Thread: Lazy Man's Restoration

I found an old Taylor Eyewitness "The 1000" razor yesterday in an antiques shop. It was in pretty bad shape - rust everywhere - but it seemed like it could be brought back to life, so I bought it. One nifty thing about it was that it had its original tin. Rusted too, of course.

Anyway, I intended to do a full restoration on it - get it back to its former glory and all that. About 2 hours in to the hand-sanding I thought bugger this. So I got rid of the major rustal problems and took it to 600 grit. That was about another 1/2 hour's work.

Then I just blued the whole blade (chemically). It came up really very nicely. Very nicely indeed actually. Surprisingly nicely in fact. If you like that sort of thing, which I do. I guess it is not to everyone's taste (else there would be a lot more blued blade pictures on the forums), but I really like this one. It is a nice shaver too.

Anyway, i lacked the foresight to take before or during pictures unfortunately. And I lack the skill and patience to take very good photos. But here is a rough photographic representation of what it looks like. It actually looks better in the flesh.




James.