Today I brought back to life a James Johnson Sheffield Wedge. Sorry no pics, yeah I know it didn't happen if there's no pics. Originally was going to replace the scales but they turned out to be ebony scales so I sanded and oiled them up. Knocked off a lot of rust and grime from the blade. I stopped short of removing the pitting as I just don't think it's required. I set the edge with a DMT 325 then moved over to the Shapton 1K, Took longer than I expected to get the edge set but the smile on the blade probably had something to do with that. From the 1k, moved on up to 4k, 8k then a coticule then 6 strokes on a Shapton 16k and finally 6 passes on a leather strop. Needless to say I'm excited to see what it feels like, first a wedge straight razor is something new to me and then the coticule edge is also new. Anyone else look forward to the morning alarm just so they can shave and test their work out?

Steve