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My first vintage cleanup and shave
A while back my wife brought home three straight razors from an estate sale. One of the three, a Griffon Carbo-Magnetic was in pretty good shape. The blade had oxidation but no rust, there were no nicks or chips, and the scales were healthy, but one of them was bowed inwards and touched the opposite one.
I cleaned up the oxidation with brasso. I would have liked to buff it and go further, but don’t want to lose the etching. Sanitized with Lysol spray, figuring the brasso would probably have killed most anything.
I had ordered new scales, but that problem turned out to be easy - Just laid it on the flat scale, slid a letter opener in where they were touching, and put a hair dryer on it for a couple of minutes. It straightened out beautifully.
I could see a bit of reflection off the edge, so last night I worked on the blade. Set a bevel on my 800 grit, then worked through 4000, 8000, and finished off with 1 micron diamond paste on a strop and finally Crox.
This morning I gave it 120 passes on leather strop, then had one of the best straight razor shaves yet, close and really comfortable. The shave was better than what I get from my two new razors (Dovo Special and Boker King Cutter). I know this one didn’t need much work, but now I’m really fired up to start haunting those estate sales :-).
Anyone know of a way to get a bit more shine without losing the etching?
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