Thread: Vintage look

I bought this old Greaves the other day at a flea market. Cheap. If the "patina" had been better distributed, I would have left it alone, but it just looked like a stripe of crap.

I think the Patina bell curve starts or ends with me I really love a natural splotchy often pitted patina. The above razor would only need wiped down and honed for me to love it

Originally Posted by vthomlinson

but i love a nice patina on my clothes and other items... i have a pair of ray ban wayfarers that i've had for about 6 years that has really developed some nice wear.. they look as if they have character and have seen some times.. not like everyone else in los angeles with their shiny new pair.. they just look like they saw katy perry wearing a set and ran out and got some.. i also love the worn look and frayed edges on my denim jacket and my doc martins.. i feel classy wearing older clothes.

Ditto, I'm still wearing the same sunglasses I got 10 years ago, most of my clothing is 10+ years old, most ALOT older... I was just in the bicycle shop looking at new gear for a touring bike and was more interested in the vintage bike being repaired than all the new tech bikes on the floor... Ya I'm hopeless

See I can't stand the thought of old rusty steel on my face, hence why I started restoring blades in the first place...

Even one ugly water spot!!! I hate it, I want bright shiny steel, dont really like mirror but many do...Give me a bright high gloss satin and I am in heaven...
Old cruddy scales drive me nuts too, how you can leave those little bug bites in horn and still use the razor is beyond my comprehension...

Personal preference I guess but to me I see pits under all that, and to me pits are BADDDDDDDD...


To each their own, but I like to see the razor in as new a condition as possible, I personally LOVE facorty NOS condition myself, I think those are the perfect razors...in fact I would say the bulk of my personal razors are as close to NOS as I can get them....

Now I bet my bottom dollar that the first thought that comes to mind is "Well of course Glen thinks that way, he restores razors"
BUT
It is actually the other way around, "I restore razors because, I think that way"


PS: Stimpy in my eyes I see your Greaves buffed out to a high sheen satin,taking all those BAD pits out too... and the scales restored to the high gloss they were when they left the factory IF they are solid and straight hehehe

I like a nice patina, but I also like a nice shiny blade. Well, I guess I like all of them to be perfectly honest. I actually intentionally put patina on a blade tonight for an effect (that's why your thread caught my interest).

Put me down for a vote on both sides