Thread: Grandfather's Razors

The one with the spiral scales is cell rot for sure. Do get rid of it, or at least keep it away from the others, because the gases can affect stuff around it. The one immediately below that may be salvageable since it has horn scales. Looks like red rust on it and it is the black stuff that is really deep into the steel. Nice assortment. Congrats on your inheritance and welcome to SRP.

Definitely some keepers in there - congrats!

BTW - I gotta say great choice of quote under your user name on the other forum
A lyric from one of my favorite songwriters and a picture from one of my favorite movies......

@Ryan: Thank you. I very much enjoy that singer/songwriter and movie as well. Strange how much in common you find out you have with others on forums where you share one interest or aspect of life.

Also, so far the only one that shows significant corrosion where scale CONTACT is made is the one with the red rust running through the center of the blade. The rest of the blades have evenly spread corrosion, or corrosion on parts of the blade that are exposed. For the heavily rusted ones, what would you suggest for a home restoration avenue of approach? I would like to get the blades in good shape and then observe how fast they may deteriorate thereafter to help determine which handles are safe to remain.

And to JimmyHAD and onimaru, I have removed eat razor from its cardboard box and place them alone in separate ziploc bags, to keep one from affecting another. And I'm aware this could cause exponential decay of any that are already afflicted, but this will also help me weed them out faster while also protecting the others. Thoughts? Slaps upside the back of my head?

Originally Posted by williamsld8

And to JimmyHAD and onimaru, I have removed eat razor from its cardboard box and place them alone in separate ziploc bags, to keep one from affecting another. And I'm aware this could cause exponential decay of any that are already afflicted, but this will also help me weed them out faster while also protecting the others. Thoughts? Slaps upside the back of my head?

LOL, Nahh, no slaps upside the head . Quarantine is a good idea & once cleaned up if the scales are an issue you can get tarnish or rust very quickly from the scales .
btw another thing to help identify cell rot is rust patterns mimicked on both sides of the blade.
Re home restoration read this Hand sanding a blade - Straight Razor Place Wiki
And G'luck

Wow, man, that's a great hand-me-down to receive from grampa. I think my grandfather's shaving gear probably ended up being tossed

Nice collection!!

As others have said #6 is probably junk, I wouldn't spend any time on that one. Also the last one has some pretty nasty rust and chips on the shaving edge, that one is probably fixable but you will need to take off lots of metal.