Thread: When to do a re-pin

Originally Posted by Alembic

Ok, here is the first of my "pick your brains" posts.

Before I do any initial cleaning on my great-grandfather's razors that I posted, I was wandering how do you gentlemen decide to pull the pins and work on the blade separately from the scales? Do you always pull them irrespective of how much polishing you are going to do on the blade? Do you ever buff the scales while the blade is still pinned?

Here is the post from the Razors forum. Which ones would you pull the pins on?

Thanks in advance oh gurus of restore.

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From your pics, I wouldn't pull any of them unless there is something wrong with the scales that we can't see (severe warping or cracking on the other sides for example)

Those scales look nice enough to not risk ruining them by unpinning and the pins look pretty good from the pics. you will be able to get the tangs and stuff clean and bright by using things like floss and those little dental floss/plastic pick things. And you should be able to clean those scales up pretty easily either with really light buffing or hand polishing.



For sure, I wouldn't be pulling the pins on the first two. I might pull the others but only if I just wanted to make some scales I liked better than the originals.

That's my take anyhow.