Thread: Magnification is your friend, well lit Magnification is your BFF

The thread title is a quotation from GSSIXGUN:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...bing-over.html

I've been restoring for about a week, with five razors at various stages of restoration. I've been using three different magnifiers and have settled on one that is most useful for my purposes.



All three have battery-powered lights. The one in the middle has 60 X magnification. It's great, but the scope of the focus is quite small. The other two have 40 X magnification. I like the loupe on the right, but I find it a little unwieldy, opening the case and reaching under to flip on the light. The magnifier on the left has a button you just push with your thumb, using the same hand in which you are holding the magnifier. It has a relatively wide scope. I used it a lot while peening to see exactly where the pin head was relative to the washer.

This is the one I ended up using most often:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Joe

Thanks for the link. I had been looking at the magnifier in the middle. Gonna read some reviews on both an compare.

I have the one on the left also and find it the handiest o use. 40 X is powerful enough to see what is happening.

I have the one on the right, got it for like two bucks I think. Works we'll for me.

Thanks for the thread! Good photo also!

Guess that I like the one in the middle... for my eyes and its use as a scratch and bevel detector...
~Richard