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We get many questions here on SRP about restorations. Can you give us a guess as to how much time in work was out into this project? Would you have paid to have this work done? What was the grind on the razor before you started?
Joed:Well, back when all I had was a treadle, I did spend a fair amount of time fiddling with it. I'd bet I spent a few hours at that alone. A fair guess would be 10-15 hours total working time. But it's really not done from the viewpoint of a paid restorer. I don't think this would be acceptable if someone were to pay for the work to be done. And I'd have made the finish even, but I wasn't sure it would hold an edge for long. Which brings us to the grind. It was a hollow ground blade when I started, and still is. Takes a fair amount of finesse to pull it off, but being on a treadle instead of a 3750 rpm grinder does make it less likely to eat the blade in a split second.