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Evolution of a W Greaves&Sons Sheaf Works
It has been a while since I stopped to do any work for myself so I finished up some wood working tonight and decided to dig through my to do project box. I piked up this Greaves razor several months ago. It is a 6/8 wedge with some moderate rust on the blade. The scales are actually in good shape but the entire thing needs depined to properly restore. I do not want to take the W.Greaves&Sons stamp off blade but it needs some extensive work to properly clean the blade. So Gingerly removed the scales and started working.
First it got a scraping to take off the flake rust
A pass on the 180 greaseless compounds to knock off the worst of the rust.
Then the 400 grit to clean it up a little
Then the 600 compound to start cleaning everything up.
Now for the long and tedious part. Hand sanding. It will get a progression of paper starting at 600 grit and going up no less than 8000 grit possibly higher before I start the buffing compound work.
Stay tuned. More to come