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?