Thread: Warped blade

So I had a once good shaver that went to crap over night been banging my head against the wall trying to hone it without any luck.. Tonight I watched a you tube video and was doing the corner tap thing and this thing has a warped blade bad. Like super bad. I think my room mate may have played with it and dropped it by just how bad it is. Its really just a cheep junk razor. But is there any special way to sharpen a warped wobbly blade or should I just use the scales on one of my other razors and trash this blade

Honestly they are more wonky razors then straight razors out there, and the older the razors are, the wonkier they tend to be..

Pics would help here, but I haven't ever tossed a razor for warpage

Yea, very few of my razors don't have warps/twists to the blades being vintage ones. They don't get that way from dropping them. Those blades can be frustrating to hone until you find a honing stroke that will work with them but they can be honed in the end.

Bob

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Honestly they are more wonky razors then straight razors out there, and the older the razors are, the wonkier they tend to be..

Pics would help here, but I haven't ever tossed a razor for warpage

Ditto all of that.

If one has a fine stone, and the razor has a warp in it so bad that part of the razor will never touch the stone, you can literally push the warp down with your finger on the stones, and if you can do a good job stropping, you'll still have a good razor.

I have only had to do that once, but I only hone my own razors. In my case, I saw a tanifuji razor for sale for what looked like half price, didn't read well enough and the end of the razor looked like someone put it on a piece of wood and just hammered the edge and bowed it out in one spot. The only way to get it to contact a stone without making it look like a watermelon bite is to literally push the bevel down with your finger and then hone it.

Shaves fine!

The rarity of the perfectly straight razor with a good grind is what makes them such a treat when you get one. It's maybe 1 in 3 that's that straight, and fewer than half of those have a high class grind.

I just went through this!! I have many razors that aren't perfectly straight but only a select few that have been so badly warped that I had issues with. After talking with a friend here on SRP I got it honed but it took every trick in the book. Heel forward (didn't even come close to getting the heel to touch) 1 layer of tape (seemed to help some but not near enough), a rolling X (had to exaggerate it), and finally honing in sections. Honing it in sections being careful not to create a frown or other problems was the key for me. Then I did a rolling X swooping kind of stroke to even it all out. I looked like I was dancing with all the movements it took but I finally got it. Good experience but next time I have one that far out of whack I'm just going to toss it in a drawer for when im feeling froggy. A little warp- no problem, a lot of warp-ok I can but not happily, and a lot of warp with a twist and a smile - I can but I'm not going to.

I have gotten a few that were bowed pretty bad. Usually they have a frown in them from people trying to hone them without rolling it. I put a smile into the blade so I can hone around the fact that it won't sit flat. I use straight strokes on the side that has the toe and heel touching the hone at the same time when lain flat. On the side that rocks on the hone I use a rolling x.

I hone away the metal at the toe and heel that prohibits the middle of the blade from touching the hone. There's probably a better less wasteful way but this is the only solution I have found without actually taking the warp out of the spine to correct the blade not being straight.

Much easier to hone around a bent spine then a bent blade, though I may have misinterpreted your post.

I would love to see gssixgun's take on this.