Thread: Is this fixable?

Not sure if this is a lost cause or not. First a little bit of background. This razor was my great grandfathers and I remember seeing it at my grandparents house at an early age 9 or 10. As a result over the 15 years or so I had the idea in the back of my mind that I would like to shave with a straight razor someday. Finally in my mid twenties I began shaving with a straight razor and acquired a healthy case of straight razor acquisition disorder along the way. In the two decades since I seen this razor I had lost track of it, and thought it was lost when my grandparents house was sold. Then earlier this week my uncle said he had it and since I was interested in straight razors mailed me this razor. If this was an ordinary razor I wouldn't even bother with it. What does everyone think?

Thank you

It’s very hard to tell from that picture. You could either hone out the chip or push the heel forward. I am presuming that there are no cracks around the chip. Contemplate it. If you do nothing else you have a display piece. It’s a tough call. Either honing it out or pushing the heel forward is a bit of an advanced skill and should not be attempted if you are not 100% comfortable with the process. You could also consider sending it to someone else to do. The is a guy not far from you that is pretty handy.

It is about an 1/8" chip but there aren't any cracks. Thank you, I'll have to think about it for a bit right now I'm happy to have tracked it down.

Being the idiot I am, I damaged my great grandfather's razor at the heel, first it cracked then a huge chip happened

The chip was much bigger and went on more inwards. I grounded the entire heel off and am left with almost half a blade (horizontally and vertically ), but hey it's still usable and that was my goal at that time.

In comparison this is a very small chip, if you plan on shaving with it, I'd grind it off; if not I'd leave it as is.

I often use my DMT for heel corrections, works pretty well.

To start I'd only grind the small outer part flat and parallel to the edge , it doesn't seem to be that much work, but I'd try to remove the least material possible
It's not really grinding out the chip, but grinding out the outer part up until the chip


Good luck

Thank you, I think I will try that as a plan.

There is an old thread with many example of chipped and reground blades, the thread is called the butchered blade.

I found it, thank you.