Thread: Satinwedge worth professional restoration?

I tried to take some better picture of the duck and the J.A., so here they are. The spine on the duck is worse than i remember, but the J.A. is in pretty good shape overall.

Hit them with some polish and steel wool. It will take all the oxidation off but not touch and of the hard steel. It will make them last longer for sure and look a little nicer too. Then it is off to the hones. You could resurface the blade on those by sanding them. On those I would likely start with 1000 grit wet dry and WD-40, after steel wool.once you have any pitting removed you can go up in grit and and at 2K or 2500, which ever is the highest you can find, the polish it up with steel wool. It leaves a nice finish. The scales on the Henckels will clean up well with a little polish too.

Would Maas be the best to use for the blade and the scales. I used it on the blade of my first restoration and it came out pretty nice, although for a perfect finish I should have sanded it more with a higher grit

I don't know that it really matters which polish you use. I use mothers simply because it is the one that is easy for me to get. I think that any of them will work just fine.

Okay. I just wasn't sure about using it on the scales since it's technically a metal polish

There are plastic polishes out there that you can get. Many of the headlight polishing kits will give your scales a high gloss look. The metal polish will get some of the fine scratches out and shine them up nice.

I'll use the Maas since I already have some left over from my last project

I can tell you, from a shaving perspective, the Satin Wedge that I own gives one heck of a fine shave. Yours looks like it has great potential.
Good luck!

Pete <:-}

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

The Satin Wedge was produced specifically because folks asked them to make it seeing how there weren't any factory wedges being produced in any numbers. That model was predated by the special wedge which if I recall has a hammered neck on the razor.

I have two Special Wedges of Bresnick flavor. A Twin Duck and a Dubl Duck. Both smooth tang and looks like they may have had the black tang like the Special #1. The Hand Forged I have are all hammered tangs :<0)

Those look like original scales to me :<0)