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Good for you. Now, go have a beer.

;)

Good for you. Now you can shave with a razor that is all yours, start to finish. It's a gratifying feeling, isn't it?

IME, coming off the hones, if it tugs ever so slightly I'll either do 10...

Ease up on your pressure. Start with heavy circles/medium circles to set the bevel, and then use light circles and really light X strokes after you TNT. Continue with the light strokes with very...

Check your contact with a magic marker. Run the marker along each side of the bevel, at the edge. Do a nice and even X stroke on each side, and you'll very clearly see where there is contact (the...

Do you have any CrOx spray? It's also a good polisher after 2000.

Here's another tip....walk to a local jewelry store and ask the nice man what he uses for his final buff on his custom rings...

Another thing that will help, is WD 40.

When you're sanding, starting at 800.....do a dry pass with 800 for a while, and then finish with a wet pass lubed up with the WD40. Continue this method...

That, sir....is already a world of difference. Good for you.

go to Lee Valley Tools They may ship oversees, and you can buy any grit of the 3M wet/dry by the sheet.

Really nice work so...

One of the things about pins that you need to be careful with is rust. Over time, it has a tendency to bind object together. This may not be the case with your razors, but I've encountered pins...

Those look like a great place to start. A bit of staining, and a few little pits.

Those should clean up really nice. You'll be able to put those into your rotation, and look back on them when...

For filing the pins, will you be keeping the scales? I put electrical tape around the pins before I begin to file. I use a small metal file, and that seems to work fine. Be careful when you are...