Greetings everyone,

I am currently in the process of restoring a Joseph Rodgers & Sons straight razor. This will be my most complete restoration to date, and I'm trying to keep it as original as possible.

This is what it looked like when I got it from eBay. It appears (to me anyway) that the blade was blued at the factory.




After quite a bit of work, I got the blade cleaned up so it looked like this;




Because the original was blued, I tried to blue the blade again using Birchwood Casey's Perma Blue. I've never really used the stuff before, and I'm not sure I like the results. It comes out shiny and the color is nice, except that it is very blotchy.




My question for everyone is, would you leave the blade this way, or just give up an polish off all of the bluing? I found out the MAAS will take it off, so I don't think it will take a lot of effort to repolish it.

If anyone has used the Perma Blue before and had better results, I'd love to know how you did it. This is what the bottle looks like. I followed the directions, but they are not very extensive.