Thread: Small crack in blade edge. Fix it?

Originally Posted by Alethephant

You can see a little straight spot on the rounded edge where I ground off the crack. This shortened the blade edge slightly.

Thanks for the support. It really saddened me to do this to an otherwise mint blade.

Nice work. Don't get too hung up on spoiling a 'mint' blade. After a year or so in the rotation it won't, by definition, be 'mint' anyway and it sounds like you have a keeper.

You did a really nice job though. It still looks nice. You can only tell because you did it..It's like building your own furniture...You notice the flaws no one else sees.

thats a shame , I gotta wedge with a 1/4 inch hairline in the same place , yes extremly hard to see with the naked eye I noticed it glassing the edge while honing , yep ebay special ...hehe ! but I dont blame the seller as it was virtually impossible to see just a bay gamble ya gotta take . And you done an awesome job on the repair an should be proud its a very nice razor weldone

I agree with the other guys, if you hadn't disclosed the broken toe, I wouldn't have known it with the "finished" pictures. Great save and good job!