a near wedge it will take a year of Sundays to set the bevel to the toe. A close inspection will expose more than one bevel near the tow. I do see a bevel down the rest of the blade but I do not see any hone wear near the spine to match the width of the bevel. If this razor was sharpened to shave ready it was not done on a hone by any method we recognize or it was not sharpened on a hone. These are the most obvious traits I can spot. Can anyone else see anything else that would not make this razor a wise purchase? Please disregard the price, we are only talking about the traits of razors in this thread and I only mentioned price to get a feel for the auction of this razor. The seller should not be mentioned if you know who it is.