Thread: Rough Adoration by Giesen & Forsthoff

My wife came home with a straight razor marked "Adoration", and is made by Giesen & Forsthoff. It is marked Solingen, Germany. Unfortunately, it is in very poor shape! Maybe, it will be good honing and restoration practice for me. The worst - miserable failure, while learning - is quite acceptable.

General honing instructions and videos are quite available. However, I am having trouble locating help for recovery of the truly ugly abused blades. So, in complete ignorance, I will tell you next how I intend to proceed in recovery. However, as Sergeant Schultz said, "I know nothing." Please straighten me out!

Using a very coarse stone, I will place the edge of the blade vertically against the stone (as if I am going to cut the stone in half.) I will remove metal in this position until the edge is even, aligned with the spine. (And, of course it will be VERY dull at this point since I have removed the cutting edge.)

The spine has been ground by a grinding wheel or something coarse, as you can see in the picture. So, next, I will work with the sides of the spine to obtain straight sides. My goal will be to true up the sides of the spine with the edge of the blade.

After that, using the instructional videos and information out there, I should be on more charted waters.

So, straighten edge, straighten spine, then sharpen? Thoughts appreciated.