can you fix a bent blade?
So, I recently picked up an ebay special, and my surprise, the seller through another razor in the box.
I immediately fell in love with the freebie razor. There's just something about the design that really appeals to me, so I set about cleaning it up. No rust, no pitting, but the blade was nearly black.
I removed the scales and cleaned the blade up to a 'basic' level with my dremel. Along the way, I noticed two issues with the blade. Both of these are small enough that I couldn't get a picture that showed them.
1. about 1/4 of the way out from the heal, the edge was folded hard enough to have created a slight ripple on the face of the blade. I've already rubbed this out 90% with a simple wood block, and gotten it down to where setting a enw bevel will get rid of it.
2. The other issue I've encountered is that the blade is ever so slightly warped. When I lay the blade flat on a known flat surface, and hold it down by the tow or heel, the other end is raised off the surface by a small amount. .5mm or less. If I flip the blade over, both ends rest on the flat block, and the middle is raised by a small fraction of a mm.
What I'm wondering is if this is something that can be fixed, and if it can't be fixed, can I hone and use the razor anyway, or should I just let this one go since it was a freebie anyway?