Thread: Restoring a Razor for a new member.

Mark Cantrell, whom is one of our new members, was trying to remove the scales from his razor that he bought off eBay. In trying to drill out a pin he slipped and gouged the scales which I am sure many have done, me included. He asked for help in fixing the gouged area and Lynn referred him to me.

For a reasonable fee I did the following: I repaired the gouged area as best I could and asked Mark if I could put CA (superglue) on the scales and he agreed. I put brass bullseye collars on the scales with brass pins. I also tried three times to hone the blade and got it so that it would shave kind of OK but not to my specs. So I replaced the blade with a notched W & B blade which was the same kind that came on his razor anyway except for the notch. This one he will like better as it does shave well and looks nicer.

The pics are: #1 original razor; #2 & #3 restored razor; #4 shows the blade shank and the bullseye collars with the repaired area just to the right of the collars; #5 the repaired area at the bottom of the bullseye collars.

Hopefully this little bit of help will keep Mark around the SRP forum for some time to come and also hoping he has a more enjoyable shave with this razor.