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    Hello everyone. So I decided to take the plunge. After getting straight shaves from my favorite Barber over the years I decided it was the only way to go for a clean shave. Without going into much more, I have acquired a vintage razor from a local antique shop in my town.

    I searched for a few blades scattered around the place and came upon this "H. Eicker & Söhne, Biedermeier 42 4/8". Picked it up for $35, hoping that's a decent price for this razor. Has a fair amount of patina on the blade itself and some rust on the tang from the setting pin to the end of the tang. My question is, while I would like to preserve/restore this razor and also use it for shaving, how should I go about honing such a blade?

    I am going to grab all the essentials: strop with linen back, chromium oxide, proper shaving cream etc.

    I have looked at Norton's water stones for the honing and sharpening.

    Any advice would be appreciated. I will post detailed pictures in a few minutes.

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    My advice would be to send the razor to a professional and focus your energies on learning to strop and shave for now.
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    I agree on the send it out. You can start looking for someone to hone it here
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    Thank you both, that was kind of what I thought too. I actually found this place watching Lynn Abrams videos on everything straight razors so I'm going to try him out.

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