Thread: Flea market finds

Restored one; two awaiting work. Shaved with the mottled scaled one this AM.

Excellent finds! Love hearing about flea market finds! It spikes my RAD like you wouldn't believe, mostly because of the prices compared to EBay. How was you shave with the mottled blade? Can you read the make on the shank?

The Red Point and Spike look awesome too!

Please keep us apprised of your future finds!

On shank it reads "Smooth Cutter Warranted by G & O Sheffield"

The shave was only fair. I attribute that to my inexperience. I've successfully honed a fair number of clean blades (ok, no challange there I guess). Here, I had to remove some stubborn chips. After lengthy honing at 1k with little progress, I dropped down to the 220 Norton. At this point, I went to some old threads on this site and read about "bread kniffing" and the pros and cons. Rather than get radical, I taped the spine figuring I'd save it from all the metal removal I anticipated. Now here was my dilemna: remove the tape for final bevel set and polishing. I did so, and tried to get enough passes to end with a good bevel...not sure it was the right thing to have done. So when I return to the stones tonight, do I use tape or hone away without? A simpler question might be...best way to remove small/medium chips (the kind you miss at the flea market but are apparent to nekid eye when you get home)?

Thanks. J

Originally Posted by jleeg

On shank it reads "Smooth Cutter Warranted by G & O Sheffield"

The shave was only fair. I attribute that to my inexperience. I've successfully honed a fair number of clean blades (ok, no challange there I guess). Here, I had to remove some stubborn chips. After lengthy honing at 1k with little progress, I dropped down to the 220 Norton. At this point, I went to some old threads on this site and read about "bread kniffing" and the pros and cons. Rather than get radical, I taped the spine figuring I'd save it from all the metal removal I anticipated. Now here was my dilemna: remove the tape for final bevel set and polishing. I did so, and tried to get enough passes to end with a good bevel...not sure it was the right thing to have done. So when I return to the stones tonight, do I use tape or hone away without? A simpler question might be...best way to remove small/medium chips (the kind you miss at the flea market but are apparent to nekid eye when you get home)?

Thanks. J

If you tape the spine leave the tape on for all honing and polishing or you will be working (honing and polishing) away from the edge. Remove the tape before stropping.

Other option is to set bevel w/ tape, remove tape and reset bevel again. This second setting of the bevel is just to bring the angle w/o tape to the edge again, and just past or you will still be polishing away from the edge.

Good luck!

Jleeg

Nice score!

You'll love that Spike; they're really excellent razors.


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