Thread: Is this razor restorable/worth restoring?

Originally Posted by Phrank

Here's a pic of a blade I bought that was deeply pitted, really was beyond restoration, but a member here did exactly that and polished it up and honed it. I'd say it was not anywhere near as bad as that razor, here's a pic from before.



And here is after:



I'd say the blade in question is way, way down the path from where this blade started.

Phrank, your version of "beyond restoration" and mine are vastly different! As for the razor in question, that pitting at the heel is DEEP. serioiusly deep.
You may never get to clean steel without turning it into a full hollow, and even then...

But I COULD see making it work with a heel taper and grinding away only the heel, thus leaving at least some size to the rest of the blade.

If he drops it down to 20 bucks I'll pick it up and play with it and give it away to whomever wants it when I'm done.

Originally Posted by Magpie

Phrank, your version of "beyond restoration" and mine are vastly different! As for the razor in question, that pitting at the heel is DEEP. serioiusly deep.
You may never get to clean steel without turning it into a full hollow, and even then...

But I COULD see making it work with a heel taper and grinding away only the heel, thus leaving at least some size to the rest of the blade.

If he drops it down to 20 bucks I'll pick it up and play with it and give it away to whomever wants it when I'm done.

The pics don't really show how deep the pitting was...Wolfpack took a shot at it and did an awesome job, that big W&B, if you could get some great steel after removing the pits, would be a great razor, no doubt about it...thumb notch, beautiful chopper....would be great to see if it could be brought back to life.