Thread: Cleaned Up My Otto Deutsch Hans With My Dremel & Mothers Chrome Polish

Originally Posted by cubancigar2000

Buffing is simple if you keep the wheel turning away from any edge. Never have it turning towards an edge - that said a dremel can be a good thing but can also be a bad thing

I can't stress that enough! It is very easy to damage a blade if you don't watch what you're doing. I don't recommend Dremel for an inexperienced user.

Originally Posted by Steel

Very nice! Surprising how brand new some of these old razors can look.

It is surprising when you see the before & after photo's of ones work!
Thank you steel.

Aside from the possibility of busting a hunk out of the edge, there is the difficulty of uniformity in the polishing. I've seen Dremel finished razors where you can see the unevenness if you hold the blade sideways to the light. Looks like you did a nice job on that Hans, but for anyone doing their first polishing with a Dremel I'd recommend starting with a blade that isn't valuable,or important to you. Once you get the hang of it go for whatever you feel you have adequate skills to tackle.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Aside from the possibility of busting a hunk out of the edge, there is the difficulty of uniformity in the polishing. I've seen Dremel finished razors where you can see the unevenness if you hold the blade sideways to the light. Looks like you did a nice job on that Hans, but for anyone doing their first polishing with a Dremel I'd recommend starting with a blade that isn't valuable,or important to you. Once you get the hang of it go for whatever you feel you have adequate skills to tackle.

Jimmy, good point & I agree with you. It would be a good idea for one to practice with a junker first before moving on to a nicer straight! I've had experienced with the unevenness you mentioned & sometimes when polishing there might still be some dull spots from going too fast over the blade. The life of one of those polishing wheels lasts about one per blade but sometimes you need to start with another one. It also depends on the size of the blade. If the unevenness is noticable, just go over the blade again & it should be ok. This Boker Imperial was so tarnished & I couldn't polish it by hand like some blades can be with some luck. It also had a broken scale & I had some more so I removed the blade & polished it, then put the other scales back on it. It came out gorgeous.
Thanks for the tip Jimmy.

Excellent lesson and beautiful results. Thank you.

Originally Posted by lz6

Excellent lesson and beautiful results. Thank you.

Thanks lz6!

Excellent!
That turned out very nice.

Originally Posted by Chevhead

Excellent!
That turned out very nice.

Thanks Chevhead
I was just trying to show people that an experienced Dremel user can do this if they try but like Jimmy said, it is good for someone to practice with a junker first. I always have excellent results with one so far & I've polished may blades with one.

My thinking is that people tend to rush through things. Zero patience for most anything today.

Fast and Easy is what they want. This gets them in TROUBLE! It's pretty easy to tell that you HAVE PATIENCE because this came out NICE!

This is NOT the first one you have done, I would guess....you learned what to do and what not to do by practicing on many a junker blade I would also guess.

With enough patience, A SLOW SPEED and COMMON SENSE I am sure people could do this too. Unfortunately most seem to lack these qualities nowadays.

Nice work! The best is done slowly and correctly. Lots of work! I was going to say the scales were green. Just waited to see.
So I slather those puppies with 3m wet silicone and let it set. Wipe off. Store with blade up. Tufglide on the blade. Seems to work.