Thread: What Do You Have In The Mail Right Now?

This beauty, and it'll be my first attempt to (slightly) restore classic razor:

Any words of wisdom will be highly appreciated

Clean it with some metal polish and a rag, by hand.
Hone it and enjoy

Originally Posted by outback

Clean it with some metal polish and a rag, by hand.
Hone it and enjoy

Thanks. No buffing wheels etc.?

Nope, it looks pretty good in the pic. Looks like a good candidate for a easy clean up.
IMHO.

Originally Posted by dimab

This beauty, and it'll be my first attempt to (slightly) restore classic razor:
Any words of wisdom will be highly appreciated

Outback speaks the truth! There's no need to go any lower than some metal polish.

However you will find that some well crumpled newspaper before using a rag will do wonders. The newspaper will be a very fine abrasive that will work with the metal polish. Then you can go to a soft rag/I like old T-shirts.

Also PLEASE REMEMBER that while the razor may not be sharp enough to shave it's more than likely sharp enough to cut the Hell out of you! So please be careful.

Pics after polishing would be very nice!

A couple of fat Wade&Butchers showed up today
The top one is from the bay and the bottom one is from Rob here, it was listed in the B/S/T area



Rob's is going to be the first to clean up, and the scale will be fixed.
The FBU has a bit more going on, but it's going to get taken care of and revived as well.

Awesome blades Dave!

Originally Posted by dimab

This beauty, and it'll be my first attempt to (slightly) restore classic razor:

Any words of wisdom will be highly appreciated

Use Flits metal plolish its the non abrasive, if u want to darkenyour engraving, use gun blueing as a last step use 5 micron paper.

Originally Posted by Dieseld

A couple of fat Wade&Butchers showed up today
The top one is from the bay and the bottom one is from Rob here, it was listed in the B/S/T area



Rob's is going to be the first to clean up, and the scale will be fixed.
The FBU has a bit more going on, but it's going to get taken care of and revived as well.

Great find, .... Post office has your address wrong, it should be TX not MI :-).

I ordered a piece of linen as a replacement secondary for my SRD Buffalo strop. When I did, I inquired if they also sold the bits and tackle required to make a strop, because I didn't really want the poly webbing to lie around going to waste. I was informed that, unfortunately, they don't keep strop hardware in stock...so I did what any other reasonable person would - put in an order at Tandy Leather and got to work:



Pair of D-rings, some stiff brown Latigo scraps, and of course Chicago screws. Might have to repurpose the screws, 3/8 is a bit too big methinks. But I may be able to source smaller screws at one of the local craft stores so...no big deal there.