Balke & Schaaf 7 Day Set

Just finished restoring this set today. I had to make a decision to unpin or not and i'm glad i unpinned them. Taking care of the tiny solingen collars was tricky & re pinning was a task.
They are now hygienically clean from top to bottom. They also benefited from the addition of internal washers.

Honed on my Ozuku Karasu , the geometry is perfection and the grind is of the super thin variety . (11/16ths)
The case was disinfected and restored also..
Cheers

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Very nice. You probably have an hour or two into that....

Outstanding!

Very clean nice looking set.

I'm starting to think that you live, eat and sleep in your workshop Joseph ;). As always, great work. :chapeau

Lovely work and a fine understated classy 7 day set.

Bob

Sweet! I'll PM you my address Joseph.:nj

Thanks Guys :)
I learnt a few tricks along the way. One which was a surprise was when restoring the case..

On the outer normally i would use black shoe polish and buff away but this time i used out of date or "off" Rub n Buff. I wanted to fill in the spine stamped weekdays but the Ebony Rub n Buff had congealed and hardened apart from a semi soft portion near the bottom of the tube.
This stuff is basically back wax that shines up really glossy with next to no effort..
The outer of the case now looks like it has been dyed and glossed.

This inside of the case was sprayed down with fabric sanitiser and hoovered with a mini hoover attachment for cleaning inside PC's . A bit silly making something that old and made of wood/cardboard wet...but it had to be made hygienic and fresh smelling.

The blades should be amazing shavers because the edges are so thin and they are made of that mushey type stainless steel , that's my best description..

A bit of info:
Balke & Schaaf KG, Atlantic-Werk. Founded in 1897. Solingen, Bismarckstrasse 85/87 in 1920; Solingen-Wald, Grünewalderstrasse 34 in 1939. Brand names: 'Apollo' (1923), 'Atlantic' (1918), 'Cordial' (1919), 'Concordia' (1918), 'Fjord' (1918), 'Jermak' (1902*), 'Khediw' (1904*), 'Kontinental' (1918), 'Last Not Least' (1923), 'Liberal' (1918), 'Mein Freund' (after 1924), 'Nadeschda' (1913*), 'Onegin' (1913*), 'Pacific' (1919), 'Polarlys; (1917), 'Tristan' (1923). [Note: several of the marks (*) are usually found in Cyrillic.]

That’s a nice looking set and case.

I always wanted to get a nice 7 day set but never could find one, but that would be the one you have there, very nice !!!!

Very nice set! I’m always impressed by your work.

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Originally Posted by DZEC

Very nice set! I’m always impressed by your work.

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Thanks DZEC much appreciated ..
Jnatcat: This set has one razor with hone wear and that is exactly what i would do with a 7 day set, use just one :)

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Originally Posted by JOB15

Thanks DZEC much appreciated ..
Jnatcat: This set has one razor with hone wear and that is exactly what i would do with a 7 day set, use just one :)

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I see the logic behind using one but I would choose to use them all and when honing I would use tape, I normally shave every other day and after shaving lately I have been doing 10-12 laps on a .5 CrOx pasted paddle strop and it seems to keep the edges going for me and also keeps hone wear in check.