Thread: What Is Your Restoration/Mod Philosophy For Vintage Razors?

This is a pet-peeve of mine! Having worked my entire life in the automotive field, cars have always been a passion of mine and my view is the same for both cars and razors.

If you buy a 57 Chevy 2 door in rough shape a spend the time finding original panels to replace completely rusted out ones, reupholster the interior to as close to OEM as possible, rebuild the engine to stock condition or hi performance that was available for that time period, THAT is a Restoration.

If you buy the same vehicle and chop out the rusted fender wells and flair them to accept 20" rims and tires, put Recaro buckets seats in it, and drop in a fuel injected engine from later model, THAT is a Custom!

Same should go for old razors. Original scales or as close as possible to something from the period. I don't know what kind of finish period blades had but somehow I don't think they were the super mirror finish a lot of people do. Kind of like the satin finishes people like Wolfpack34, Sharpton and Gssixgun does them too. I imagine it would be more like an original looking, off the grinder type finish that would have been done in the day.

Now please don't get me wrong!! If a highly polished finish is your thing and you find it appealing, more power to ya. And slapping glow-in-the-dark acrylic scales on them is fine if that's your thing BUT, it's a custom restore, NOT a restoration!!!