Thread: Start of first resto!

Images all resized and re-upped. Sorry about that. Apparently my phone takes gigantic pictures! Hah.

As for it being a high-end razor, if you would believe it, it's the cheapest one I could find that was in rough condition. I would have rathered something a little junkier to start on, but it's all about the dollars. Hopefully I don't botch things too bad on it!

I really took my time with it, paying attention to the direction of rotation to the blade. I found with the wheels, aside from doing a kind of final buff to it, it's best to use the edge and just work it in strips. The oil did a good job of keeping things cool and smooth, but because it was sanding fast, it required quite a bit of wiping and re-applying of oil. I'm not too sure why it wore away the small little frown at the heel, I wasn't using excess pressure or rolling the edge, so I can only guess that it had been previously thinned down.

I was also having a bit of difficulty getting into the grooves at the heel of the blade. Is there an easy way to get into there with sandpaper?

Well, I decided since I still had some free time today that I would look up how to unpin. So I got that done and did a bit more clean up on the razor. There is a bit of pitting where the scales were covering, but I'm not entirely sure that there is much point in cleaning that area up, as it's just going to get covered again. What do you guys think?