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    Beautiful old Holley near wedge 7/8 with original horn scales. Just almost cried when I saw what someone did to the blade faces with a Dremel. I should not blame the tool. Just the tool using it. It's going to be a challenge to straighten this one out. Almost put it in the butchered blade thread. The back face is really wavy with a few digs into the bevel. It was on eBay and timed out with only one bid under the reserve. Made an offer and got it cheap enough just hope I can straighten it out.
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    if it was a good price i think you did pretty well,
    ive personally done this / tried and as long as there not to deep ....its just alot of work,
    ive tried using the rubber wheels with grit embedded and its certainly do able to buff / polish out....
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    Fortunately the blade is plenty heavy enough to correct the damage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    Fortunately the blade is plenty heavy enough to correct the damage.
    You're right there is a lot there to work with. Just fluster someone did that to such a nice razor. Makes it look shinier to sell so they thought. I wish they had just left it alone. I don't come across many nice Holleys'. I've sold a few but only have one in my collection. I'm hoping to keep this one. The scales have bug bites in the center of the scales but the edges are pretty clean. I'm going to try the horn dust and epoxy trick.

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    That is a nice looking razor despite what they did to it, it should clean up well
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    I bet that blade was nice before someone that shouldn't even be allowed to use a Dremel or work on straight razors, got ahold of it! Its really sad the things I see on eBay. A lot of it, the ones that claim to be restored rather they are highly polished with pits & all by a straight razor wannabe restorer! I hate seeing stuff like that because the risk is knowing whether or not they got it too hot. On this one it looks like it will be alright & a Dremel probably wouldn't have over heated it hopefully but I bet it will be okay. It's terrible to see when someone does something like that to a vintage piece.
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    Beautiful blade. I am partial to Holley's. Great steel that was made literally in their back yard! Oldest cutler in America too. I don't know what it is but every Holley I have bought, with original scales, ALL had bug bites.
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    I can't complain about it. I was young, ignorant, and... I butchered a blade. So today I pay the karma I own... without complaining.
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    That looks disgusting. I picked up one, blunt end, that had a small nick so I took a course stone and ground it down till all appeared level, never thinking about the smile on the blade, so it is a straight edge now. It seemed to take eons using a soft Arkansas stone to begin getting an edge. once I got it I went up the scale of my Arkansas stones till I reached the finish polish stone< it has taken me a few months to finally get the edge to shaving condition. I think it still needs work so I got some Lapping film at 8000 then 15000, hoping to get a good finished edge. I like the lapping film as I think it does a good job on putting a clean surface on the edge. I also have a 50,000 water stone I have used to touch up blades. I do this only when the blade starts pulling at my hair.

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