Thread: What is this, and is it bad?

For sure you can salvage it.

It does not have to be shiny to shave… and then there is a good satin finish.

Woldpack34 has posted some super satin finishes recently. That style of razor really looks good in satin, in my opinion. Satin finished blade and gleaming black horn scales look great.

Look up Woldpack’s work. While satin can be used to hide blemishes, satin in the caliber of Mike’s, is actually more work that mirror, because you take it to mirror, and then carefully apply the satin with Croesus Cloth to get a very even finish.

Either way it will be a shaver.