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Still looks better than some museum pieces I've seen.

Shows how hard some of these old blades are.
Turn it into a fixed blade design if the blade is undamaged.

Very even scratch pattern. Surely not hand sanding ?

The coarse ones ? Grey or yellow. I forget the colour

If you have a Dremel, get the skinny 3m "Radial Bristle Discs". Clean out those jimps fast.
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b40064820/

Some Sheffields were marketed as India steel. It wouldn't surprise me that some German makers advertised the same way. The term refers to crucible steel which could have been made anywhere ,...

I thought cold shuts would be peculiar to castings or forge welding. I guess the steel bar could have had the flaw in it prior.

It's an oddity for sure. Here's the old girl I was talking about.

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You can get weird surface cracks on razors sometimes. I had a Lakeside Cutlery with a crack that ran almost the full length of the spine & crossed over the toe to the other side. Never moved thru...

Most definitely don't take steel off the centre. That is what has already happened to this blade & yes, it's quite common. People don't know how to hone a smiling blade properly & end up...

Nope. Although they are single bevel, wakamisori are hollow on both sides.

If you make em long enough would be perfect for splicing needles.

We used to have a member who home brewed his own scales. Can't remember the process I'm afraid.
https://sharprazorpalace.com/workshop/19929-custom-scales-larger-razors.html

Don't worry the French hate Americans. In fact the French hate most everybody tho I used to get by when I was there because I was an Aussie :p

:roflmao Almost worth a Thanks as a useful post mate. Made me laugh hard.

Benzene is the worry but @ less than 0.1 %, mebe not so worriesome :)

Or go old school & use toxic chemicals :p
https://sharprazorpalace.com/razors/96682-can-horn-wood-scales-dyed.html#post1137671

Yeah, do a few hundred old Sheffields with horn scales & see how many of the holes actually line up ;)

With the size of the pivot holes they used to punch there's a lot of wiggle room.

Just hasn't been my experience using a soft 8B pencil & I apply it with 2 fingers :shrug:

Pencil won't wash off waterstones. Don't know about arks as I never bothered with any grids on arks as the lapped area is obvious , at least to my eyes.

As advised starting with loose low grit SiC will flatten arks in no time.

What have you marked your stone with ? Looks like Sharpie pen. If so the ink can absorb into a stone to varying depths...

You have matched spine to edge curvature & the edge finishes well before the stabiliser.

Seen plenty of new 'uns that don't look that good ,geometry wise.

As above :)

This guy takes OCD to another level :o

You can still succeed with an excess of exposed pin. First razor I ever did was like that & I was wondering why it took so long with the tiny, tiny taps I used. Seemed to take forever but got a...