Thread: My first restoration

I got this Wostenholm from Ebay back in May or June. It had tarnish and rust on the blade and broken scales. I should have gotten some "before" pictures, but I had relagated the razor to honing practice and only recently thought about restoring it.

I used black acrylic for the scales and NiAg pins.

Question: If any of you have used acrylic for scales, how have you rounded the sharp edges? I used a sanding drum on a Dremel, but found it really hard to get the edges even around the scales.

This was really fun. I have a couple more that are shave ready but need new scales. I'll be back.

Looks great! Excellent job on the scales.

As to rounding the edges, it takes practice. Usually you'll be more accurate if done by hand. Personally, I use a 1" x 30" belt sander from Harbor Freight which works great, although its a bit cheap

Looks good! The black acrylic has a very clean, crisp look; the finish on the blade looks very even and clean.


Welcome to a whole new level of razor obsession.

That looks wonderful. I am facing a broken scale at the pivot pin. I plan on rebuilding it with an epoxy instead of redoing the whole scale because the scales are too nice. I will have to literally make the piece out of epoxy but it will be better than replacing.

Matt -

There is nothing wrong with cheap I got the acrylic for less than $1.

On your belt sander - It should work fine for the convex edge, but how do you get the concave edge? I seems like the scale would touch only the edges of the belt.

Thanks,

If you havent got a belt sander, scraping a steel ruler along the edges at a 45 degree angle isnt a bad trick. Followed by some sanding and polishing
A dremel sanding drum can be hard to control.