Thread: Razor issue -

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: