Thread: Scored some more vintage razors today!

so i really like the vintage razors even though i am brand new to this and still dont really know what i am doing. or looking at. i do know i have been drawn to dubl ducks for whatever reason. i have been wanting to find one and today was my lucky day. I paid 11.00 total for my dubl duck and 3 other vintage razors (like 3 bucks each). One is a Spike, the other i cant really make out, and one has a big mustache on it and nothing else. i chose them cause the edge looked saveable. from my very very limated knowledge the dubl duck is a full hollow. the mustache one is a wedge and feels really heavy. im sure you guys can tell more just from the pictures than i can tell you. i want to restore them but dont want to ruin the temper on the blade or anything. ill send them to somebody to hone once i have cleaned them up. any advice on the best way to clean them up is welcome!

Looks to me that your moustache is in fact a bow. Possibly a Wade & Butcher Bow razor?

For anything to do with restoration/cleaning, etc, this is the place to start:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...wers-here.html

I love hunting for vintage razors. Yesterday I found an old G Johnson yesterday for 17 bucks. From the research I have done on this board it looks like it was made in the 1830s-50s. The blade looked pretty solid other than there was a lot of wear on the spine. I was able to tape it and get a decent edge on it but its not quite shave ready. Someone with more experience probably could get it there though. You never know what you are going to get. The other day I found an old Simmons in horrible condition with the blade rusted through and chipped and they wanted 100 bucks for it. Go figure.

Well, if they hold edge properly than you have a good deal. I will highly recommend use hand sanding using sanding paper. takes longer but there are some benefits. I think you can do it. Rust is light to almost none so I would start 400+ paper and up to 3000 and followed with polishing with MAAS (or something else) or just clean them up well and honed if you don`t mind this kind of old look of the razor:-)

Yeah, as with most anything else it certainly helps to have some idea as to the value of these things. I was in an antique shop out of town last weekend and their prices were absolutely ridiculous. $145 for a rusty generic Solingen blade with busted scales, $95 for a King Kutter with a frown and cracked scales, and so on.

Any pics of the G Johnson?

here they are if I did it right