Thread: Experimental restoration

There are some subtle lines on the razor that are easy to round and easy to loose, to start with, that blade is an extreme example and that is a lot of buffing and sanding.
There is a very soft transition on that blade where the heel transitions into the tang. The other line that is east to round is just above the notch on the bottom of the tang. It is the line that runs at an angle and is part of reducing the tang so it sits nicely in the scales. That one is super easy to loose.
You removed a lot of very deep pitting on that blade.
I find it to be a very good practice when learning new tool, especially my buffer, to alway use blades that are otherwise dead. If I learn form those, and the lesson winds up in the dust bin, I have not lost a blade only gained knowledge. Sometimes it is knowledge about what not to do, but I still take it as a gain.

Originally Posted by RezDog

There are some subtle lines on the razor that are easy to round and easy to loose

Yes !!!! I have seen far too many restored razors with all lines and angles rounded, it's such a shame!

well actually i give a try with a knife to see what can be done if i do something wrong. after that i was carefull to keep the lines at tang and the spine. i was thinking to do polishing today but i'm kind of lazy today so maybe tomorrow. but actually i'm pretty happy to save this blade. and it was unblievable to see how much rust came out from these pitchs.