Thread: My Favorite Shaver

OK - tried it out on an old junker. I bought the bluing cream rather than the liquid. And I got a bottle of blue and rust remover to apply beforehand. Slightly disconcerting health warning on the back of the remover: "Contains chemicals that are known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects...". The cream just gets applied with a clean cloth. Otherwise, everything's done the same as Josh mentioned.

I did the whole blade. If people are interested I'll post a pic later today. Had to be careful with the entire blade to avoid splotchy-ness (which I didn't avoid on the first coat ). Looks pretty good. One thing to note is that it ruined the edge (I guess because it's acid). Next time I might try taping along the edge...

Oh, and one other thing. I thought that a Wapi with nice blued scales would look great, so I tried the cream on the scales.... For some reason I thought the scales of the Wapi were just carbon steel, like the blade. Nope. Stainless I guess, because the bluing had absolutely no effect at all (although the heads of the pins are now a lovely metallic blue ) .

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

"Contains chemicals that are known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects...".

James.

Breathing, in SoCal, contains the same warning

I'd thought of trying the same thing with the Wapi scales... Now I know better.

I'd love to see pictures of your blade.

Josh

Sorry, the pics didn't come up as well as I'd hoped, but you can get the general idea from these. Need to clean up the scales today....




James.

Josh,

All I can say is Damn! that's a good looking razor. Nice work.