Thread: Pitting...

Santora,
You hadn't posted the pics when I wrote my first post... Others will give you more experienced opinions but I believe you'll have a hard time getting all that pitting off the blade... You started with a very rusty razor... the ones I've restored have a little spotting of rust here and there on the blade.... but frequently more rust on the tang and monkey tail then on the actual blade... One had a lot of pitting on the spine... that is still better then on the actual blade... At least i don't see so much on the edge.... Let others give their opinion ... but I don't think you can remove it all without designing a completely different razor ... like one of your previous respondents talked about... so I'd maybe remove a little more.... polish it up and use it as a personal shaver and remember your first very hard restore!!! You picked a blade with a lot of rust..... I was lucky enough to ask a few people... Hey is this ok for a first restore?? No.. no... no....that's way to much rust.....otherwise I'd have attempted one just like that.... I thoght that was the idea....remove the rust and make it shiny..... Maq

Originally Posted by Maq

Santora,
You hadn't posted the pics when I wrote my first post... Others will give you more experienced opinions but I believe you'll have a hard time getting all that pitting off the blade...

At the time you asked, I only had that picture I took before I worked on it. The other pictures I took, after I started this thread and you requested.

But no, there is no pitting around the bevel. It's all on the face. And from all the honing, I've got a mirror finish on that edge.

But I still only get a shave no better than a Bic disposable. I've been at it for days, now. Restoration is easy compared to honing.

That's a whole other ball game. I'm going to have to look though all those honing videos again, and re-read some things. There's obviously something, I missed.

Other than that, I am putting together a nice collection of razors, including a Boker extra hollow ground. And I've got a few other practice blades, which I might be able to make something out of.

I'll be showing them off soon. Especially the Boker. That blade is in beautiful shape but one of the scales is crack at the pin. The scale with the tree is intact.

Thanks for the input.