Thread: How to further polish this beauty (Bartmann)?

What a BartMann..........

Kinda speechless right now...

Originally Posted by Stropper

Have you looked at this thread? http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...mentation.html

the tumbler will not remove the pitting.
The only way is to to take it to the wheels, or partially remove it by hand sanding.

Beautiful razor! I'd say clean it with soap and water and get her honed up! Use it for a while and then decide which you would like more, a polished blade or the etching. There's no getting the etching back once it's gone but you can always polish it up some day.

Good luck.

LEAVE IT BE.


A cautionary tale...

That's a beauty!

My shortened Bartmann gave a fantastic shave, real nice!

Like Lynn said, a dremel and Maas might help, but it might wipe out your etching on the blade. Hard to tell how deep it is from the pictures.

I would just use a Q-tip and some Maas on the parts around the etching. You won't get it all out, but I would wanna save the etching on that, and to do that, I think you'll have to forget about getting a mirror finish on it.

I'd say leave it with it's battle scars and enjoy it.

The only way you're going to get that razor to look better is if you put it in my collection.

honed it, shaved with it, fell in love with it.

I have never, ever, shaved with such a fine razor. I didn't know you could get such a comfortable shave, seriously. I couldn't wait to share the news here

It's incredibly smooth, I feel like I shaved with a flippin katana or something lol, unbelievable. It's extremely hollow too, I usually dislike that, but this guy, wow, my new king, I highly doubt I'll find anything better than this. I barely felt I was shaving, and my chin area which is always hard, just fell off out of fear of that huge blade lol. The only places where I'm not BBS is where I forgot to shave

But just to make sure: IF I DO NOT POLISH IT FURTHER, will it rust fast, or is it OK to leave it like this in this respect (don't care about the look of the blade, it is always covered in soap anyway, but I want to preserve the etching)

Thank you for feeding my RAD.

And by the way, congrats, that is an amazing razor!

+1 sparq

Glad to hear that you just honed, polished, & shaved with it. Even happier that it was as good a shaver as it is a looker.

Personally I just run the blade under the straight hot water, towel dry, hit it with the strop about five passes & put it in my cup of razors that stays on the counter-top. If I get water into the pivot area, I dry things out with the hair dryer. No rust problems at all for me to date. If I take a razor out of rotation, I do oil the blade & pay extra attention to the pivot area.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Maybe send it to Max to restore

+1

Plenty of excellent razor-restorers here!