Thread: Wasting my time?

Hi Guys,

This is a Boker blade that my wife got off of ebay for virtually nothing. It looked a little rough but it was intended as a blade I could practicing honing and cleaning without endangering the blade I use to shave.

So far I only have a couple hours into it and I wanted to know if it's a waste of time to continue on it. I have a feeling it is. My concern it the dark spots along the edge. I'm assuming that it is pitting and the blade is shot unless I want to grind the edge up and turn it into a much smaller blade. What do you guys think?

I rather like the vintage look to the blade so my only concern is whether I can get a decent edge to it. When I got the blade the edge looked like a hacksaw. What you see now is after I ran it over a whetstone I have for my pocket knives. I just wanted to clear enough away to see the edge.

Hi,

There seems to be some wear in the bevel and edge. Looks like it needs some work, but i think it is worth trying.
At first i would set the bevel and treat the edge with a coarser stones also hone the pitting away. Only after that get into finer stones.
You'll find lots of detailed info from Wiki.

If it was me I would hone on the edge first until I got to good steel or OTOH, found that the pitting was causing the edge to fall apart. If you can get to good steel you've got something. If not whether you want to practice sanding an polishing just to be doing it is up to you. If the pitting is superficial in that area you'll get to good steel otherwise you'll have holes and chips all through the bevel where the pitting is.

+1 what Jimmy said, I would give it a shot, either you hit good steel or you save the scales for future use.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

or you save the scales for future use.

Unfortunately the scales broke on both sides near the wedge during shipping and then snapped again near the pivot as I was taking the pin out. I'm not too upset over that as we only paid $2 for this razor.

Thanks for the input though guys. I'll read up on honing and setting the bevel on the wiki and see if I hit good steel. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed.