Thread: [B]Most worn out razors[/B]

Well this is a thread about razors honed to death.
When I purchase razors for restauration I mostly buy a batch of razors – which are often in very different conditions. From NOS to worn out to „not alive any more“.
I always asked myself what to do with straights of the last category. Use the scales if they are ok and throw away the razor? But most of the time I can't bring myself to do that, especially if the razor is a well known brand or seldom. In most cases they went into a box, and I look at them whenever I add a new candidates to the box.
But all of these razor have their own special beauty. And they had a hard and full live, thousands of shaves, thousands of honing sessions.
Of course the honing had been done wrong in most cases with unequal wear. But somehow also these are something special.
So here is the show of the old ugly ducklings:



A lot of razors that came from the japanese vintage razor market are especially honed out towards the toe. So the width oft he razors finally gets maybe half a the tip compared tot he nearly original width at the stabilizer.




On some, somebody tried a regrind………




By the way – when I took the photograph and looked at the tormented natures, I realized that I never really tried to hone them and shave with them. Had too much better alternatives.
Ok some of them have a frown honing line - like that Henckels.



Look more like scythes. Would be hard to shave with that.
But others have a (nearly) straight edge and are still sharp enough, the edge without cracks and nicks.



I think I will try this Bismark for shaving. Was a beauty when it once born, full hollow bellied grind, worked spine, nice scales. Now the honing lines is going from the nearly original edge near the stabilizer alltrough the part of the blade that once formed the (perfect) belly into the beginnig of the hollow on the toe. Only a very slight frown in the blade.
Don’t think I need to use tape to preserve the spine in this case….



Would be a pleasure to shave with it (hopefully!).

I will report….

Regards Peter