Frown removal/repair

[Birnando]

So today i decided to have a go at a razor I have been dreading to hone for the last 6 months.
It was a full hollow blade 15/16" wide, that had a serious frown 2/3 out towards the tip.

Further more it had quite uneven honewear and the frown seemed like it was dented on one of the sides. In other words, on one side the bevel looked pretty even, the other seemed to sort of miss material to hone.

I have been honing a lot lately, I must have honed a couple hundred razors these last few months, but this one scared me. I didn't know quite how to attack this.

In preparing for this job, I spent many hours reading and watching videos of the pro's honing on various problem razors.
Gssixgun and the others who have posted their videos deserves a big thank you!
They sure were helpful to me when doing this job.

So here is what I did.

First I decided to get rid of the uneven honewear.
I used quite some pressure, focusing on the parts that had the least wear. This also meant honing more on one side than the other.
The Chosera 600 is a pretty fast worker, but I did spend quite some time on this to get it done.
Much more time than what I would have guessed before starting out with this beat-up razor.

Next, I taped the spine and went to work on the frown.
That meant more metal removal, and metal removal at the right places and the right side.
Again I used the Chosera 600.
It was challenging to do this correctly, using uneven and quite heavy pressure was unfamiliar territory.
Well, after a good while, the frown kept getting smaller and smaller, and the hard work was soon done.

I think I spent well over an hour and a half on these 2 steps. I would have thought there would be no steel left, but to my surprise, the razor has lost only about 1,5-2,5mm in total width on this rather heavy job. I took it from about 23,3 to about 21,5mm.

After that is was easy going.
Set the bevel, sharpened and polished it up before going to my favorite finisher.
All this was done with one layer of tape, as this razor has seen enough of hone wear!

Sadly, I had already shaved today, but I had to take it for a spin anyway, and it felt just like new.

I actually feel a bit proud right now, I have managed to rescue a beat up POS, and made that into a fine shaving instrument once again.
Honing a well kept and pretty much new razor is one thing, a problem razor is a whole new set of challenges.

Anyway, I just felt like sharing