Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
Na, it's rubbed off and gone! Funny how things take different paths after manufacture. Climate, wear, someone trying to clean/preserve all make different patina on these razors. I have to soak the scales (3m wet type) and rub some rust pits on the blade. What we do for love!
Aw, that's too bad about the inlay. I was looking at the post on my phone, from there it looked like just tarnish.

I often think about the wear I see on razors. Specifically that common black line where the scales touch the blade while closed. Did that happen because the last time someone used the razor they just didn't have the get-up-and-go to take care of it anymore? Am I seeing the long, slow slide into mortality as a physical mark on these blades? Or is it just carelessness. I have to assume it's some of both. But I regularly think about how these things were cared for before I got them.

This Shapleigh is the newest razor I've got (well, except for the Dubl Duck SatinWedge in quarantine -- cell rot, as it seems all of them in the original scales have), so I think about this stuff kind of a lot.