Thread: Two restorations/rescales

Earlier this year, I bought a bunch of old, well-worn razors and restored the prettiest of the stack. That left me with several that had very heavy hone wear on their toes. But now that my summer holidays have started and my profs have given me some pretty good grades in my master's course, I felt like taking up the challenge.

The first one started out like this, although the excessive hone wear is not as apparent on this picture:


I simply polished with a Dremel polish wheel and straightened out the edge on a DMT8C. The scales and wedge are acrylic, sanded until it got a brushed look and feel. The first shave was a bit disappointing, but the second rather good. I'm waiting for my new Shaptons to arrive and take it beyond that.






This one was not from the same collection, but I got it off the flea bay for cheap. It was thickly covered in rust and patina, I could hardly see the lovely etching until after a bit of hand polishing. Notice the dark spot near the heal, I had to remove a lot of metal off the edge to get past that weak spot. I gave her a small smile to limit the total amount of metal removed.


I waited for some (second grade) ebony to arrive in the mail and set out to make one-piece scale(s). Again, I only polished the blade with a Dremel felt wheel, keeping the blade on a wet rag to dissipate heat.



If you look closely, you can see that I broke the scale into scales when I tried to widen the gap in between. I could have pinned it, but wanted to keep the one-piece look, so settled with glue instead.





The ebony is not finished with anything other than sanding. Do you think it is necessary? I thought ebony is oily and dense enough to withstand water, but I have no experience with that myself. I have some mineral oil that I might use.


Thank you for looking. Comments and criticisms are very welcome!