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    Hello everyone. After a long absence, so long in fact that I can't remember my old user name and password from the forum that was compromised.
    Here is a W&B that I shaved with today after finally completing the resto.

    I forgot to use tape along the spine and I also forgot to sand and smooth the inside of the scales. Why, I have no idea. New Rosewood scales. I feared to put it to the greasless because I would probably have eradicated the remaining nomenclature that is readable but faint.
    OMgosh!! Scratches, scratches and still more scratches. I'm embarrassed.

    It performed the parlor trick; AKA cut a hair as you drag it across the blade. Pops hairs on my arm.
    Anyway it shaves awesome.








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    Restored one very similar, recently. Like yours, it needed a lot of the heel, reshaped. You still need to thin and remove some of the stabilizers, so your not honing on them. Its causing a frown, just in front of them.

    Their not really meant to be Spanish points, though it is nice to shave with, they've just seen a lot of use, and time on the hones.

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    Scales look good, too.!
    You could carefully sand the insides with a fingernail file/ emory board, or sandpaper on a Popsicle stick.

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    Thanks Mike, that's a good idea. I've got a number of small files and various grits of emery boards. I see exactly what you mean about the stabilizers. Will have to work on that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by outback View Post
    Restored one very similar, recently. Like yours, it needed a lot of the heel, reshaped. You still need to thin and remove some of the stabilizers, so your not honing on them. Its causing a frown, just in front of them.

    Their not really meant to be Spanish points, though it is nice to shave with, they've just seen a lot of use, and time on the hones.

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    Scales look good, too.!
    You could carefully sand the insides with a fingernail file/ emory board, or sandpaper on a Popsicle stick.
    Hmmmm, where have I seen that razor...?
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    These were 7/8ths once if im not mistaken ?

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    Yes, they were.!
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    Quote Originally Posted by outback View Post
    Yes, they were.!
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    I have a few. The can take a wicked edge those ones.

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    W & B got it right. I also notice that for some reason my W & B razors seem to really like coticules.

    I set bevels on a 1K then go through Norton 4K/8K and end on my coti with light slurry to just water. Then I finish with CrOx on balsa.

    The edges are keen and comfortable and last a long time with just stropping on linen and leather. They refresh easily using just the coticule.
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    W & B got it right. I also notice that for some reason my W & B razors seem to really like coticules.I can verify that this is true. Mike honed the 1 above for me on a coti, and it is a beautiful edge, keen and smooth. (Sorry, I originally uploaded a pic of a different WB I rescaled, and I couldn't seem to delete it-2nd razor in the SOTD is the one.).
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    I've been searching all over the web, trying to figure out what vein that coti came from, Aaron. Out of the four that I have, this one is one of those Coties, coti lovers search for, as for finishers go.

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    Very hard, with a look of quartz in it, and a rainbow of colors. Semi hard to slurry, with DMT.
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