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Good to hear :) I will send all razors stropped and ready to shave. If a razor does a good job the first shave, but a poor one when you've stropped for your second shave, you know the problem is with...

I have finally got a good edge on the Alfred Williams. Narrow wedges are the hardest razors for me to hone. It took 4 tries before I turned an okay edge into a good edge, though admittedly not as...

Started some work on the last two, scraped off surface rust and did a quick buff with metal polish. Lots of patina on these two and lots of play between the blades and the scales.

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Yesterday I started out with making scales. The plates I cut were way too thick, so I decided to try and thin them down with the band saw, after which they were too thin. Trouble didn't end there,...

I started working on the third razor, an Alfred Williams Sheffield wedge. I feared most for the black spot in the centre that shows at both sides:

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But it turned out reasonably...

I honed up the Magnetica yesterday and it did a very good job this morning :) On to the next razor! I think I'll take the naked wedge and clad her in bubinga.

Thanks mates :) They passed the SWMBO test, so I know they're good :o Her words were: "Oooh, nice, has he seen it yet? It looks nothing like how you received it!"

And today I've been working on the Magnetica. I'm slowly getting better at safely unpinning razors.

This one has been unpinned and repinned before, as you can see at the pivot. The etch is very...

Updates! I finished the first one yesterday evening, had my first go at doming washers, following the simple steps I read in another thread.

Drill shallow hole in side of hammer and make a punch...

Just to get a clearer view of the patina and see if there was any need to take it down to 80. The 400 grit removed much of the surface rust, while leaving the metal mostly unharmed. If the stamps on...

I did a little work on the bottom razor, an ALLRIGHT silversteel.

Unpinning without damaging the scales is one of the most difficult things, IMO. I made a cross in the pin with a Dremel cut-off...

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind! I have had no problems going straight to the 400 so far, but I don't mean to start having them with these razors.

I was asked to restore BiscuitCookie's 5 razors, which used to be his great grandfather's. Following 10Pups's recent example, I'll be making pictures and posting my progress in this thread :)

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