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Ok, I spent a few more hours sanding and polishing last night and here's what I came up with. The razor was rougher than I thought. Don't forget this was my first try. It did take an edge very well, I will try to shave with it tonight. I sanded with several different grits and then used this polish called MET-ALL POLISH, it worked great.

That looks nice! You put a nice shine on that blade, and I'm a sucker for tortoise-shell scales.

What grit sandpaper did you go down to?

Let us know how she shaves!

I started with 180, 240, 320 and 600 thats all that I have on hand. The polish that I used really brought out the shine though. There were some really deep scratches and pitting that I couldn't get out, it looks likes someone before me did some work.

Looks great! Too bad there are no before pictures. Where do you get MET-ALL POLISH?

If you check my first post you will see an Ebay link' here are the pics from that. The polish I had from working int the aircraft industry, I'm sure if you do a google search you will find it. I had this polish kicking around for some time and I never new it would work so well ona razor. i have the 16oz. can and that will be more than enough for a lifetime or two.

A great effort - pity the blade engraving suffered but with the amount of rust to come off it was hardly surprising. The only bit I thought might be a 'killer' was that area on the front side at the edge - I have seen so many where the edge just crumbles and takes a good depth of blade with it! Yours seems to have survived that though pitting is evident. If it's not going to be a showpiece I wouldn't worry too much - removing the pitting there totally may well peforate the blade and that's not good! I think you have done very well, first razor or not. Now get an edge on it and attack the stubble!

No its not going to be a show piece and for the price that I paid I figured it would be a good piece to practice on. I have three other razors a newer Dovo 5/8 with the tortoise scales, Gotta 120 6/8 and a Henckels 401 platinmum. The Dovo I bought new and I really don't like the shave it gives. It was my first razor. The Gotta was the second razor I bought just recently and I am much happier with the shave it gives, I seem to like the English steel and bigger blade. The Henckels is not shave ready yet, I might send that one out for some blade repair. Now I have this Reynolds and I'm about to go upstairs and give it a try.