A little help please.

I've got two family heirlooms I'd like to have restored. BUT, I can't spend a few hundred dollars sending them to a professional. Can someone recommend a good, reasonably priced place to send these to or can someone here restore them for me for a fair price?

One of the two has a fair amount of surface rust but otherwise is in good shape and the other I think just needs a good buffing but has a minor chip in the blade. they'd both need new scales.

Thanks so much for the help. I posted this over at Badger and Blade with no responses so thank you in advance.

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Member Services - Straight Razor Place Classifieds

There are some of the best there and while project prices will vary I am quite sure you can find someone well within your price range and get the results your hoping for.

Should be someone can help in Member services.
You could also post a "Want to Buy" notice in the Classifieds .

Just a reminder. No kinds of valuations, or talk re $$$'s permitted on the forums guys. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by AJameson

... I can't spend a few hundred dollars sending them to a professional. Can someone recommend a good, reasonably priced place to send these to or can someone here restore them for me for a fair price? ...

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I'm sure any professionals that read this will take offense. I believe most professional restorers charge a fair price. I guess it really depends on what you consider fair. from your description and w/o photos it sounds like your razors will require a bunch of time to get in order. How much is your time worth? How much of an investment in tooling will a restorer need and how much training/experience? These are rhetorical questions so please don't answer them but do give it some thought and reconsider fair. As in most of life, you will get what you pay for.

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Originally Posted by AJameson

I've got two family heirlooms I'd like to have restored. BUT, I can't spend a few hundred dollars sending them to a professional. Can someone recommend a good, reasonably priced place to send these to or can someone here restore them for me for a fair price?

One of the two has a fair amount of surface rust but otherwise is in good shape and the other I think just needs a good buffing but has a minor chip in the blade. they'd both need new scales.

Thanks so much for the help. I posted this over at Badger and Blade with no responses so thank you in advance.

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If a couple of images were available some of the vast member knowledge base might be able to offer tips on restoring these 'priceless' razors - yourself.

I have an 'heirloom' Larkin from my Grandfather - an absolutely unremarkable implement - that I would never even consider restoring further than the Mother's and hone job I gave it before I tossed it into my regular rotation. It's well used, but has turned out to be my favorite shaver. It's scales are chipped in a few places, but nothing that would make me want to change it in any way. It's petina only further enhances it's charm.

I would also never consider losing it in the mail. Even if it didn't shave... it's priceless... to me.

Here are my Heirlooms... all but the new puck of William's in the 'vintage' tea cup are Dad's and Grand-Dad's. As a child I watched with great interest as my Dad squirted copious volumes of Barbasol into that brush.... whew!... anyway.... LOL!

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I struck the tang pin a couple of times with the back of a heavy stainless spoon a while back to tighten it up a bit and it's regular, albeit infrequent visitations to the hone, with much more frequent applications to the strop and the face insure it's place in my history as well as the history of a family member who has gone before me.

I have restored a rather nasty razor documented here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...thin-lose.html and I have to tell you, it wasn't that bad. It's was kinda fun actually.

If you ever built a tree-house or a coast cart, or fixed your bike as a kid... restoring a razor is a piece of cake...

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