Thread: Should I work on this TR Cadman?

Thanks Laurens
I actually use a shavette at the moment. Thought I'd learn to shave before maintaining a blade, but when my friend offered this old piece I'm tempted to get into the straights - The more I read on resto's here the more work I see it will be! From what I can read the quality of a TR razor is no problem. It certainly looks like a satisfying job when you see some of the before/after pics here. Some of them come up just amazing, that would be cool.

If you go slowly and carefully by hand, you'll get one very fine razor indeed. Bengalls are relatively soft, IIRC, which should make it a little easier to restore.

I'd say unpin carefully, you can keep these nice scales, just wipe them with a little polish and they'll slook superb. Start hand sanding around 200 grit, 300 if you want to be extra careful, so that you'll clean off the surface rust and see what's underneath. Then decide which way to go: keep the last little patina and go up the grits, or clean it entirely and go down the grits (80-120) and then up to 1000 at least. Finish with polish and get it honed or learn to hone your self