Thread: Regrinding Blues

In three photos I hope to show the progression of a $38.00 razor, originally a 8/8 W&B FBU. It was reground when I bought it, had massive honewear and some bug bites on the horn. Still I felt an obligation, probably like many of us, to own a chopper and this one was within my pay grade. The 2nd pic will show the razor after I cleaned it up a bit. Some members were helpful in offering their views on dealing with the problems of the blade and several members were against removing metal preferring to do complex honing techniques to make the blade shave ready. The problem for me is I am in the cult of the small bevels. I knew I could have put a shaving edge on the razor but to my eyes it would have been unacceptable because of the bevel thing. If the razor would have been original (without some regrinding long ago) I would have not sent it out to a professional in order to get the look I wanted for the razor. Nathan Zowada did an amazing job on the blade and it is a fine shaver. Still, the whole experience has made me decide to stay away from any razor that has been reground, ever. I started the clock again on this razor just as someone might have done 100 years, ago but I am not without some regret at altering the history of this blade.