Thread: My first restore...

I picked this razor and box up from eBay and decided to give it a try doing all the polishing by hand using a little square of leather and Flitz. I forgot to grab the 'before' photos which is unfortunate as the change was dramatic.

The Razor is Century Cutlery (I'm pretty sure... Posting from work and don't have the razor to double check but fairly certain it is Century...) "Radio Steel" and the top pics show the original scales which were broken wehn I got them but with some type of fix using what I think is lead tape over the pivot that you can see in the pics. The blade was functional but very loose and with that lead tape/whatever it is I could not adjust that. So, I ended up finding the donor scales thrown in with a razor deal at a big flea market and decided to put 'em on. The most interesting thing was that after all was said and done I was replacing the blade in the box and felt the razor hitting on something so I dug it out and turned out to be a piece of a broken scale that nearly matched the donors I put on it!

Something that was interesting was I could tell with the scales that the previous razor had contact to one side during open/close and when I got this one finished it moved toward that same side. I need to look more into that but I guess the way the scales have been drilled would account for that? Learning how to address that issue will be my next adventure.

I guess you can never tell where a razor has been in its' history but that was pretty interesting to go through all that work and end up with a random eBay find then a random flea market scale grab only to have, possibly, the razor be re-scaled with nearly the exact same type of scales it may have come with originally. Or, those are just a very common style scale and it is normal coincidence... But, I'll stick with the more romantic version.