Thread: Step by step restore of a Wostenholm for a member

Mirror if possible

Originally Posted by Substance

Souschefdrum it is looking good but are you going to reset the edge also before you go to final polish etc? as it looks like it has a frown & a smile in it

I was going to reset after, but I will take advice from others. I will probably remove the frown , but the smile is pretty deep, may have to leave that.

Originally Posted by 2010johnjef

Mirror if possible

Mirror it is then. Understand there is pitting remaining from those huge rust spots, you csn see them in the latest pics.

Thats fine I know that the wosty was on the fence almost to the point of not being.restorable I know it wont be perfect

Awesome work. Thanks for sharing. Everything turned out gret for an old blade. My interest was in restoring the steel and correcting the frown. Looks like it's come along nicely.

Everyone like to see a smile, even if it is just a smirk on one side.

not much of a frown

Beautiful man

Im ridiculously stoked too see how this one comes.out

Really a minor frown,,,

I know of 3 vids from 3 different people that you should watch before honing that, it will really give you some ideas..

Charlie/Spazola has one
Alex/Philadelph has one
and I have one

We are all doing almost the exact same thing in all three vids all three are about honing a smiling blade, what you can also take away from those vids, is if you want to hone a edge "Toward" a smile the same techniques can be used..
You might need to push the heel a bit more but using those techniques on that razor, but it should start moving that edge right into the direction you want "Gently"..
Now you could use a bit more drastic measure to "Yank" it into line using a variation of breadknifing but I don't think that razor needs it...

Hope that answers your questions