Hey I'm getting good at this!

So, I've been learning new tricks with my buffer so that I don't need to use greaseless where I can avoid it... Well, this first razor is a Joseph Elliot's 7/8 that I just unpinned, buffed thoroughly, then repinned.

The second blade is my new Wostenholm "Damascus Steel" Frameback. It's 8/8 at the toe, 13/16 at the heel, and I LOVE IT! It's such a pretty blade. Wostenholms are my favorites, and this is my first frameback, and my first stubtail. It also had a faint etch that said Damascus Steel on the blade and a bunch of spiral/whorl patterns on the blade... Well, with careful buffing, I cleaned away almost ALL of the staining, and got this thing looking WONDERFUL! It's awaiting scales from The Gentleman's Best. Bloodwood :D

Here are the before pictures, the Elliot's wasn't too bad, but the Wostenholm looked messy. They both cleaned up great

http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...y-victory.html

And now for the afters, sorry that my photography is terrible!

wow...good job!

pcdad

That Damascus effect looks awesome! I haven't seen that before.

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Originally Posted by Legion

That Damascus effect looks awesome! I haven't seen that before.

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I've been trying to find a frameback for a long time... Wostenholms are my favorite blades.... I wish I had a stub tail razor.... Man, all these people in SOTD have such cool etched blades and I've got nothing.... Why do I keep finding such small blades?

And now all of those problems are taken care of at the same time! It's a big, 8/8 Wostenholm Frameback with a Stubtail and some sweet etching! Win!

Also, if you look closely (can't recall if you can see it in the pictures) it says Damascus Steel on the blade, it's just faint. But the swirled patterns are sweet.

The pattern on that beautiful frameback is known as engine turning.

Love that blade shape.Someday I would like to get one shaped like that.Do they shave nice,looks like they would be quite nice and dependable ? It just looks so..so..MANLY ! (DRUMS ECHOING) Very nice. :)

All wostenholms, as far as I'm concerned, shave fantastically... This one just has so much going for it though... I can't tell you how it shaves yet (waiting on some scales from The Gentleman's Best (by the way, Ray over there is FANTASTIC to work with!)) and then I'm going to hone her up :)

Nice work !!!