Thread: repairing razors

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Martin gives good advise!

Go easy on the oil and slow on the restore. Those are likely ivory scales, so oil is not good for them. Perhaps lightly oiling the blades and wiping it off. Try to leave the scales alone.
In fact, a good bit of advise is to leave the entire set alone until you gain necessary skills to tackle it. JMHO

Much experience and proper procedure is necessary.

I could recommend learning on something cheap to gain experience.

With a complete 7 day set, you cannot afford to mess-up at all!

The last line says it all.

Bob

Tom, Martin, Chevhead, Ultra all speak truth.

If you are reseller and want to maximize your profit, pay a pro to do the restore. A seven day "set" with one totally screwed is in reality 6 razors and a screw-up.

You can count on two weeks per piece learning how to do restores. With only the pics provided, there could be massive corrosion not seen.

Hello yes they are ivory I also picked up a ivory handled strop with them. I wanted to fix these up as my first straights as I was using a wilkinson pall mall safety shaver before and it seemed to have good steel.

You could just clean what you can and send them out for a honing. If you start with shave ready blades, you will find it much easier to get you shaving technique down.

I did as Rezdog recommended and cleaned them up lightly. I hit them with the dremel tool to git rid of the surface rust (mostly at the pivot) I then polished them up with something called maas polish as thats what the hardware store nearest me sold. They turned out great (In my opinion) except the sunday which had more surface rust then the others Its the top one in the picture. Now I am just waiting on my sharpening stones.

Do you have a shave ready benchmark?
If not, you might want to send a couple out.
If you are not very experienced with straight razor honing, it is important for new guys to tape the spine.
At some point you will figure out how to hone without wearing the tape, at that point it is optional to tape or not to tape, in the mean time be nice to your razors. Many new honers have stuffed there blades by not taping.
Nice to see the clean up. They seem to have come along nicely.
Good job.

I will say this once again but for a different reason....
If you have not honed a razor before...PLEASE practice on some lesser razors FIRST.

Honing is another thing that seems easy, until it's not...then it's too late.

The 7 day set is not easy to come by (especially how nice this set is) and it would be a darn shame if it got messed up.

It's already been said, but I too recommend buying a few cheap razors that look like they may be beyond help. If you can work on those to get to grips with your techniques, then it will be a little money well invested. You should be able to pick up a razor with a broken blade or broken scales pretty easy. Try to remove scales without damaging them. Re-pin them. Take them apart again, re-pin etc. If you can buy a few old dogs and maybe use the scales from one on a blade from another etc.

Your 7 day set is a great looking buy. Good luck with them!

we can only give advice,

So far you haven't taken it

This is sometimes the outcome of forging your own path

http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...ml#post1734877


Keep in mind that wrecking one razor of this set devalues the entire RARE set which you might have already done by using a Dremel