My first restoration - T.R.Cadman Bengell

Hi guys,

I just wanted to share some photos of my first full restoration.
http://img.tapatalk.com/569e9ca0-0251-3b4b.jpg
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Looking forward to your comments.

Looks great, congrats and a job well done! How was the shave?

Thanks, shave was great, very smooth, great balance on the razor and the perfect weight for me.

Very nice work!

Bengalls are highly under rated razors, they take excellent edges and give great shaves. I let one go a while back and regreted it. Since then I have picked up two and will not let them get away from me.

Keep up the good work Ouiska............

Looks good to me. Did you have to take the whole razor apart?

Yea I had to remove the scales, they where sanded and polished along with the blade. I have some before photos somewhere, I'll see if I can dig them out.

Here's the before photos, it wasn't in bad shape but there was some light pitting and some quite deep scratches along the blade, tang and tail. There was also active rust around the pin and the scales where badly scuffed. Photos aren't the best.
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You may congratulate yourself on your first restore, excellent work, very well done.

Jamie.

Excellent restore. Very well done. The scales almost look blue in the MWF pose.

Stu

Very nice restoration for sure and wonderful to have original marked scales as well!!

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Originally Posted by Martin103

Very nice restoration for sure and wonderful to have original marked scales as well!!

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Thanks, the scales where the main buying point, have seen plenty of Bengalls' but never with marked scales and I'm always cautious of buying razors from eBay but figured £10 wouldn't break the bank.

Congrats on a well done first restauration, came out very nice :tu

Bravo! I love to see old Bengalls restored respectfully like yours has been. I am sure it will give you generations of shaving pleasure - you treat those Bengalls right, and they'll reciprocate.

James.

Very nice job. Hope I can do one as well soon.