The Drawer of Shame

Ok, I know everyone has them. That place where you put you razors you are ashamed of or the ones you worked on but just couldn't get to shave ready condition. I bet even Lynn has some. So you know, they say confession is good for the soul so the Monsignor Duke of Dukes is ready to give all of you absolution so everyone line up now one at a time, no shoving, and confess your razors of shame.

Ok I'll start, there was the Rogers I couldn't hone and sent to Bruno and he was able to hone (or so he says). Also the time I was polishing a Beau Brummel at the dinette table with a dremmel and my son walked into my arm and the dremmel slipped and I put a one inch chip in a beautiful razor.

Wow see what I mean? I feel wonderful now after confessing that.

Now its your turn and I won't even expect you to kneel and kiss my ring.

Only have one in the drawer at the moment. It was an ebite purchase that was in worse shape than expected. It will sit there till I feel I have the skills it takes to really tear into it...

A couple of Masters razors (as if one wasn't enough!) which I plan to chop vegetables with someday and an old Henry Hill which I plan to clean up and restore as soon as I get the tools.
Ernest

Ok, ok I confess I have a few. I have 2 ebay specials I bought without looking for hone wear. Then there is a cheap Chinese straight and a Pakistani straight razor. I bought them before I found this website. Ok, somebody else take their turn so I don't look so bad............lol.
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Del

Yep guilty as charged I have one Kamisori 150 and 1 Gold Bug from e-bay which despite my best efforts (and :cen choice of words ) refuses to give me a shave that does not feel like I am using barbed wire on my face and if no result is reached soon its off to e-bay for resale

I have 2.
One is a wedge - very old. It says sheffield on it, but no maker. The blade etching used to say 'the princes own' and the scales are bone. I have tried everything, it was the first razor I tried to hone, and I have got it close, but not close enough. Now it is just there to taunt me every couple of weeks.
The other is a german razor, Wadsworth I think, with imitation tortioseshell scales. I had high hopes for it at first, but I don't know if the steel is rubbish or if the spine is too worn, but I haven't got it slightly close to shaveable.

Nick

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Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Ok I'll start, there was the Rogers I couldn't hone and sent to Bruno and he was able to hone (or so he says).

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I'll have you know that that Rodgers is still my favorite shaver.
The frameback design makes the edge 'cleavery like a wedge' without giving it the weight of a wedge. And when I was finished with it, it was not smiling but grinning.
I have not touched it up once since then, and it is still HHT sharp after stropping.

But yes I have one as well.
An Otto Busch Solingen Weltmeister 11/16 full hollow.
It was my first razor, and I thought of selling it, but I won't since it was my first one and my wife (then gf) paid part of it.

No matter what I try (and I have tried a lot) I cannot get it to shave properly. sometimes I get close, but halfway through the shave it starts pulling something fierce again and I put it back in the box.

I suspect that the edge is too brittle for being a full hollow.
I think that the only chance for success is using the blue.
However, I always seem to have a number of other people's razors waiting to get honed, and then there are my own restoration projects...
So it will be in that box for some time.

I have a bunch of ebay specials floating around and for sure a few hidden somewhere. I have tried to hone as many as possible that would shave and gave a ton away over the years.

I always run into hard razors to hone, many of which I would love to throw in a drawer somewhere. Especially the ones that people have ground frowns into or have really uneven honing and grinding and ones ground down an eighth of an inch or more, or those where people have used sandpaper on them. Talk about ya never know when one will take an edge.

The fun part is always that you never know which razor is gonna be stubborn on you. I worked on a ground down SS Dovo every night for a month one time. I try not to do all the honing in one setting so I don't just wear a razor down out of frustration. I do a little each night, shave test and if not there, go at it the next night and so on.

Any body who thinks honing is an exact science, considering all the different feeling metals out there and all the varieties of honing that has been done to a razor and even the final grinding on some of the new ones and that every razor can be honed first time out is a way better man than me.

