Thread: Razor issue -

Yikes - and it was sanded horizontally as opposed to vertically....Tom and Rez are correct, lots of work to repair that bevel.

Think some slight breadknifing might be in order, get past the junk to some good steel?

I'm concerned that the whole thing is riddled with these fissures, and as soon as you get past one, you will be into another. It may not be possible to get to 'good steel'. I may shelve it, in the hope that I will get the chance for a more experienced eye to look at it. OR come back when my eye is more experienced!

Originally Posted by Phrank

Yikes - and it was sanded horizontally as opposed to vertically

What does that mean Phrank?

Originally Posted by Montgomery

What does that mean Phrank?

Looks like the sanding pattern goes along the length of the razor, as opposed to up and down, from spine to edge rather than what looks like to me from heel to toe.

Ah! That could have been the seller trying to tidy it up a bit before selling it.

Now were getting somewhere, you just bought it..
Haven't done any sanding.

Probably past owners doing, may also have ran it off the end of a hone a few times or a belt sander, who knows.

My guess would be a Dremel tool with a wire wheel created those vertical marks, including the hit to the bevel. After messing that up, sandpaper was used from heel to toe to remove the wire brush marks.

To make it shaveable again you will need to breadknife/hone past the chip, plus a bit more to get past any remaining crack.
To make it look new, it will take a lot of proper sanding to get past the vertical marks outs.

Originally Posted by outback

Now were getting somewhere, you just bought it..
Haven't done any sanding.

Probably past owners doing, may also have ran it off the end of a hone a few times or a belt sander, who knows.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Yikes - and it was sanded horizontally as opposed to vertically....

Guys, remember we are looking at the blade under magnification here. The spot on the paper by the blade in this picture is a point from a ballpoint pen, less than 1mm across.



Without magnification, the blade looks polished, and I guess the longitudinal striations probably came from polishing not sanding. The mark in the following picture is about 0.6-0.7mm long, without magnification it just looks like a bit of dust on the blade.



Those diagonal scratches running to the bevel do look like someone has had a quick go on this blade with a pretty coarse stone. It is obviously an amateur attempt, and luckily, they gave up very quickly, because there was no corresponding wear on the spine.

Without looking really closely, this razor looks to be in pretty nice condition:

Originally Posted by RezDog

You will have to see if you can hone back past the effected metal on the bevel and near the apex.

This!

Pretty much the only way we're going to be able to tell something about the blade



I'd try honing it for a bit, and use a microscope or a good loupe to check the edge's progression very carefully
If it's not in the apex shaving part, there' shouldn't be a problem

(I don't have a microscope, but things like this make me wanna get one)


I'd hone it up and check it carefully, I'd probably hone it up til it's shave ready and do a test shave just in case, you might not notice anything wrong with it whilst shaving when all is said and done

Originally Posted by RezDog

You will have to see if you can hone back past the effected metal on the bevel and near the apex.

Originally Posted by TristanLudlow

This!

Pretty much the only way we're going to be able to tell something about the blade


I'd try honing it for a bit

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