Thread: what to do?

hey everyone,

recently i received a razor sent by with other i purchased. it's over honed. i don't know what to do, neither throw it. have any idea?

Send some pics, need to know how badly it's been honed.

Originally Posted by outback

Send some pics, need to know how badly it's been honed.

just send. it's a john barber

too bad but it looks like a good candidate for a knife or a letter opener, just glue it in a fancy piece of antler or wood. JMHO

Would make a nice letter opener, or paper weight. JMO

My vote is for letter opener.

Pete <:-}

I'd clean it up & put a set of wood scales on it. I'm not convinced that it is over-honed by looking at the proportions of the tang, shoulder and blade. maybe it was made that way.

I could be completely wrong, as I know little about the styles of that era.

Clean it,,,,Scale it & Hone it !

Pin and epoxy a pair of scales/handle on it and make it into a scraper, for horn scale making. Hone the edge flat and roll it with a burnisher or hard round piece of steel. Or just touch the edge to a belt sander.

Scaping is easier, faster and cleaner than sanding. With a little practice, you can knock out a pair of scales with just a little bit of finish sanding.

You can make a nice scraper from an old razor, steak knife, piece of saw blade, a good hard putty knife or a cutoff, cabinet card scraper.

Maybe over honed, but also looks like it could be very old, and hence, not over honed necessarily.

Could you get a shot of the tang stamp?

It is for sure a Stubtail razor therefore close to 200 years old, so before turning it into a letter opener why not make it to shave.