Thread: Buffing is great!

I started with these razors.
The Palmer.


Cant find the pic of the Torrey before I started.

And Imperial Razor


Got out the buffer and all my compounds with new wheels. I marked all the wheels and raked them then used scissors to trim off the strings. What a mess that was. ha. I used the glue stuff on the new wheels to help the compound to stick. Loaded up the wheels two at a time and went to town. I took pics of the progression of the Palmer only.

Before:


240 Greaseless:


400 Greaseless:


600 Greaseless:


Used some Green Cr0x Compound next but don't know where the pic went.

White Greased:


And this is all 3 blades after a few steps of the progression plus the Blue, including the scales I made with only the use of my new belt sander. I wet them for the pic as I have not got to any finishing stages of sanding with them yet:


I'm very happy about the stuff I bought. This sure made restoring and making scales a lot easier. Cant wait to do more. After starting on the Palmer I found that it was full of pitting and wasn't going to come out very nice. I bought it just to use with the buffer for my first try. Glad I did as it helped me to understand what I was doing.
I still need to get these blades put in scales but I'm very happy with what I learned and about how much easier it was then hand sanding and polishing. Took 1/6 to 1/8 of the time doing it this way and the outcome was much better. Thank you all for helping me to figure out what I wanted to buy and making some sound choices.