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even after cleaning it with steel polish and then scrub and bubbles, it just felt like it had been cruddy for a while. After soaking it is really felt better [at the cost of the staining of course]...

Thanks. I had a feeling this might have "revealed" an issue that was already present and I just couldn't see. I was particularly curious on that because some of the black ran down to the cutting...

My wife got me an old German razor at an antique fair which is in really nice shape. I cleaned it with metal polish and scrub and bubbles, and then thought I'd soak it over night in water (started...