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Hi Taskin,

it is called Naxos emery and it is the same material the wheels are glued with. For the application during pliesten/ polishing the powdered emery is stired into rapeseed oil and smeared...

Well colors of the ready to use pastes you can buy are vacant these days. The incredients differ from producer to producer, there are green pastes that are much coarser than the normal chromium oxide...

Very interesting read, thanks for the addition.
Some questions. What kind of emery do you use on your wheels and what is the green rouge - never heard that? Sounds like a green and red paste in one...

Hi Taskin,
yeah the video on youtube stops at a certain time and I think it is not an official permitted video. The rights of this film belong to the LVR institute in Solingen. They do sell DVD's of...

Here is a video of Werner Breidenbach, one of the best razor grinders in Solingen in all times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p63sYVCLVUk&t=205s

He introdueced me in the usage of the hollow...

Well a couple of reasons. First of course, in the older times like the 19th century, they did not have the possibilities of making the lot of variations of felt and other fabricated wheels for this...

Hi Taskin,
well to understand how these steady uniform marks are placed finally on old Solingen razors you need to look at the different steps according to old Solingen razor grinding.
After the...

Concerning the wood wheels encased by leather, there are generally 2 types.

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The more easy type is that a leather strap is glued along the circumference of the wood wheel.

The leather...

Iron oxide should work fine. The problem is how to bring it on the wheel! You need to glue it on the wheel or produce a paste that you can use.

The production of wooden wheels with leather is not...

Really an interesting thread! Thanks for bringing that up.

During the last 5 years or so I searched for - and spoke to - maybe a dozen old german grinders about polishing of blades. Traditionally...