Thread: Restoring advice for a Bengall

Ok so this is the deal I've gotten myself a sweet little razor that I've decided to make into my first restoration project. I have allready started and sanded away all the black spots and all the pitting on the blade and it looks solid in that part now. Although it isnt completely finished through 600 grit and up.



It is a Bengall A-BCL Borlänge Maskinaffär or possibly 4-BCL essentially its a Bengall made for Borlänge machine store. And it fits me like a glove to start with a Swedish sold razor.

It is a 9,5/16 inches or 15mm across the blade and what I guess is a half hollow or 1/4 hollow anyone who can tell from this picture? I know it isnt the best pictures but I don't have access to another camera at the moment.




But the real reason why I post this is because the razor have quite a lot of rust and pitting around the pivot pin and on the tang that is really hard to get out. The pictures is taken after 3 hours of sanding and a bit of Autosol to polish it up and its still really long to go and I think it might be a lot easier if I remove the pin and finish it without the scales.






Also the scales are made of wood and as you can see on the last three pictures they are quite worn and the paint is starting to come of. Do you think it is worth trying to remove them carefully and try to restore them and just replace them if they are too far gone to refurbish or to try and sand them attached to the razor and repaint them?

So what should I do remove the pins and continue after that or just add more elbow grease and continue sanding both the blade and scales still attached to each other?