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Rusty eBay Heljestrand - look and comment please! (how to clean)
Restoration wizards and journeymen,
I bought this razor on eBay and it has arrived with a blanket of light rust-dust and two or three darker spots. I took these photos before I spent about 5 minutes accidentally breaking the scales off trying to remove the pivot pin and sanding the blade with 600 grit paper. The edge is straight and consistently jagged.
I have two questions:
Do you think a 1000 grit norton will be coarse enough to reset the bevel or would it be a waste of time (aside from the learning experience of course)
Do you think the rust can be banished from the blade for good, or do you think it's doomed to be rusty without permanently and drastically altering the blade?
I'll take another photo or two later of what it looks like since I destroyed the scales (which looked pretty scary) and sanded the blade. I like this thumbnail feature.
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Half an hour or so of sanding
Just posting some update photos for anyone who is interested. I sanded the blade down for about 5 minutes with 600 grit, but it basically only served to clean the dirt off of the blade. I had some 400 grit handy and spent about 20 minutes on it, and here on some photos.
It's Sunday, so I might go get different grit paper today, or I might just sit around the house and act lazy. The last two photos are of the biggest rust spot on the upper toe of the front side of the blade before after 5 minutes of 600 grit, and then after 20 more minutes of 400 grit. You can see the spot clearly in the first photo in the original post of this thread.
Suggestions still welcome. The light rust between the jimps poses a difficulty I have yet to overcome.