Thread: NY Thistle Cut co 6/8 Vinatge Restore

This one is all mine, I am a big fan of Thistle razors anyway, but when I saw a 6/8 with no visible hone wear I was all over it...

Those were the good points now let me tell ya the bad

I won the Razor for $12.50
The %^&%^$##*& E-bay seller charged 8.84 for shipping
and I even wrote her a note warning her about overcharging for shipping would not bode well for her feedback... Still debating on the feedback

The spine and tang were pretty bad with rust but the blade was near perfect...





I popped the single pin scales and started buffing, not to bad actually other then between the rust and the light tang stamp I barely kept the Markers Mark very faintly on there...

I polished up the scales again and took the finish to only a Satin glow that I like, instead of the mirror that it originally was.. Yes they do come mirror finished from the factory, even full hollows... I read that "No full hollows were originally mirrored" on another forum and laughed my butt off... Anyway, after all the polishing on the scales and the blade this is what she looks like now...









I set a bevel on a King 1k and ran the Shapton GS 1-2-4-6-8-16-30 using the light slurry technique all the way through until the 30k, then switched to the 3-2-1 finish on that stone I like so much...

I posted in the SOTD about the shave