Thread: OK Bruno - restore THIS!

http://cgi.ebay.de/Roemische-Bronze-...QQcmdZViewItem
He he.

Si

To be honest, if I would not be busy with the Tosuke stuff and 2 other restorations, I would buy it, clean it and sharpen it, just to prove I could.

The next one I will start in is the middle blade from this lot. I only bought the middle blade.

I am currently polishing up a John Barber hollow ground, and hand sanding a pitted J.C.C wedge to a clean 1/4 hollow.

Somehow I just knew you would say something like that... I am in awe, truly. One day, when I grow up, I want to be just like you.

Si

I'm watching it...
If the price doesn't go up I might place a bid near the end of the auction.
I'd appreciate it if noone else here placed a bid unless they seriously want to try to restore it.

I'm not going anywhere near that thing She's all yours Bruno

Being a (supposedly) Roman era razor I wouldnt WANT to restore it, why ruin an antiquity?

Copy it? Hell YEAH!

Antiquity schmantiquity.

Suppose the craftsman who made it is watching down from heaven (or up...) what would he prefer?
a) someone puts it in a cabinet -rusty as it is.
b) someone cleans up the rust, puts the edge back on and uses it for the purpose it was made for.

Ask Robert Williams, Mastro Livi or Tim Zowada. My guess is that they would all prefer answer b.
I think you can do no greater homage to a craftsman than to use the things they made.

My mother restores books that are hundreds of years old. when she starts, she literally rips the book to pieces (in a controlled way of course ) She cleans up the pages, restores them like you wouldn't believe, and then binds them again with authentic materials and methods.
Would you prefer the restored book or a pile of mouldy pages that rots away before your eyes?

Restored antiques -if skillfully restored- are prized in the antiques world.

If you are serious, and you actually do manage to outbid the museums that will be after it - and you do get a decent edge on it, I would love to see it. I would drive up to belgium just to take a look at it.

Awesome.

Si

Those of us in the states would love to see the pictures.

Phil

I am serious.

But sadly, it's not going to happen.
I just checked and it is now already at 106 Euros.
As much as I would love to take this one on, at that kind of money my wife would gut me with it before I'd have had the chance to restore it.
And even if she didn't, with the current renovations in the house, 2nd kid on the way I cannot justify the cost to myself.

I had set up a snipe for 75 euros but I cancelled it now.
Ah well...

I'll be going to the antique market in Tongeren (which is HUGE) next week, so maybe I can pick up something interesting over there.

It would have been cool tough, to shave with a razor that is close to 2 millennia old.