I converted to DE and badger brush shaving several years ago and have always wanted to try out the next step-straight razor shaving. A while back I ended up getting two old razors that seemed in decent shape. I took the scales off one, as I thought they looked a bit odd and plan to make new ones for it. I cleaned both up in my brass tumbler which did a decent job of cleaning up the main gunk on the blades. I kind of like the look of them, so I don't plan to shine them up any more than they currently are. I make knives and was considering getting various stones to try honing myself, but I think I've talked myself out of that. These are a really different animal than "regular" knives and the accompanying cost of all the stones is a bit steep if I don't use them frequently... So, the plan is to look up someone on here and send them out to get properly up to shaving sharp. I was hoping the kind folks here would be good enough to take a look at what I have and give some opinions? Also, I have a question or two on strops...but I'll address that below... Here are the razors:


Before any cleanup


And after






You can see the top end of the spine here (sort of...) is ground at an odd angle. I'm assuming that wasn't from the factory and that someone did that later...?



Here's the other one. I can't remember the name and it's pretty worn on the tang. I think it might have been a Wolstenholm & Sons?

Before



After