Thread: Wear and tear on a razor

Originally Posted by syslight

i have not heard of a safe way to replenish the steel. so you are just going to have to polish that some, hone and use it ... it will probably be your best razor ... the ugly ones are... sort of like how your ugly kid is your favorite... somebody has to love it.

I think that razor will be fine once honed properly, when i started honing i got a WB to practice, it had a large chip not deep but long, once the chip removed and honed properly its a killer shaver but ugly as sin!!

Originally Posted by Joed

As noted above, if the razor can be honed and gives a good shave it's fine. In the pictured razor I see that the hone wear just under the spine is a bit wide which is a sign of a lot of honing. Also, the bevel is going into the stabilizer which may cause honing issues. These are signs I use for gauging over honing. Some may say that the curve up at the toe is over honing in that area but I believe it may be a mod to reduce cuts from the square tip while still having one.

OK, pause for a dumb noob question. Where and/or what part is the ‘stabilizer’? Not familiar with that term. Maybe someone would be so kind (and patient) to educate me?

Thanks,

bruseth

Originally Posted by bruseth

OK, pause for a dumb noob question. Where and/or what part is the ‘stabilizer’? Not familiar with that term. Maybe someone would be so kind (and patient) to educate me?

Thanks,

bruseth

There you go!!

Note bruseth that not all razors require stabilizers though. Only higher grades of hollow ground blades require the extra strength to support their super thin blade edges. Half hollow through to wedge do not have stabilizers

Originally Posted by Nuntits

Note bruseth that not all razors require stabilizers though. Only higher grades of hollow ground blades require the extra strength to support their super thin blade edges. Half hollow through to wedge do not have stabilizers

And that’s why it’s called a stabilizer… Makes perfect sense! Thanks to both of you (Martin103 and Nuntits) for your kind and informative replies. I’m constantly learning something new here, thanks to folks like you. Thanks again.

Bruseth

We all are always learning I am a newbie like yourself bruseth, I started this epic adventure about 5-6 months ago now