It's an addiction I tell ya......an addiction.......:rant:

Have fun,

Lynn

I have one on the way. I saw a nice looking Fox razor on ebay. I looked closely at the pictures and put in a modes bid that I figured wouldn't hold up. A few days later I actually took the time to read the description - there's a crack in the blade :gth

Lessons learned...

Jordan

I'll just say this:

THIS thread is USELESS without pictures!

And on that note, I show my drawer of shame:

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6828/photo2wx7.th.jpg
I should add that I do plan on getting to these sometime in the future...

I don't have a drawer but I got shame...
My Kamisori :cry: Shame, shame, shame....

well here are the ones that i will admit too.

mainly cracked blades and chips... some i did myself others i got suckered wit ha poor photo the one the top one in the ornate black scales is a waterville... don't get much uglier than that... the missing scales have gone to give new life to other blades... all but the waterville will loose its scales... i might have another go at making that a shaver.

In my drawer I have this, a mint cond. BRESDUCK DUBL DUCK STRAIGHT RAZOR SOLINGEN or at least thats what the ebay seller called it, guess you live and learn:)

I hate this razor so much. So many wasted hours. If they were billable hours, i could buy a mastro livi.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...bay-razor.html


http://images.needfulemporium.com/d/106-2/IMG_0235.JPG

http://images.needfulemporium.com/d/103-2/IMG_0236.JPG

I only have two....................cigar boxes, full of redhaired stepchild razors. :o
Some are salvageable, so I have plenty to do at night for the rest of my life.

I have three Genevas in the drawer. One takes an edge, but has a big chip in it. The other two...I gave up.

Also gave up on a Frederick Reynolds. I sent it to Lynn. He should be having fun with it. :P

I have my Dovo. My first razor, that unbeknownst to newbie me had some serious warpage of the blade. By the time I knew enough to discover it I had honed it, Dovo wouldn't take it back,and Classic Shaving could do nothing. So I work on it every now and then, and it's slowly getting closer to being "straight-bevel"-able. But I think that it, my dremel, and I might have a hot date coming up...

The other razors in my "working on" drawere are in various states of restoration, but working full time and still in school I don't have lots of time to work on them. However, all but the Dovo are progressing somewhat satisfactorily toward usability...

I'll post some pics after I get my camera this weekend...

Non yet, but does the fact that I can't strop a decent blade yet count? no matter what I do the blade rises off the strop.. and going fast for me is out of the question... unless I want a dull blade... maybe its the American made Latigo that's the problem, who knows.. but I'm not ever happy with my stropping... seen enough videos to last a lifetime... ugh... that's my shame... finally out in the open...God feels good..

I'm gonna sandpaper my strop today and see if thats it... would suck if I'm just retarded when it comes to stropping...lol

Cheers
D

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I hate this razor so much.

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Hahaha, I got a good laugh from this. There are just some razors that you love to hate!

I have one out on the bnech right now, I won't let it in the house. I think a Rodgers or other good sheffield name, but pics weren't quite clear enough. I put in about 15 buck bid, won. got here, lots of pitting, somebody tried sanding it, just a lot of work. not sure if I'll mess with it or sell it or chuck it.

Red

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Originally Posted by Big Red

I have one out on the bnech right now, I won't let it in the house. I think a Rodgers or other good sheffield name, but pics weren't quite clear enough. I put in about 15 buck bid, won. got here, lots of pitting, somebody tried sanding it, just a lot of work. not sure if I'll mess with it or sell it or chuck it.

Red

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If you decide to chuck it I'll take it off your hands. I could use a good practice restorer/challenge...

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Originally Posted by the wanderer

If you decide to chuck it I'll take it off your hands. I could use a good practice restorer/challenge...

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I've got two butchers, something else, and a boker that need some chopping done...:hmmm:

Now that I think about those, I've got a bunch of razors that I don't have the time or tools to save right now. My drawer is getting quite full...:gaah::w