Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by MikeT

The W&B celebrated are great blades! It can be a real challenge to get the blade face just right without ruining the stamp. Especially if there's some deep pitting, so then ya gotta just call it.
That's a great restore project there!

The pitting is mostly around the stamp. The "Celebrated" part isn't going to make it, but the Hollow Ground Razor and the makers mark should. Unfortunately the pitting is deep and numerous so I can't imagine getting all of it, but if I can get it shaving again I'll be happy.

The edge seems to have come out ok.

I had one of those that was beyond saving the stamp. I sanded forever on it and it just wasnt coming out very well. I then sent it to Vic. He reground it to a half hollow and got it back to me. Then it wasnt so much work to finish. Some times you just got to call it quits and go to desporate measure. Its now a clean looking W&B and shave great but no etchings and hollower.

Originally Posted by Gasman

I had one of those that was beyond saving the stamp. I sanded forever on it and it just wasnt coming out very well. I then sent it to Vic. He reground it to a half hollow and got it back to me. Then it wasnt so much work to finish. Some times you just got to call it quits and go to desporate measure. Its now a clean looking W&B and shave great but no etchings and hollower.

And that’s what I appreciate about SRP: members reaching out to help one another with advice and expertise. It is comforting to know there are people here who can do what I either cannot do myself or don’t know how to do and are willing to offer their support, knowledge and skill.

Gasman:

Yeah, that's probably what I'm dealing with here.

The pits are deeper than I was hoping.

Here it is with must of the surface rust removed. The "Hollow Ground" stamp is already fading.

Originally Posted by sonnythehooligan

That's a great looking retore!

The Mappin's scales say "Mappin's 75 Cent Razor" on them, and they are very distict. I thought I was going to need to trash them, but Sharpton advised me to try to restore them instead. I had no idea that could be an option. It is amazing what some of you folks are able to do.

Don't argue the Sharpton, he's right. Most horn can be repaired, to an extent. That is, if you want to keep it as original as possible.

I thought I was going to have to replace the scales on this one, but they were saved.





Not too shaby.....for 200 years old.

Originally Posted by outback

Don't argue the Sharpton, he's right. Most horn can be repaired, to an extent. That is, if you want to keep it as original as possible.

I thought I was going to have to replace the scales on this one, but they were saved.





Not too shaby.....for 200 years old.

Dude! Nice!

Here it is at 800 grit.

I decided I wasn't going to take any more metal from it.

The pitting is going to remain on the "show" side. I didn't want to take it any further down and remove the stamps. Isn't it typical that the unstamped side has no pitting?

Anyway, I'm happy that a $5 W&B in danger of the trash bin is going to be a shaver again. The imperfections will just be character.

I'll just keep increasing the grit from here and shine it up a bit.

Looking good. It should be a great shaver.

I got a couple that i wouldnt want to show close-ups of, but damn good shavers sometimes you just have to say "done". Another thing that can make it look a little better is to do a satin finish. Or a soak in vinegar. This will hide some bits of ugly but close up it will always be rough looking. You can look up how to do both of these finishes here somewhere. Ha.

Originally Posted by outback

Don't argue the Sharpton, he's right. Most horn can be repaired, to an extent... snip ...



Not too shaby.....for 200 years old.

Dang Mike! Those are gorgeous!