Thread: Genco - Family Heirloom Restore in Curly Nara

So this one is family in a round about way
A little after my Brother in Law got into shaving with a straight razor he was given this razor, a Genco 5/8 full hollow Round point, which belonged to his Great Grandfather... So guess where he sent it for restoration ???






The scales as you can see above were shot, so I asked him what we were going to go with, bringing up a Red Lava acrylic option, met with a slightly less than enthusiastic Hmmmmm
So we decided on a reddish wood, and I picked the Curly Nara I had used in the past... With the grain and dark swirls in the figure it resembled the original celluloids... I pulled and reformed the old bolsters and fitted them on the new scales which are finished with 7 coats of Tru-Oil...The wedge is made from Ebony.
I had done a full polish on the blade, going from 80 grit Greaseless through Chrome polishing compound on the buffers, resulting in a near perfect mirror...
I am really thinking of shooting a honing video on this razor as Don/Colorado wants some pics of me fixing this one up, so I figured I could do a "How to Hone" vid and kill two birds with one stone so to speak...