Thread: A. F. Bannister & Co.

Mail call, A.F. Bannister & Co. May need a little work.

Are you bidding from a cell phone or were you looking for a challenge ? Sorry but that poor thing needs a list of things done to it.

A little work would be mounting it in a frame :<0)

Sorry, at a bit of a loss for words.

Bob

Not worth your effort IMO. Maybe a letter opener at best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwEIDYsf4A

After a little work, it now looks like this, almost finished with it. 10Pups, why do you say that? And BobH, why at a loss for words?

Whoa! A bit of an understatement there!


Mike

Unless a razor like that had significant heirloom value to me personally I would not have bothered with it. The amount of work required to remove those chips is not a "little". Definitely not a razor I would pay for but oth if you enjoy doing a project like that why not? I'm going to guess that the heel/stabilizer may give you some trouble when you go to hone it so it might need a little more work there too.

Bob

You got the chips out, great ! I am also wondering how high the bevel is going to go once you hone it. Unless you use 5 layers of tape or regrind it after you raise the stabilizer.
I was just saying , it's more than a little work ( in a smart a__ way), I still believe that :<0)

Just noticed also that the edge is not even or it could be the photo. Looks like the toe is wider than the heel. Not a big deal.

Just not worth it to me. I hope you didn't spend a lot on it................
You had to take quite a bit of metal off of it & it changed the geometry all around on it. You're learning though & later you will see that it was a project that really wasn't worth it unless you just wanted to fix a really screwed up blade. If so, I have some blades you might be interested it.

Hint:

If you are going use it to learn with then at least learn the correct way...

Look at the first pic, see the way the original edge had a slight smile that followed the spine ???
Breadknifing it into a straight profile like you did means that now when you hone it you are going to be fighting the original geometry,, you should have at least breadknifed it gently following the original smile...

There are multiple threads on here about doing it,,

Now you are going to have to waste even more steel to bring it back into profile... basically what you have done it flattened out the old belly, the heel has to be re-contoured also ...