Thread: Roasted Duck

Originally Posted by zib

Just curious, it's not the original goldwash is it, or does look like that bluish heated metal color? In any case, I got burned on Ebay. The items stated "AS IS", NO RETURNS. I still got my money back. You can dispute it. Even after I told the seller I'd give them negative feedback, she still wouldn't budge. Paypal and Ebay are good that way. I stated that is was unusable, which it was. Mine had a nice size rust spot on the sharp edge of the blade, so bad that if it was cleaned off, I'd have to breadknife in a huge way. The description stated that the blade had minor rust and was in "Great Condition"...Good luck to you...

What Zib said, if you paid with Paypal file a dispute and then escalate it to a claim. They tend to side with buyers IME.

Originally Posted by PapaBull

An attempt to heat treat the blade again would probably do it in but it's already shot. If it was mine, I'd try to heat treat it and temper it again. I wouldn't get my hopes up, but I have been able to successfully apply new heat treats to old blades before. it's just a low percentage operation and the ducks tend to have a very thin blade that makes it that much more risky. Wedges are the most likely to be successfully heat treated again and extra hollow ground razors the least likely to make it through the heat treatment process.

With a very slow and very even heating to critical temperature and a gentle interrupted oil quench it might have a chance but the odds are stacked against you.

I think the critical thing here is to heat it slowly and gently, bringing it up to temperature, and maybe taking it a bit easy on the quenching, maybe a bit hotter oil than normal or something. Better to have a slightly tempered razor that shaves but requires more honing than a completely shot razor...