Thread: antique store find

found a J R Torrey (Worscester Mass) in original box. Had a little rust, but cleaned up well. It is about 5/8 with round toe and black scales. Took about 7 laps on my barbers stone, about 40 laps on leather strop and tried it out. Shaves real smooth. I'm still learning with a 4/8 so this one feels a bit different.

I got it for $20. Did I do ok?

Originally Posted by 1sgtscot

I got it for $20. Did I do ok?

yeap - sounds like you did. 20 bucks for a good razor that required very little to make a shaver. Good deal in my book.

Grats on the pickup.

A picture is worth a thousand words

would love to see a picture of the razor

The razors _I_ buy for $20 need a heck of a lot more work than yours did. I haven't found one yet that only needed a barber hone and stropping.

I'd say you did fine.

Charles

The blade has a line of rust just where the scale touched the blade, but most of that came off with a simple cleaning. I don't know how to restore yet. And I bought this one to get started practicing. However, I just had to try it before I went further.

I am not sure how to post pictures yet. I have attached two here.

Thats awesome! I just had a bit of RAD, and been learning slowly how to restore simple things.

From my extremely untrained eye, you could just grab some 600 or 300 grit sand paper and some 1500, and just do it by hand, it does not take much just a lot of passes, and being ok with it taking a really long time, then polish it up with some metal polish.