Thread: ebay special salvageable?

Hi all,
I was feeling adventurous recently and purchased my first ebay special. It looked pretty good to me. However, about a day after winning, I noticed a nick in the edge (doh!). I just wanted to get an opinion as to how possible and/or expensive restoration would be (I mean sending it to some one - I am too new at honing to attempt at this point). The seller offers money back return, and the listing was sparse, but didn't mention the nick and said "The razor is in excellent condition." Therefore, I wouldn't feel too guilty about taking them up on the return if I have to (though this is a pain). Anyway, here is a quick pic for your judgement. Let me know what you think.

It would take some work and you are going to lose some metal but it can be honed out.

Okay, fair enough. I then think of two questions for people that have had this kind of thing done for a razor: 1) Any kind of estimate about how much it will cost me (above and beyond a normal honing)? 2) How will this affect how well the razor shaves?

As I said, I'm pretty new and don't have any experience with this type of situation.

Go to the classifieds and click onto member services and there you will find the honers and restoration specialists.

I got a similar thing.. only the chip wasnt there on the photo.. I guess it was about the same size as yours (only the razor is a bit bigger)

I'm not all that experienced at honing but I've got a DMT D6C/F combo and a DMT D6E..
It took me about an hour and a half to hone it out.. the razor has lost about a mm of its width but is still a nice 6/8..

your razor looks nice enough to give it a shot.. if you want to start learning how to hone this is a nice razor to try it on.. hone the chip out and send it off to a honemeister to make it shaveready...

Maarten

Other than the chip its a nice razor. Certainly it can be honed out with some aggressive hones and aggressive honing and it should shave as good as new.However if you have no experience at this don't use this razor as a practice project.Its not basic honing.

Well..... you are probably right.. I happened to have the stuff to get rid of the chip and I did hone some of my razors already.. but I did find that removing the chip was a hell of a lot easier than honing a razor to shavereadyness....

But I started the wrong way with honing anyway.. didnt break in the DMT and started honing on a wedge...I learned it the hard way that honing isnt that easy... (it is a lot of fun though)

Maarten