Thread: Second Restoration Attempt - Joseph Rodgers wedge

Originally Posted by MykelDR

Another one for the bagman! Looks nice mate. Great job
BTW.. How did your first end up shaving?.. last I heard you were halfway through honing?

Mykel

Thanks Mykel. The George Wostenholm is great - I love it! My first blade was the Dovo 5/8 I bought and the Wosty is a 6/8. I think I prefer the 6/8. It sounds different and feels different and just gives a really nice comfortable shave. I'm alternating one each day at the moment.

Nice Job Bagman. I'm very fond of the Rodgers make, especially the wedges.
If you can bring it over I'm happy to help you along with the honing. PM sent.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Nice Job Bagman. I'm very fond of the Rodgers make, especially the wedges.
If you can bring it over I'm happy to help you along with the honing. PM sent.

Thanks again Onimaru55. I'm looking forward to meeting up.

Beautiful work mate.
I know what you mean, un-pinning allways makes me sweat too.

I like it, great job.

What did you do to the blade? It could just be the camera but it came out exceptionally nice.

dang. that is one good-looking razor. nice work.

Originally Posted by Visibility

I like it, great job.

What did you do to the blade? It could just be the camera but it came out exceptionally nice.

Thanks for that. 180 grit, 220, 300, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000 and then back to 800, 1000, 1200, 1500 & 2000. A few callouses. A few cuts on the blade edge despite trying to be uber careful. Then about 2 hours polishing with a metal polish while I was watching a DVD. So literally blood, sweat and tears. It did come up nicely (but not flawless like some of the examples I have seen here) but it was an effort.

I have a similar Rodgers wedge in ivory, found on the bay last year.

It came as a 6/8 near wedge (Henckel scale II perhaps) but had grind marks all over with a couple of black patches, which lead me to think that it may have been a regrind.

Im no expert at restoration by any means, but ive hand sanded to mirror polish a few other blades and the Rodgers was definately the most difficult. I started on 80 grit and had to drop to 40 just because it was so tough.

I reckon Rodgers just have harder steel than any other Sheffield ive restored so far including a Frederick's Celebrated and a Hall & Fielding, the latter which I still cant find any info on! (Anyone heard of Hall & Fielding btw)

But Im glad to know Rodgers tough steel is consistent!

And beautiful job on the resto. shame about that crack. I didnt have the balls to unpeen mine. what i do instead to get at the tang under the pivot part of the scales is to slide sandpaper underneath which seems to work. I place the razor in a vice and use two hands to slide the sandpaper across underneath. Takes alot more time though!

Originally Posted by Scipio

I have a similar Rodgers wedge in ivory, found on the bay last year.

It came as a 6/8 near wedge (Henckel scale II perhaps) but had grind marks all over with a couple of black patches, which lead me to think that it may have been a regrind.

Im no expert at restoration by any means, but ive hand sanded to mirror polish a few other blades and the Rodgers was definately the most difficult. I started on 80 grit and had to drop to 40 just because it was so tough.

I reckon Rodgers just have harder steel than any other Sheffield ive restored so far including a Frederick's Celebrated and a Hall & Fielding, the latter which I still cant find any info on! (Anyone heard of Hall & Fielding btw)

But Im glad to know Rodgers tough steel is consistent!

And beautiful job on the resto. shame about that crack. I didnt have the balls to unpeen mine. what i do instead to get at the tang under the pivot part of the scales is to slide sandpaper underneath which seems to work. I place the razor in a vice and use two hands to slide the sandpaper across underneath. Takes alot more time though!

Thanks. Glad to know I'm not the only one who found it hard to sand one of these. The worst of the corrosion was actually on the spine of the tang directly above the pin and below the level of the scales, so almost impossible to sand out without unpinning, well, impossible with my basic level of skill that is. Anyway, this one is now honed up (thanks to Onimaru55) and I've had a few awesome shaves from it.