Thread: L. Lowe Co restoration

So this one is my first restoration, I spent several hours today polishing the razor and then an hour or two getting that huge nick out of the blade. This was my first attempt at really taking a nick out, let alone one that big. I did it on my course DMT, like 300 some grit, with tape on the spine that had to be changed fairly frequently as it was getting damaged through the process. Then afterwards did about 15 laps without tape on the spine on the 1200 grit DMT.

For polishing it I used a progression from 120-180-220-320-400-600-800-1000-1200-1500-2000 all by hand with the little rubber things from woodcraft that I got yesterday. I think they helped out a ton - I never tried it without them, but it didn't seem to take all that much time and I was able to get into some of the more difficult areas with them. Then I used some of the jeweler's rogue that came with my dremel (thought I'd try it) and then some MAAS with the larger polishing wheel on the dremel. I did that before honing out the nick in since I knew I was going to have to take a lot of metal off the edge afterwards.

I think it came out fairly well and I did note that the edge is a bit warped while honing, the heel is a little more difficult to get to sit on the hone on both sides and the toe on only one side sits slightly off the hone.

Now I need some scales and I was thinking of seeing if I could find someone to do an acid finish on it (even though I already polished it) to see if it brings back the laminated look of the metal that can still be faintly seen on it. After that final honing should finish it up

I did learn to NEVER use the dremel drum on the razor as I did this on the tang of the razor and it left some really deep scratch marks that would've taken forever to get out. It's way too course. They can still be seen on the tang after all of the polishing.

Nice looking patern in the steel... but to shiney /ducks...

Nice and shiny!

Cool pattern on the blade!

Very nice job!
I just hope that mine gonna look as shiny as yours...