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A Tale of woe,
Hi Guys, A tale of woe for the unwary, today i received my razor i bought on a well known auction site, a nice 11/16 hollow ground wade and butcher, the sale was fine, just as described.
i ripped open the packaging, the razor was sharp almost shave ready. but the blade was a little dull, so out came the dremel polishing head and polish, just about finished and tragedy i caught the blade edge and shattered the blade.
Absolutely gutted.
Well the upside of this tragedy is that i can now look for another one.
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umm not to be the jerk in the room... but why did you think a dremel with a polishing head and compound would work here?? or even sharpen a dull blade??
you need to invest some cash in some hones if you are looking to sharpen your gear...
oh well live and learn right :P
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I think he may have meant dull as in not shiny and was trying to polish
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ah that makes sense. my mistake then.
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Hi guys thankyou for your response, yes i was on about dull in the sense of not being shiny, I usually do the polishing with the dremel set to low speed but this time i did it on fast, just clipped the shaving edge and shards of metal all over. yup a tough lesson, but life is full of lessons it how we choose to learn from them that is the challenge.
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Wow, I probably would have cried for hours. Oh well, like you said, at least you can look for another one, maybe this happened for a reason and you are going to find a great razor! Good luck!
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I was rather narked with myself, but it gives me the chance to buy more razors, got a few bids on ebay going, but looked on whipped dog yesterday and he has a very nice razor on there i quite fancy, so depending on how the ebay bids go i will buy from whipped dog, has anybody used them?.
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I suppose the purpose of this thread was to highlight the dangers of dremels when polishing blades for other newbies.
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Whipped Dog has lots of satisfied customers, on this site and at Badger and Blade.
The "Classifieds" here often have low-priced blades, but they get sold really fast.
Charles