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...).

Edit:

The pictures (wait 5 minutes so they're uploaded entirely):

Sorry for the huge size pics, but otherwise you can't really tell!

The first picture shows the crack quite clearly by the way, it's at the top right

Oh I've trashed one like that.
Gongs are very thin and easy to crack.

if your hart is attached to this razor, I'd carefully hone it,
use it and just wait for the chip to break out completely.
Since its ongoing vertically towards the spine,
there is little hope that there is any fix, ecxept amputation.

If you want to remove the crack as stated by Olivia, you need to regrind the razor.
I am dealing with similar situation and will go for it just for the eperience of it.

i got one like that and i had to eat it . it was a fine 40.00 dollar meal. or you can contac the seller and see adout geting your money back.

This ya hoo's been trying to sucker some poor sap into selling his gong for $350 buy it now, you might be able to still ekk out $150 for yours!
1920s STRAIGHT SHAVING RAZOR GONG SOLINGEN - eBay (item 250375355043 end time Nov-14-09 03:33:38 PST)

Originally Posted by mainaman

If you want to remove the crack as stated by Olivia, you need to regrind the razor.
I am dealing with similar situation and will go for it just for the eperience of it.

So I can't just hone the whole thing out? I'm treating it like a nick for the moment. A hot coffee and many hours breadknifing, wouldn't that take it out entirely? It's also just for the experience, but obviously I'd like to turn it into a shaver once again. I mean the blade is plenty wide compared to my other razors, this once could easily lose 0.5mm and still look decent..

Originally Posted by Jantjeuh

So I can't just hone the whole thing out? I'm treating it like a nick for the moment. A hot coffee and many hours breadknifing, wouldn't that take it out entirely? It's also just for the experience, but obviously I'd like to turn it into a shaver once again. I mean the blade is plenty wide compared to my other razors, this once could easily lose 0.5mm and still look decent..

You mean like hone until the crack is gone?
That will take forever and your razor will turn to 3/8 from 5/8(assuming yours is 5/8)
You can just trash it or cut it, I have no other ideas, may be some of the experienced restorers will give better advice.

Get your money back from seller or shorten the razor and make new scales.

I would go with option one.

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

Get your money back from seller or shorten the razor and make new scales.

I would go with option one.

+1 with this post.