Great Site Folks!

So, I’ve wanted to post something useful to the group but every question I’ve had has found its solution here on SRP! Just a few mentions here:

Removing pins

Using a split tip drill bit was just a bit of the great advice I found:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ce-pins-2.html
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...elers-saw.html

In regards to honing:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...icroscope.html

Fantastic images of what to look for in a honed edge through the various stages:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...sses-pics.html

On restoring a strops:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...ing-strop.html

And some advice on Ebay:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/begin...rs-ebay-2.html

I’ve been lucky on a couple of lot purchases but for the most part, by the time all is said and done you may end up paying more for a blade plus the cost of restoring it than it would be to run over to Bob Keye's site and pick up a real gem of a blade for even less AND she’s ready to shave with to boot!

If the country was run with the same attention to detail that this site gets and the political parties would cooperate like you folks do we’d be back in the running as a nation!

Oh and BTW, here's a couple of restores I've recently completed.

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Thanks!

Yes definately a great site!!! Looks like a machinist tool box full of straights great idea!!!

Nice work on the restores. Really digging the Steam ship one.

Do do they have like some sort of monument in Ottumwa to Radar O'Riely?

HA! Not to Radar but Tom Arnold and Rosanne Barr have some sites dedicated to them here in town. The Tom Arnold Center here on the college campus was built to honor Tom. Funny you mention it though, my last name is Rader and the locals always end up pronouncing it Radar!