Thread: Destroing a beautifull rasor

Did anyone of you have ever broke a rasor during the restoration . I have restore 20 and more razors and that nightmare never hapened to my , but today .....
I bought today from the flea market a beautifull Wilhelm Boos jr. Solingen Germany SIGI 92 razor . Blade size was 22 mm or 7/8 i think . I buy it with a 5x15 microcorund stone 800 grit , for 17 $.
The blade and the handle , were brand new but a few Dots of rust , and a few small chips . After grinding the small chips of the blade ,i decide to polish it ,as usualy . After 10 min of polishing with the Dremel and 1-6 microne paste i decide to insist more for ideal polish , and then the devil came . It was an american type point , and just in a part of the second i made a little mistake and the wool polishing weel grab the point
The result a huge piece of the blade aproximate 0.7x0.7 sm was broken of the point . I almost began to cry and after 1 hour of aufull regret , i decide , and i cut and shortened the rasor aproximate 1 sm of his 7.5 sm lenght .
Now i have a chubby 6/8 version of the most amazing , big and unique rasor that i could ever have in my miserable life .
This razor was exactly the same as J.Henkels Friodur 7/8 . I almost get my first hearthattac in age of 33 .
It is very stresfull experience and is example , not to rush things in owr pasion . Dont hate me please for this aufull crime .I wil not buy and restore more blades for a long time , in sure .

I've broken a few during the restoration process. Most of them were just practice razors and nothing I couldn't do without. I did break a Frederick Reynolds razor once and that was very disheartening because I lost the razor and nearly my finger.

Dremel=BAD!
They are not forgiving AT ALL!

Yes, it hurts when that happens. The use of a Dremel tool to polish razors has been known to cause exactly that problem. Personally I avoid that by hand polishing but have broken a razor in other ways so you are never completely safe when restoring old razors. The bright side is that at least you were able to salvage a usable razor out of the catastrophe.

Bob

Dremel= Straight Razor Tool of Death




Darth Vader carried a Dremel as a backup,,,,,

While a dremel has its uses, it is the number one destroyer of razors.

Dremel: tool of injury to anything or one...I had a metal shop teacher in High School who ran a Dremel grinding wheel across his finger while showing us how to be cautious with power tools....he later moved to teach wood shop where I watched him have his finger yanked into a bench grinder wheel while trying to de-bur a chipped wrench socket by putting it on his finger tip. If the two events hadn't been so bloody and pathetic, I probably would have laughed, but my father raised me to be kind to....(fill in the blank). Needless to say, I learned a lot from the teacher.

Dremel . Never , never use it on or around a straight razor. The two don't mix. (Yes, based on personal experience). Very luckily I, nor the razor, were injured. But it could have been ugly for both of us!

Originally Posted by Chevhead

Dremel=BAD!
They are not forgiving AT ALL!

Indeed they aren't. I polished most of my collection with a dremel and broke 1 blade out of 17 now I'm working on turning it into a shorty.

I would rate your experience with Dremels & razors as; very skilled & experienced,,, with a little bit of luck.