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I have honed several razors with gold plating on them before. The plating was very thin, like a thin gold wash. I have never had any problem with that type of plating. But, this razor was entirely...

The lettering looked shallow and not like lettering on the tang usually looks. But, when indented lettering is plated, I am sure it would tend to fill in the letters and make it look shallow and...

No. I thought about it. But, the only feature that might have shown up on a photo is the plating at the bevel. Even that would have been difficult, with questionable value.

I ran into a Shumate straight razor the other day that was really odd. It was metallically plated, like a US quarter. It had new appearing shiny silver metal on top, about 1/64 inch thick - it was...