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GEM SE razor needs some work
Recently acquired this GEM SE razor to work on, it belongs to a work colleague.
He has asked for it to be cleaned up nice and would like to try shaving with it.
From my search so far ir seems to be a 1912 razor with some sort of scroll work on the handle.
It was stored in a shed that leaked when it rained so is in a sad state.
It came in the original Bakelite? box with built in blade bank and used razor storage spots.
The box cleaned up OK with nearly all rusty marks now gone, just a small crack to take away a bit from the appearance.
The razor is going to need a lot of work to get it right, so far it has had a good scrub using an old toothbrush and Toothpaste, and soaked in hot water and Baking Soda twice.
This removed most of the rusty marks with some bright metal showing through.
For the next step, I'm thinking either sand blasting or soda blasting would be effective to get back to clean metal.
Would this be a worthwhile step to take??
Some pics to show the razor are below.
As it appeared on first inspection
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After initial clean up
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