Thread: have i made a mess with these old solingen razors?

Hi mates

as i have wrote in the introduction topic i have found some pretty old razors.
There were a little of rust on them, only a superficial layer luckily.
So i have left them all the night in vinegar, even if it was the red one, and the rust the day after vanished!!
But a fastidious line mark the level where the blade emerged from vinegar.
Then i have tried for some minutes to immerse them in bleach and here i think to have made a mess because the blades in few minutes became rusty(inside the weach) but with a rag whool i cleaned them very well.
The final result is that the rust is vanished but there are a lot of oxide stains i'd like to remove.
Here some photos to let u understand
Best Regards
Paolo
p.s. it s seems i can't attack photos till now

If I understand you correctly, you haven't ruined your blades .

What you need to do is polish them with something like Mothers or Silvo.
That should take care of the oxidation/stains.

Good Luck !!

Bleach eats steel. That is why it is never used to sterilize beer brewing tanks. Bleach and steel BAD. Now it depends on how deep it ate and how much you want to sand . The break even point is before it loses structural integrity and obliterates the shape. Get out some 220 grit sand paper and start on the non show side and access the damage. The rest is sweat equity and a lesson learned.

If I may ask, what happened to the spine on that other one? I've seen blades chip, but not spines

Originally Posted by Robbied

If I may ask, what happened to the spine on that other one? I've seen blades chip, but not spines

1 will he clean it up? 2 turn it into a stubby. 3 how do you keep the blade tip honed? Have to get creative.
If it was my GGG grandpas I would find a way.
[B]Lastly I was wrong stating to go to 220 grit, you should start least invasive and work up to grittier to find clean metal or your happy with clean save etch/engraved.I am sorry for the wrong advise previously given/B]

I'd start with 2500 grit sandpaper and work down in grit until a satisfactory amount of rust was being removed. It wouldn't surprise me if you had to go down to 400 grit to start getting results though.

The spine just looks covered by the towel to me :<0) The only thing I see getting ruined is the etch. It looks like sanding is required and the pitting is usually deeper than the etch. Polish may do enough to satisfy you though. Start like said above. Less evasive on down and good luck.

Originally Posted by 10Pups

The spine just looks covered by the towel to me :<0) The only thing I see getting ruined is the etch. It looks like sanding is required and the pitting is usually deeper than the etch. Polish may do enough to satisfy you though. Start like said above. Less evasive on down and good luck.

I agree with 10Pups, the paper towel is covering it up but it does look broke at first glimpse!