Vintage blade not shave ready

How do I know how much help a vintage blade will need? I got a little too excited when shopping for the hubby a blade. So I have one blade that is already here and another I am picking up at the post office tomorrow. I wanted to keep one of these for my husband to use as a project piece during the cold weather. He loves a nice challenging project and since he has never done this before ... well he should stay busy for a bit.

Do I just take pics and ask various people on the classifieds if this is worth sending to them to be honed and such? I have a Boker Solingen Straight Razor sitting with me right now. The blade looks fine to me but I am no expert. I am judging it based on my kitchen knives so that will tell you how not expert I am. There are no nicks, chips, or rust. The blade is dirty and is not shiny but it is sharp as i found out when I assumed it would not be sharp

The handle almost looks like those plastic turtle shell barretts my mother used to buy to keep my hair back but it looks like someone tried carving on it a little bit and there might be a crack forming. All things not mentioned when I bought this. It is awful pretty though.

Soooo what should I do with it. Have it fixed up for him and let him have the old wade and butcher one that looked a bit rougher to practice on? Or just no more getting excited when I do ebaying in the middle of the night?

I'd imagine you could take your pick of "honers/restorers" from classifieds and email them detailed high res pics for a quote.

My guess is that the scales you describe are tortoise-shell design cellulose... maybe someone can fix them, but from what I hear cellulose is quite hard to repair, so you may have to replace them.

That said, yes, I would use the worse state razor as a project, as it sounds like there's not much needed for the other one.

I gotta stop getting excited when i see bidding start on ebay. I think I got more excited about the blades than he did.

You could also take pictures and put them in the post. That way we can see what you have, and can make recommendations from there.

I wouldn't just flood people with pictures in PM tho.

Ok I did my best to take pics. For some odd reason children running at 100 mph are easier to take good pics of than razors. You can see in the one upclose shot of the mark on the blade that something has been done to the scale in that one spot.

Thanks for the Photo. There are several great SRP members who can restore this and make it shine. Check them out in the classifieds.

A vintage Boker always has SRP members jumping with excitement.

Good Luck,

Pabster