Thread: Restoring etched blades

I recently picked up some old blades off e-bay to try doing some restoration work on. There all pretty tarnished so sanding looks like it'll need to be done on most of the blades to bring them back but I've got an old Wade & Butcher Bow and Wostenholm Pipe that I don't want to sand because of the etching on the blades. Any suggestions for cleaning with out damaging the etch? I've got both Lynn's and Bill Ellis's disc's but there's not really any info on this issue.

Moved to the workshop where us restoaholics hang out


For etched I have never found anything better for them than a tumbler..

This thread explains it in detail

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...mentation.html

But do some browsing here, http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...wers-here.html


We compiled quite a bit of info about restoration...

There is also a Link to the restore section of the Wiki

Brilliant in it's simplicity. I'll have to look into picking up a small tumbler from one of the local gun shops. Maybe I should look into putting some of my homebrewing tactics into my restoration efforts (using one thing for something else). But hey, I'm still new to all this but thankfull that I stumbled on the forum. Thanks for the advice as well as the links, it'll save me time poking around for the info.