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12-30-2021, 12:24 AM #1Senior Member
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B. J. EYRE & Co. CHALLENGE RAZOR
Challenge by name and nature!! This one took quite a bit of elbow grease and head scratching. Blade was a bit of a mess and scales had seen better days. A lot of blemishes and pitting on blade. Lots of hand sanding here. Tang, tail and spine were polished but left the blade face a satin finish to cover some pitting that was too deep to try remove. My satin finishing is slowly improving, but still a ways to go and always learning. Scales came off a trashed razor. They were way too long so had to shorten them and drill new holes for repositioned wedge. Then reprofile scales ends around the wedge.
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12-30-2021, 10:08 AM #2Senior Member
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Another great job! reminds me that i have some waiting for the same treatment.
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Wow, I'm really impressed.
Looks like a new razor, I don't even see any pitting.- - Steve
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12-30-2021, 10:39 AM #4Senior Member
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Love that satin finish. Shows that brilliantly shiny doesn’t have to be the goal.
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12-30-2021, 11:31 AM #5Senior Member
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Thanks Steve. The pitting is there, but the satin finish does a 'cover up' job.
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Very nice save.
Your satin finish looks quite uniform.... Nice!Tathra11 likes this.Mike
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12-30-2021, 01:48 PM #7Skeptical Member
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Nice work. Satin finish is a tough one to do by hand.
Tathra11 likes this.It's just Sharpening, right?
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12-30-2021, 02:11 PM #8Senior Member
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That looks great. I find a nice even satin finish to be quite challenging.
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12-30-2021, 03:39 PM #9Hones & Honing
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I agree, a satin blade finish is very nice. Originally Posted by DZEC
A number of years ago one of our guys, Joe Chandler, told me that how he made a satin finish was to go up to 2,000 grit then go back down to a 1,000 grit.markbignosekelly and Tathra11 like this.Randolph Tuttle, a SRP Mentor for residents of Minnesota & western Wisconsin
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Thanks for that. I’ve been searching the restore threads for how to get a satin finish and you just saved me hours of reading. Originally Posted by randydance062449
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