Double Duck and Hess owners, Be Aware

[Geezer]

This is cross posted
I was at a friend’s home and we were, what else, looking at razors. When he showed me one special razor, the one next to it had a patch of rust. A Double Duck Golden Edge. He had another DD, and it was starting to rust, scales and wedge trash..
The culprits in both cases were not the scales, but the wedges. They were misshapen and twisted and appeared to have gotten hot enough to cause one side of the scales to be twisted.

I have heard that Hess and some other fancy celluloid razors have the celluloid rot problem. This is the first time I have seen the Wedge distortion. Feather Edge and Golden Edge:
One other DD razor total trash! Twisted scales and trashed blades are very common from some forms of celluloid. And they can take out blades next to them! See Photos.

Look especially at the wedges…Wow, bummer







Both razors need new scales and can be buffed out.
So we will be trying things to make them all nice again.
Respectfully
~Richard