Thread: Ugh...... sharpening..........

By no means do I consider myself a razor restorer, but I did restore a Butcher Brothers half-hollow square point with blonde celluloid scales I bought at an antique store. The blade was pitted and rusty all over, but the edge was in pretty good shape, so I decided to try my hand at bringing it back. First, it took a lot of hand sanding with progressively higher grits to get the blade presentable and functional.

Now for the honing part. I used a yellow coticule and nothing else. When I started, I could literally make a sawing motion across my forearm without so much as breaking the skin. I had to break the project up over several days. Each time taking an hour or so taking milky slurry into mud. I had never so much as sharpened a lawn mower blade, so I didn't know what to expect. Anyway, I really did think my eye balls would fall out of my head before that thing ever cut arm hair, but that day finally came, and now that Sheffield blade is one of my favorite shavers!