Thread: Local Find

By soaking the scales in peroxide for several days, or more. That will bleach out the scales, then let them soak up some mineral oil ( I used baby oil ). This keeps them from becoming brittle.

Missed the last few posts. Thanks for the info and tips.

Nice haul, they are both loaded with potential. Please follow up with photos, when they are completed

I'm not able to spend much time on razors, but I will definitely post more pictures if I clean them up any.
If one of them is French that would be cool since I haven't owned any French razors before.

Yup, Ivory one lead, one ivory wedge. Unpin for proper cleaning of the scales and blade.

Or leave pinned, clean with WD40 and 000 steel wool. Sand the blade with 600 wet and dry and polish with000 steel wool and any good metal polish.

Scales can be lightly sanded with 600 wet and dry to remove most of the etching, then bleached and rehydrated and polished with a good metal or plastic polish, Novus works well.

I would not soak a pinned razor in peroxide, but mineral oil is ok. You can spot bleach with a Qtip and do one side at a time. But I like the look of aged ivory. If you sand you may need to spot bleach to get the color to match. Go lightly if you sand and use a backer, rubber eraser.

Nice grinds, nice find, Enjoy.

Originally Posted by RezDog

I like the personalized scales.
Nice find.

+1 on the personalised scales! Maybe a new thread is in order, just razors with incised customisations.