Thread: J.Gibbins & Sons

Hi, does anyone know why it is so hard to find out any information on the Cutlery Company J.Gibbins & Sons of Sheffield and their razors?!

Here is one i restored recently..

Awww thank you my friend, big help could hardly find anything on Google or any similar items as I tried to to work out the age and general quality of an old straight Razor I found amongst my Granddads belongings about 15 years ago... It is unlikely to ever be used by myself at least so wasn’t going to sharpen it for shaving use but it still feels very sharp, any tips to help clean it up without damaging it would be most welcome?!

The depth of knowledge assembled on this site is awesome.

Welcome to SRP. Glad you have an heirloom from your grandfather. There is a lot of information in the "what are you working on," thread. Don't know if you are new to straight shaving but it's a great thing to have an heirloom to use. Check out the, "let's see your heirloom," thread.
As for your question, it doesn't look too bad now from what I can see. If you are new to all this I wouldn't try to do major restoration yourself. There is more to it than one would think and it would be a shame to say, " DAMN! Why did I do that?" However, a rag with some metal polish like 3M Marine Metal Polish will go a long way to shining that bad boy up. It all depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want to display it then shine it up with polish and admire it. If you want to shave with it you may want to send it off to someone proficient in restoration. There are several people here who do outstanding work at that. If you want to do that say so in this post and someone will likely chime in or PM you.
Good luck to you and enjoy the forum.

I think the edge is a bit torn up, unless its a trick of the light? That would need proper edge restoration..

The minimum you can do use metal polish on the blade as paul said and then followed by a dose of oil. Cotton buds with oil to lube and clean the pivot area...
Thanks

Hi mate don’t clean shave that often anymore so was more thinking of just shining it up and finding out a bit of information about it for the family display cabinet. So no need to pay for it to be professionally sharpened which looks like it has been but even that was I’m guessing a good 40 odd years ago.