Thread: Mishap

After hours of working my W&B over with sandpaper, I took the rotary tool to it to polish it. One moment of inattention and I got a 3mm nick on the edge. Useless!!! At least I can use the scales for another razor.

PWNED!!!!!!!!!!11!!!

That stinks, man.

Oh snap!

That sucks man, sorry.

Thats why I have been so reluctant to spend much time with my dremel. I started on a razor that didn't have a future and could see just how fast you could ruin one. So now if I do polish with the dremel, I stay clear of the edge and do that part by hand.
So sorry for your loss.

Glen

It was bound to happen sooner or later. A restoration still goes tits up on me once in a while. It is still a pain when it happens. Especially after so many hours of work. I ruined a nice Bengall a few days ago.

This is why I prefer doing as much by hand as I can. The polishing is quite effectively done by hand too. Only takes a bit longer than a dremel but you have no way of ruining a razor if you do it by hand.

My restored blades I hand polish the faces. The tang, spine and tail I do with a wheel but the faces are hands only.

Vlad is 100% right. Most razors can be polished and cleaned up by hand without having to worry about ruining the edge and the time difference isn't really that great as long as you have the correct polishing equipment. I've used the dremmel but I also stay away from the edge because it doesn't take much.

A couple months ago I was working on an Eboy special and I had gotten it just about perfect scales and all but I just had to use the dremmel to make it better and just as I was about to finish it up my son inadvertingly hit my arm and you know the rest of the story. That was a $40.00 razor almost completely restored in the trash now.

And don't forget when you use that dremmel ALWAYS use good eye protection because if that edge breaks off its like a magnet to your eyes.

The bad luck kept on coming. I decided to end it on a positive note, so I worked my 2 shavers over on the coticule a bit. Put some nice edges on them, cleaned'em up, took them to the strop and, ofcourse, I nicked it. Fortunately a rub with a pumice stone and strop conditioner fixed that problem. Not my day I guess.

Power tools allow me to make twice as many mistakes in half the amount of time.

LG Roy

Hand work lets me catch most of the mistakes before they do any damage to the razor.

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

After hours of working my W&B over with sandpaper, I took the rotary tool to it to polish it. One moment of inattention and I got a 3mm nick on the edge. Useless!!! At least I can use the scales for another razor.

In another post I said that I use $2 magnets from Sears behind my blade. It pulls the blade flat into the surface of the magnet, and as long as you don't let the edge protrude beyond the magnets, it and you are protected. You can hold the magnets or stick them to a metal surface, like an anvil, and work with two hands. Using the magnets I can work as close as I like to the edge without worrying about the direction of dreml rotation.