Originally Posted by
khaos
I've been lurking because I'm actually quite interested in this (still practicing/trying resto stuff in the background, just don't have much time) and something that's come up as a pro is possibly switching scales. And something I keep wondering is, unless you make your own scales, or can afford to have changing tastes, how many people actually do switch out their scales? Like I'm sure you custom guys can do it on a whim, but if I had to pay $30 for a set of scales I definitely wouldn't be doing it that often. My other issue is cleaning- and I will say that it would be nice to take apart the scales every year or so to wipe the blade down, but if you look at the 50+ year old razors on the bay, sure some look like **** but a lot of them really aren't that dirty/corroded so I wonder how necessary that is if you take great care of your blade.