Quote Originally Posted by Del1r1um View Post
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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.
Thank you for a quick reply. I want to keep all of the scales as they were my great-grandfathers. There actually is some scale damage on the Davide Collini razor, which is the second one from the bottom. It looks like somebody (maby even great grandad) tried to tighten the blade pin and did some filing on the area between the pin and the very end. I will probably do this one last and pull that pin to repair the scales.

David