Wonderedge Blade- What would YOU do?

Hi All,

I acquired this as part of a lot of razors a while back. It's a Pearlduck Wonderedge, no scales. Looks like a big chip was honed out of the heel, it's 13/16" at the toe, 6/8" at the heel. Hone wear is a hefty ~2mm and fairly even. There is light pitting on the blade, but nothing too bad. I haven't honed it or shaved with it. It is just sitting in a drawer and I'm in a purging mood, so I'm trying to make a rational decision about it's fate.

I know this is supposed to be one of the holy grails of razors, but I am just not feeling the love!:fim: (probably due to condition and aesthetics). Trying to decide if I should: A.) breadknife it to get rid of the massive heel/toe slope, give it some nice scales, hone it up, and have it as part of the rotation, or B.) Sell it as is to someone who is dying to have one and would REALLY enjoy it and fix it up properly.

I am not interested in spending money to restore it at this point, I have overspent on razors and my collection is 'complete' for the moment. If it was really nice it would be a no brainer (to keep), but as is I don't know...

What would you do if it was yours?



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Thanks in advance for your opinions.

Regards,
Jason

Based on the photos I'm seeing it really doesn't look that bad. If it was me I'd fix it up and hone it. For a little effort you would have one fine razor. Of course it's your razor.

However, if you breadknife it we're gonna come over to your house and punch you in the nose.:)

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Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Based on the photos I'm seeing it really doesn't look that bad. If it was me I'd fix it up and hone it. For a little effort you would have one fine razor. Of course it's your razor.

However, if you breadknife it we're gonna come over to your house and punch you in the nose.:)

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I just think it looks really goofy with the thick toe and skinny heel. Just can't see myself using it like that without fixing it somehow. I wouldn't know how to 'straighten' it without breadknifing it (and the subsequent punches).

Personally I'd have a go at restoring it, but if you just don't want to then put it in the classifieds here. I'm sure someone would make you a decent offer. I'm already overspent for now as well btw, but someone here would be able to make you an offer.
I suppose I someone should make the standard "I'll look after it for you" comment, but you'd deserve something in return for something as nice as that. Just don't junk it, k.

I see what you mean-It dosent do much for me either,and after shaving with my cousins,which took a year of hinting since he hasent used it since the 80s,it shaved well enough,but not the "wonderedge" I was expecting,just my 2cents.

1/16" is not a great amount of slope.... polish it... rescale it.... you can always REMOVE metal... but the metal stretcher don't work too well.....

if it were mine... i would hone it and love it...

i would also be interested in taking it off your hands... so DIBS!!!

If you want to stick it in the mail to me, I wouldn't complain ;). I'd be willing to either spend $ having it fixed or have a go at it myself. I just got some washers from microfasteners and some scale material from Rockler...

If I felt the way you seem to feel about this blade, I think I'd give it to a nice family out in the country and let it live out its days on the farm. Oh, wait, that's what my parents told me about the dog...

I'd probably put it up for sale, so someone could buy it and do the right things for it.

I would send it to *censored* and have him scale it, polish it, hone it, and sell it on eBay for me

I agree that significant amount of steel has been removed. The shoulders on these look very different when new. If you want to try it, stick it in a pair of scales, hone and use it. Otherwise sell it/give it away/trash it, whatever you feel like, it's your razor.

I would probably try to clean the blade up a bit, but you wouldn't even have to since the pitting doesn't seem too bad. So maybe a good polish, get it in some nice ready made scales (even NOS Dovo's would do, IMO, relatively cost effective and they look nice enough, considering the original scales on most Dubl Ducks anyway) and hone her up.

I don't see the point in getting the slope out either, waste of time and steel. Although it would be aesthetically more pleasing to get it even, I do agree on that, but just IMO not worth the effort.

If you're all set with your rotation though and really don't need another one, I'd suggest selling it on since they seem to be quite popular. Having never shaved with one, I can't judge for myself.

Your tone suggests you don't need another blade, don't really want to do too much restoring and aren't ecstatic about the razor itself, so if I had to give a firm piece of advice: sell it.

Sell it and make someone else very happy :)

Tape it to you fingers and run around your house yelling "I am Edward Scissor finger"!!

Based on the hone wear and especially the loss of the original scales I would forget that it used to be a collectible razor. Getting that behind me I would ignore the heel to point difference in width, put it in some replacement scales and hone it. I'd shave with it and if I liked the way it shaved I'd keep it and if I didn't I'd pass it on.

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Originally Posted by Wintchase

Tape it to you fingers and run around your house yelling "I am Edward Scissor finger"!!

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"alvin razor digit".....

FWIW I'd keep it and rescale it....but that's just me

I have some DD cracked ice scales lying around that you can have. They are satinedge scales not wonderedge, but all the metal pieces are there. They just need to be cleaned up. There yours if you like.

Thanks everyone for the replies. I think I'm gonna scale her up and take it around the block. I'll let you know how it works out!

Thanks jcsixx, PM sent. Everyone here is amazingly generous!

I'd put a set of scales on it, hone it up and see what you think of it. Yo might be surprised how well it shaves.

Fix it up and use it is what i would do. Breadknife it - why not? It has already been breadknifed to get the chip out, so you might as well take an even amount off to get the thickness at the bevel equal along its length. when they make razors they 'strike' the edge (get rid of the uselessly thin bit of metal at the bevel by putting the edge to a hard stone) so you would only be repeating the process. With a sloping line across the bevel you are going from thick at the heel to thin at the tip, so only the tip is as it was originally intended to be. It's not the end of the world if you don't get a good shaver out of it as you aren't using it at the moment. Try it - you might surprise yourself, or do a lot of work rescaling it and maybe thinking it looks a bit of dog because you didn't even it up. It's not the razor it once was, that's for sure, so no reason to beat yourself up over breadknifing it!

Regards,
Neil