Thread: Not an easy Ba(r)tman(n)

Got this Bartmann for a few Euro not long ago.
Has a lot of bad pitting caused by the celluloid scales.



Looking through a loup wiith 20x magnification I thought the pitting was not that deep and should be easily polished out with fine emery.
So I started polishing with soft felt wheels glued with fine Naxos emery. After half an hour working, the pitting has not really disappeared as I hoped.



So I changed to wood wheels glued with a bit coarser emery. After another hour of work, I still wasn't satisfied, so changed again to one step coarser grade emery.
The hollow part was not the problem any more but I had to be very careful polishing the area of the belly to the edge.



Finally nearly all of the pitting had been gone, just very few small shadows seen with backlight in the area between belly and edge.

The razor had been thin grinded before, so finally handpolishing of that area to prevent to get too thin and risk fissures.



Final result after remounting and honing.



The razor is now singing as soon as you touch the blade. Fantastic! Looking forward to a hopefully great shave this evening.