Thread: Are there....?

Are there any Canadian members that restore razors, or members with knowledge of any razor restorers in Canada?

I stopped using my razors a while back (left a job that required me to be clean shaven and went down the beard route), and then the wife and I packed up and moved across the country. The blades were stored in a box in the basement. Long story short... local beavers flooded the river beside us and flooded the basement... unbeknownst to me one of the boxes that got wet was housing the razors... I didn't realize it at the time and didn't get to it as soon as I should have...

There are several.
They will be along shortly.

There are several. I’m probably the most forum active of them. There are others that restore that may actually be closer to . I can send out some emails and find out who that is close to you that is available if you like. Also solicitation on the open forum by guys doing restoration is fairly frowned upon, so PM me and I will see what info I have for you. Of course not all rusty razors can be saved. Post up a couple of pictures.

Good folks on here and an awesome Canadian contingent, always willing to help, Rez foremost among them. I would second making sure your razors are salvageable before getting too carried away. If you're talking restoration, aside from just doing it yourself, I would think a great deal depends on the sentimental value of the razors, not just their replacement value.

Sentimental value trumps cash value always.

If you can, show us pictures. It’s the only way to tell what the nature of the damage is and how badly damaged the razor is. Are the blades rusted? Are the scales toast?

One piece of advice for dealing with rust on the blade that makes a lot of sense to me is to start with the least invasive approach. Often, metal polish like Mother’s, Autosol or Flitz with 000 steel wool will remove surface rust. Only move to more abrasive sandpaper’s if you absolutely have to.

You certainly have some rust on the C-Mon and some spots on the other. Can’t tell from the pics if there is any pitting.

I’d scrape the red rust off with a double edge razor blade - put some tape on one side so you don’t cut yourself. Then use really fine steel wool and a metal polish. You might be pleasantly surprised at how much you can bring the blade back without resorting to drastic measures.

For your own safety, dull the edge of the blade by running it lightly over a wooden cutting board or the edge of a honing stone a couple of times before working on the rust.

I would definitely agree with all of this. Dulling the edge first is a great idea. It's hard to tell, but a lot of that rust, as bad as it looks, may be pretty superficial. If so, a lot of that you can accomplish on your own and, if nothing else, it'll give you a much better sense of what might be involved in saving or fully restoring them.

Beautiful razors though, I can see why you'd want to hang on to them if at all possible.

*UPDATE*

I took some advice from both here in the thread and from some of the PM's that I received. I used a razor to scrape the bulk of the rust, I then used some fine steel wool, then a dremmel with a brass brush, then I used some 600 grit wet-sand paper and some tool oil. I'll get some higher grit paper and then the dremmel with some brasso for my final polish. Is the pitting too close to the edge to be salvageable? NOTE: The glass of whiskey was poured after finishing the razor work for the evening.