Thread: Looking for Restoration materials...

Can anyone point me towards resto. materials. I want to start restoring some of my older razors with bad scales. Also looking for things to help clean up the blades and put a mirror polish on. Are the rust erasers' I see at highland woodworking and the likes any good? Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks and God Bless!

I believe you can buy new scales and pins from classic shaving.com

Originally Posted by ndw76

I believe you can buy new scales and pins from classic shaving.com

Cool, Thanks! God Bless! Ray

Sandpaper, from 100-2000
MAAS and/or Flitz metal polish
1/16 Brass and/or Nickel Silver rod
#0 washers in Brass and/or SS
#0W washers in brass
Scale making Material, ie: Wood, Acrylic, Micarta,etc:
somthing to cut the material into shapes
A drill/Dremel
a small ballpeen hammer
a set of wire cutters

This alone can restore most razors...

After that you just make it easier on yerself by adding power tools...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Sandpaper, from 100-2000
MAAS and/or Flitz metal polish
1/16 Brass and/or Nickel Silver rod
#0 washers in Brass and/or SS
#0W washers in brass
Scale making Material, ie: Wood, Acrylic, Micarta,etc:
somthing to cut the material into shapes
A drill/Dremel
a small ballpeen hammer
a set of wire cutters

This alone can restore most razors...

After that you just make it easier on yerself by adding power tools...

I was hoping to find local sources for some of these things (bolded in the quote). It's not easy. Does everyone just order things online or are there retailers I'm just not figuring out?

Recent trips have included:
Lowes
Home Depot
Hobby Lobby
Michaels
Walmart
Colpar Hobbies

I found 1/16" brass rods at Hobby Lobby and a horrible "Jeweler's hammer". At Home Depot I found a larget 8 oz. ballpeen hammer but that seemd a bit big. Is that too big for this sort of thing?

I don't know where to even try after this (Ace maybe) for the washers. Maas and Flitz being MIA is the most disappointing. I didn't think I was going to have to order that on the web.

Any tips on types of stores that I might not have thought of at this time (like my mom telling me Glycerin can be bought at baking supply stores) would be appreciated. Heck, even pointing out the (probably already noted elsewhere) online dealers would be awesome.

Walmart sells Maas.

The 1/16 rods if lucky you can find at your local hobby store. If you don't have one like HobbyTown then it's going to be online.

The washers online.

A small peen hammer can be found at Michaels. I've seen them. (doesn't mean your local Michaels holds it)