Thread: How unrealistic would it be to try and restore this razor by myself?

Originally Posted by Gasman

But for a good edge, it takes a lot of time and effort and time and more time. Oh, and a little more time. If you put in an hour or two every day for 6 months or so it will happen. Kidding. But that is just to let you know it's not something you just do the first time.

I would be dead seriously fine with trying it a couple times a week for the next 6 months, my only real concern would be causing further damage to the blade. If I were to attempt to hone it myself 20-25 times before I got it right, would I not lose an obvious amount of blade? I don't want my 6/8" blade to go down to a 5/8" blade by the time I can get my first good shave out if it, if this is avoidable. Also you say honing takes a long time to learn and I believe you, but I hear that restoring, or specifically restoring the edge of a damaged blade is much harder yet. I'll try embedding some photos but they are hi-res and there is a ton of them, I would likely have to kill the resolution to upload any of them here, imgur is the most popular image-host on the web though it shouldn't be an issue really.