Thread: Yet another Question?

So today .....(Yes i think I have the RAD)

I found this one today.
Its a GRIFFON Carbo Magnetic 60
my question is there is a small nick in the heel end of the blade
can this be honed out witout losing that much metal?

Heck yeah it can !!!!!
Rule of thumb for nicks etc:
If it is contained within the size of the bevel then is should be no problem to fix....UNLESS there is a crack also...

Well, "too much" is a pretty relative term, but since the razor looks to be in good shape overall, I don't see why it couldn't be done. Somebody posted a green lizard a while back that was so rusted out you'd have thought it was beyond hope, and they managed to make a serviceable razor out of it.

That being said, you'll have to remove enough metal so that the edge moves all the way back to the deepest point of that chip, so it's a pretty decent amount of metal. I'm sure someone with more experience could help you with an attack plan. Just putting it on the hones would take a very long time.

This looks like a bread-knifing candidate to me.

What Glen said & tapering the rear flange a little so it sits flat on the hones.
There's already obvious contact.

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

Well, "too much" is a pretty relative term, but since the razor looks to be in good shape overall, I don't see why it couldn't be done. Somebody posted a green lizard a while back that was so rusted out you'd have thought it was beyond hope, and they managed to make a serviceable razor out of it.

That being said, you'll have to remove enough metal so that the edge moves all the way back to the deepest point of that chip, so it's a pretty decent amount of metal. I'm sure someone with more experience could help you with an attack plan. Just putting it on the hones would take a very long time.

This looks like a bread-knifing candidate to me.

Yes I saw that green lizard, I think im going to send this one out to have done .
Thanks guys for looking
PS- What is Bread-knifing???

These razors are really nice shavers. This is one where I would use a piece of electrical tape on the spine and do sets of 20 circles in both directions on a Norton or Naniwa 220 until the nick is gone. Once gone 10-15 X strokes on the 220 and then to the 1K for clean up and final bevel prep. After this, you should be good to go with your normal honing progression.

Enjoy,

Lynn

Bread knifing is more or less drawing the edge of the razor back and forth across the side of a hone, and though the razor is a breadknife, and the hone is a loaf of bread.

The idea is that if you have a razor with an uneven edge, or badly chipped edge, you can simply remove the whole edge very quickly, preparatory to setting a new bevel.

If done right, it will correct previous bad honing and get past chip very quickly.

Thanks veedubb on the word of the day .
and Thanks Lynn maybe I can send this on to you PM me with a price
since I dont own any honeing equipment yet except for a swaty I just won on ebay.And you did such a great job on the last razor I sent you.
thanks again