Thread: Joe . C Restored Fredrick Reynolds

Well i sent a Fredrick Reynolds blade to Joe Chandler for restoration because i was getting no wear hand sanding all the pitting marks out and im blown away, He's amazing!
Before and after pics

You have to be happy with that !!

Certainly an attractive alternative to hours and hours of hand sanding...

Greg Frazer

Absolutely incredible!

Nice work.

Normally i dont mind the time and work to restore a blade, but this blade was so hard i wasn't making a dent in the pitting. So i decided to send it out. I couldnt be happier!

Eric,

Great looking blade!


-Brian

It's a lot of fun hand sanding a blade down from a really horrible pitted wreck to a beautiful blade with nice clean steel and a fine finish. It's a real wonder and a fascinating journey. Yes, it's really fun.... the first time. If you have a lot of patience. And a lot of elbow grease. But it gets a lot less fun on subsequent blades. Nice job, Joe. Money well spent, in my opinion.

+1, Robert.

It's fun to do it once, maybe twice, or sometimes for a really special razor - but it gets old pretty quickly

By the way (and this is a question for all steel experts) - does regrinding affect the temper?

Cheers
Ivo

perfect

X

Originally Posted by izlat

By the way (and this is a question for all steel experts) - does regrinding affect the temper?

Cheers
Ivo

As long as you don't get it too hot, the temper won't be affected. Therein lies the trick to regrinding (or grinding the first time, for that matter). I grind (and regrind) all mine free (and bare) handed. If it gets too hot to hold, it's too hot. I keep a big bucket of water on hand, and run the grinder at about 20% max. speed. Takes a while, but I haven't burned one yet. (At least one that didn't belong to me. )

P.S. Glad you liked it, Eric. Been dealing with some health problems lately, which was the reason for the slowosity.

Ivo,

Per what Joe said, if you can touch it, you're safe. The key is not to exceed the tempering or drawing temperature. I don't know what this is for razors, but a very hard, brittle temper for knives is about 350 degrees F. or a straw color on the oxides which develop on the steel. When working on the blade you don't want to see blue. Blue is about 700 degrees and spring temper. Good for the stuff that goes up and down, up and down..., but bad for the stuff that goes shave.

Bruce