Thread: Light razor restoration, Removal of stains and water marks ect

Hi guys

I noticed something today when i was stropping a razor that i thought i would share, seems as i haven't seen anyone else mention it on here.

So today i was stropping a razor which has quite a bit of water staining on it because i live in a area with hard water, the razor is a Muhle rm30 which stains very easily even if i dry it after use and strop it then oil it the next time i use it voila water marks ;(

So this razor hadn't been used in a while so i thought i would strop it on a pasted strop (red dovo paste, block) to get the edge back. after doing so i noticed that the spine that was in contact with the strop was polished and had no staining on it. So this got me thinking as it is basically an abrasive paste maybe it would work on everywhere else. So i put some tension on my strop and polished up the spine nicely rolling it from side to side in a stropping action, so i proceeded on to the hollow ground faces and polished it up nicely too. 45 minutes and a lot of elbow grease later the razor looks basically the same as when i got it. Result!!!

No need for sand paper or anything like that, and providing you don't catch the fin also completely shaveable afterwards too.

All i used was:
A face cloth, a few pieces of tissue, an old single sided leather strop and some dovo paste.

If anyone wants to try this with their razors please let me know how it pans out *WARNING*: an abrasive paste will strip any etching or gold plating so be carefull!