I admit, I'm a sucker for a blonde, well blonde scales that is. This Fredrick Reynolds chopper is a rescue. It cleaned up rather well. It honed up okay. I didn't take off enough steel when I reset the bevel. It did give a good shave. When I rechecked it under the microscope, it looked like a saw blade. This is the first razor in a project I'm doing for myself. I haven't done a razor just for myself in quite awhile. I decided to work a razor into my bench schedule occasionally just for fun. I'm going to build a seven day set of various choppers. I'm trying to get about a 1,000 years of total age in seven razors.