Thread: What is this, and is it bad?

Yea, she should turn out to be a good shaver but you'll know what you have when you start to clean her up. The "Devils Spit" corrosion can be deceiving in how deep it goes. The concern with corrosion near the edge is that you may have to do a lot of honing, read removing metal, to get past the corrosion for a good solid edge. You'll know there too once you start to hone. I have a few that that I had to hone a lot to get past edge corrosion but in the end got to good metal and a solid edge. Just takes work.

If the horn scales are on the dry side you can give them a good soak in Neats Foot oil to help with that. Goos luck with your project.

Bob