Thread: The rest of my curious finds (finally uploaded)

As I was perusing (or rather rummaging) through my grand parents basement I came across five straight razors in total. Here is what I found, anything of interest to be found here? Also looking for information/techniques on how to prevent further rusting, restoration, and preservation.

Here is the last one, I posted this one up yesterday. http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...ious-find.html

Thanks for looking, helping, and/or offering advice!

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...wers-here.html
This is a link to the workshop area. You will find all you need to know and more in there. They all look like they could live to shave again, except the last one, the cast steel. It has rust right into the pivot. It may only become a wall hanger, however for a family heirloom razor that is not so bad. Once well clean and put into a shadow box it could be nice.
How far you may want to go with your restoration is kind of up to you. What are you intending to do with them. If all you are wanting is to have and to hold as collectable pieces of family history, them get some steel wool and some mothers (or similar) polish and scrub them and scrub them until all the black and rust is gone and only shiny steel remains. Then wax them. The scales need to be oiled and could probably use a little steel wool to clean them a bit. Use 0000 steel wool as it is the finest.
If you want to shave with them. Do the same thing, but do buy an inexpensive razor from the classifieds to learn with. As new people we tend to ding things up pretty easily and it would be a shame to drop an heirloom razor while stropping. Once you have a decent grasp on shaving then send them out and get them professionally honed. The cast steel will need more work.

Thanks for the info! I think I may just want to make them look pretty and hang them up for now. I will visit the link you posted, but I am curious to learn where one can fine different varieties of steel wool other than the soap pads found in the supermarket. Hmm.

They are very common in hardware stores

Originally Posted by theunbeerded

Thanks for the info! I think I may just want to make them look pretty and hang them up for now. I will visit the link you posted, but I am curious to learn where one can fine different varieties of steel wool other than the soap pads found in the supermarket. Hmm.

Any hardware store should have various grades of steel wool.

That is a neat collection of heirloom razors. I admire your plan to clean them and keep them.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

That is a neat collection of heirloom razors. I admire your plan to clean them and keep them.

It is the second best plan I can think of. However I have to admit that shaving with a straight razor is not everyones cup of tea. Keeping them and cleaning them up is a great plan though.

Originally Posted by theunbeerded

Thanks for the info! I think I may just want to make them look pretty and hang them up for now. I will visit the link you posted, but I am curious to learn where one can fine different varieties of steel wool other than the soap pads found in the supermarket. Hmm.

"Sandpaper" (silicon carbide wet/dry) in amazingly high grits can be purchased at places that sell automotive painting/refinishing supplies. They are not generally overpriced either. ENGLISH COLOR is a source here. No idea if they are nationwide.

You wouldn't believe how many would give their last dollar to have 'A' heirloom razor let alone the Stash that you've acquired!

Depending on what you want to do with them (I do hope they will once again see action for daily shaving) there are different degrees of how far you may want to bring them back.

This brings me to post this link to show you that what you see may not always be as 'Bad' as it seems. With that said, 99% of the time, if it looks rusted especially with the black then there will be problems underneath.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...n-cleanup.html

Here's another link to show what I thought wouldn't be very hard to clean up (please note, I was very new)

http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...ered-horn.html

I do hope that you will cherish all of those razors and get them back to doing what they were made for and that is shaving!