Thread: My first! – A Renovated Pyramid

Great job & nice work on the peening.
Wasn't keen on synthetic scales but you've just changed my mind.

Fantastic restore....Congrats and enjoy that beauty.

Originally Posted by Ditch Doc

Your razor looks great! I really like the color texture of the scales. In your opinion is the tumbler better than a bench grinder with buffing wheels? I saw this kit, and am sorely tempted to order it.

Caswell Inc. - Buffing Kits

I shelled out about $100 for a craftsman buffer machine, pretty much the same as a bench grinder just built for buffing wheels instead. I used it to polish the EAB 7 day set I restored and only did some light hand sanding, probably around 15 minutes on each blade I also soaked them in evaporust from caswell for a little while before buffing them with black-white-blue then maas on the buffer. There wasn't much rust on them though when I got them, a few spots here and there but mostly clean. I was pretty careful but it was definately much faster than trying to get to mirror with sandpaper and the black will remove some thick spots of rust pretty quick. Blade can heat up though on the buffer, especially the tang so sometimes have to slow up a bit to let it cool if its getting too warm.

I only used floppy and sewn cloth wheels, the sisal wheels seemed too course to really use for a razor. I didn't use gloves and didn't cut myself or have a razor go flying but was pretty careful and made sure only to apply the razor to the wheel so if it did grab it it would only go a few inches straight down to the work surface.

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