Thread: My 3rd restore! Its kind of big!

I will echo all the kudos - that is one beautiful razor!

You did and excellent job on everything...look great.

Originally Posted by cvernon7

And this is it after I don't know how many hours of hand sanding.

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Could I ask what you are using for hand sanding? Wet & Dry? Micro-Mesh emery? And what progression of grits?

I've 7 vintage razors, needing varying levels of refurbishment...at the moment I haven't decided what I'm going to use, but your results on this razor are amazing, so would love to know what you used!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by KrytonsJaw

Could I ask what you are using for hand sanding? Wet & Dry? Micro-Mesh emery? And what progression of grits?

I've 7 vintage razors, needing varying levels of refurbishment...at the moment I haven't decided what I'm going to use, but your results on this razor are amazing, so would love to know what you used!

Thanks!

Thanks for everyones opinions I do appreciate them. And to krytonsjaw there are other ways that will be faster and less work than hand-sanding but for a broke college student(I mean me)I think this does a great job and is really cheap. Now I use Wet-Dry sand paper With WD-40. The lowest I go would be 320 grit. I started with 320 then moved to 400/600/1000/1500/2000. Now that is the grits I used on this razor but I have gone up to 3000 and 6000 micro mesh but I don't think that it makes that much of a difference. After the 2000 I used a dremel polishing kit to buff it. I think it makes a difference but the razor still looks great without having to do that.

If you want to learn some tricks about hand-sanding I would recomend you click on this link. Hand sanding a blade - Straight Razor Place Wiki

Now I sand with one grit across the length of the blade until all the pits are gone or till I'm satisfied. Then I go up to the next grit and I sand the width of the blade because I think it goes faster and it is easier to see if you got all of the of the scratches out from the previous grit. Getting all the scratches out is key to making it look great. After I get them out I repeat the process switching directions each time I go up in grit until I finish with 2000. Now at the end if you are going the width of the blade with 2000 I would recommend that after you get the scratches out you should go the length of the blade to finish. This is important because it makes the razor look a lot better.

Now after all that let me be the first to tell you hand-sanding is not very fun to do. I usually watch TV as I sand. But if you put in the time and effort you can have some awesome looking razors. Good Luck with your projects!!

I'm drooling over this razor.