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The Mirror Finish - Perception vs Reality? [Pics Included]
Long time reader of this forum and others like it, but new to posting. Thanks for the great restoration / shaving resources you make available here.
I've read enough on topics discussing "mirror" or "near mirror" finishes to know it's like chasing a unreachable ideal, or looking for a unicorn in the woods. In my own restoration work, I've managed to take some pretty rusted or tarnished blades and return them to much of their former glory. With the three razors depicted below, I'm able to replicate (what I at least think is) a near mirror finish. Yet when I hold these same razors at a different angle in the light (also depicted below), every flaw and buffer mark is painfully visible. Razors whose designs I sought to avoid over buffing look particularly unsightly, as you can tell where the felt bob with buffing compound spent more or less time.
So what's the verdict? Are these razors about as close to a "mirror" as I will get, do they in need of additional (or more skilled) buffing, or have I gone off the deep end of restoration? Advice of any sort welcome. Thanks for your time.
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