Thread: Now that I am the proud owner on an ebay junker... what do I do?

Got this for a song... and a jig… and maybe that was too much… chipped edge, warped scales, rust, pitting...














Do I…
1) Restore by honing out the chip(s), shine, Rescale and place in rotation where it will happily live out its days cutting culling generations of whiskers.
2) Sentence to a life of “cutting edge" experiments witch could result in its utter destruction or the discovery of the cure for “razor cancer”.
3) Tale a photo of the razor “half closed”, list on ebay, and charge a hidden $24 shipping fee to the lucky winner.
4) Place it in the spare parts razor drawer and forget about it… next time I pick it up, the chips will gone, the scales will be straight and I will wake up saying… “Oh… thank goodness it was only a nightmare”.
5) Toss it in the trash.

Having trouble deciding… please help!

She can be saved - it's not that bad!! Whatever you decide to do, don't throw her in the trash - if it comes to that just PM me and I'll give her a good home!

A little elbow grease and some TLC is what she needs....maybe some fancy custom scales....

Man! You can chop a lot of meat with that badboy! Nice score.
Sorry I don't have any more savvy advice to give

If you are going to give up let me have a go at it or just work at it slowly and patiently. Wedges are very salvageable.

If the edge has not degraded deeply with rust and it's just a chip then
It looks very recoverable to me. I might ask for some help with the scales as they look worth saving as well.

- Bob

1!!!

That's a great blade! Very fix-er-up-able!

That is not in bad shape. I tore into my 7th blade restore today (home sick) and it was rusted much worse than that and had a similar chip in the edge. I sanded out the edge and put 5 hours of sanding into it. Tomorrow I break out the polishing compound and finish it up.

Originally Posted by cannonfodder

That is not in bad shape. I tore into my 7th blade restore today (home sick) and it was rusted much worse than that and had a similar chip in the edge. I sanded out the edge and put 5 hours of sanding into it. Tomorrow I break out the polishing compound and finish it up.

WOW!!!... Looking at that blade I am now encouraged to do battle with this one, hopefully i can turn out something looking close to yours… Thanks Cannon.

Many thanks gentlemen... I really appreciate the encouragement.

Hmmmm… it seems this razor will have a pleasant future after all, depending on my skills.

The going will be tough; The blade is three quarter inch (6/8), the chip is about 1mm (little more than 1/32") in depth and the blade has an almost imperceptible hollow... put a straight edge across the blade from spine to edge, and the space at the belly is less than 1mm.

I am less optimistic about the scales though, not just bent, they are deformed, like someone left it on a hot stove for some time and the plastic lost its shape.
After I de-pin this razor I will have a closer look the scales and decide weather to repair or replace them.

Does anyone do these old scale replicas?
If not, I may try manufacturing a pair in the laboratory.