Thread: Cheap Non-Shaving Restoration

Don't write it off as a bad shaver just because it's from Pakistan. True, nowadays, anything that you get from Pakistan on some place like ebay today is mass produced garbage to try and trick people, but if thing is old (and it looks like it) it could actually be something that was used to shave at one time and was sold way before the dawn of the internet (in which case they weren't producing these things to export, they were probably producing them to use in their own country) possibly even made by another company and just stamped "pakistan" for location's sake.

From the pictures, it's not stainless steel, as I'm pretty sure much of the blades on ebay from pakistan are. It might actually hone up!

I will be floored if you find me a "Pakistan" straight razor that will shave....

These are notoriously poor shavers due to the quality of steel that is used to make them.
It's unfortunate but true. New, old, what have you. The 'Pakistan Challenge' has never been accomplished (getting a bbs-shave edge) in the years I have been in this. Many have tried......
Some have claimed to have gotten the edge, to only have it dull in the first pass.

Anyway. As for removing the scales, that has been covered here many times over as well. Do a search here on 'Pin removal', or something along those lines.

Don't sweat messing up these scales. If they do break, I am sure there are people that will be more than willing to donate their Pakistan razors for you to work on. (Almost everyone has fallen for the poor picture, one razor in the group, in experience, Pakistan razor acquisition....)

Good luck and keep at it! Cleaning up the blade to the level you did is one of the hardest (time consuming) parts.




C utz

I haven't messed with the Pakistan razor anymore. It's nice and clean enough for the purpose of practicing a little and then just hanging there.

I just picked up a straight for $12 on B&B. No pictures but the description said it had a little corosion and maybe a little pitting on the blade, but that didn't effect the shaving ability any. That's right, I got a shaver. New thread when it comes in. I've still got a ton of sandpaper leftover from the paki razor.