Thread: Museum style resto

Well, I just shaved with the razor, and it worked really really well. Very smooth and easy. To say I'm pleased, especially after the trouble I had honing it, would be an understatement. The coolest part was, while I was shaving away I thought to myself about the last time this razor was used. Probably, what? 180? 190 years ago? There's not much wear on it, other than age. From an Australian perspective that is almost convict times. It is well before the American Civil War. And with a bit of elbow grease it still works like it should, and I did not have to replace a thing. It gets my imagination going, that's for sure.

I probably won't use it all the time. I have too many razors for that. But it is nice to know that if I wanted to I could, and it shaves just as well as a brand new razor after almost two centuries.

From the title I expected even less of a clean up but then you might have been scared to shave with it
Looks much cleaner than the couple of old JNO Baker Bengalls they have/had at the Powerhouse museum in Sydney

They have W Jno Bakers on display at the Powerhouse? Cool. My first shorty was 2/3 of one of them, after a Dremel "incident".

They did . I don't know if they still have them there. There's been one or two posted as restores. Always looked better than the museum ones to me hehe.