Thread: How would you fix this sort of crack?

Hey,

Am ill at home and got myself a cheap razor to restore from the bay. Unfortunately the description was incorrect and there is a crack in the blade.. I'm left with two days of nothing but watching TV, so I'd prefer bringing this one back to life. It supposed to belong to the seller's (early 40 years old) grandfather, and the man certainly took care of it because it has almost no serious rust.

The plan was to take a couple of hours to handsand this baby back to life, but now I find myself needing to take out the crack as well.

Does anyone know an efficient and effective way of taking out that much steel? Last time I had to do this, it was a frown and I honed it out breadknifing on sandpaper. I don't have any expensive tools besides my coticule and BBW but I obviously do not breadknife on them.

I could also ignore the crack... but I'm not sure if that's the smart thing to do. Then again, is it smart to take out THAT much steel?

While I'm off to the pharmacy to get my prescription and the hardware store to get sanding paper, please give me some feedback so I can get started on this asap :-)

Oh the marks of the tape on the spine are mine.

Also, as it is not mentioned in the wiki, is there a way to hand polish the blade at the very end, without using a wheel (I have no powertools at the moment, maybe next christmas...).

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