Thread: Found a Red Imp 133 and c-mon at flea market -- need restore

Hey guys, this is pretty much a duplicate as in the Show and Tell but I really wanted to get an opinion so that I can go buy this c-mon if you guys think its worth it... I bought this red-imp and need someone to restore it for me. Here are pics.. The c-mon has a blade that has a big buldge in the tip, if you will. Looks like itd ruin the blade to try to even it out? Sorry its so blurry.. Other than that, its a lil dirty and would need a tumble and shine and to be honed, scales arent too bad...Old, and not too shiny but still pretty solid.






C-mon

personally i would say no to the cmon... unless the scales are fantastic and you knew where to find a different blade needing original scales.

yea.. is a shame its in such bad shape. booooo i should go try to buy it anyway and talk him down to like 15... since all thats good are the scales it seems on it

You could probably talk him down to a couple bucks since the blade is in such bade shape.. There was a guy, think it was gugi that came up on this really sweet Dorko at an antique shop for $6 and that razor would probably fetch well over 20 times that much.

I've never tried cleaning up scales though so I don't know how well those will clean up.

Just being honest here, ok?? No offense intended

As Jim already said the C-mon is done unless you want just the scales for the future..
I just finished a restore on a Red Imp, in way worse shape, "looks wise", but the edge was untouched, in this thread ....
The thing that I can't tell from the pics is, the spine and edge on yers looks to be wavy, if it is, the re-hone is going to be a bear, and is going to cost steel to get it back to straight.... JMHO here and what I see in the pics....