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Well I just got an email back from Richard Binder. Apparently the stuff didn't work as well as I had heard. He told me he was once licensed to use a product called G-10 that was supposed to redye...

I have emailed the pen restoration guy who has the stuff. When I get his reply I will pass on the info. as far as how to use it, how well it works and where to get it.

Ray

The reason I ask is that some of the fountain pen restorers have a liquid that "restores" the surface of hard rubber without having to do a bunch of sanding. You put this stuff on and polish the...

Ebonite and bakelite are not the same thing. The Black Hard Rubber (ebonite) will burn with a cig lighter, bakelite won't. They used to make ashtrays out of bakelite because it was hard to burn it....

Does Vulcanite get a brownish green "tarnish" on it as it ages? (like an old pipe stem does) If so its probably the same stuff.

Ray

Was hard black rubber, AKA ebonite, ever used for scales on straight razors? I know it was used a lot on vintage fountain pens and it was used a whole lot for tobacco pipe stems. I'm not sure of...