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cannonfodder
A few months ago I re did a Double Arrow razor just to see what they were like. It is a respectable razor. The steel is good, it holds a good edge and shaves darn nice but they look like a 10 year old ground them. Lopsided grinding heavy grind marks unrefined edges, the cutting blade itself is ground properly but the rest of the steel, heel, toe, tang, spine, are covered with mill marks and not necessarily evenly ground.
I picked up 3 of them a couple months ago to try doing some regrind work to clean them up and make a good looking, good shaving razor. This is the first of the three. I reground the tip to a French point, added a thumb notch, reground the tang, spine, then gave the entire thing a hand sanding and buffed it out to a mirror finish.
The scales are made from quilted redwood burl finished in epoxy resin. The wedge is Red Nara and the pins made from 1/16 brass rod with brass over stainless washers. The third pin is for estedics, there is no spacer behind them but the big blade and big scales benefit from the extra pin. It breaks up the burl a little.
I have to hone it tonight and give it a shave test. If it all passes muster it will find its way into the classifieds. If you have never seen a Double Arrow razor, it is the one in the poorly fitted white plastic scales.
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