Thread: Restoring with minimum loss

This is kinda the catch 22 of restoration!

To remove any pitting or rust or marks you have to remove some steel, and unfortunately when you do that you'll lose maker stamps, gold wash and other etching or engraving. And the shallower the etching, the faster it'll disappear.

Glen restored a razor for me last year which had shallow engraving and he got a really great finish on it and kept the engraving, but he knows what he's doing!

I'm still learning and the blades I'm cleaning up by hand at the moment, I'm having to take a trade off between finish and keeping the engraving. I'm happy with the results but they're not totally mirror finished.

Given that the razor is precious to you I wouldn't go for a full near mirror polish as you'll possibly remove any engravings at the same time. I'd just clean it up as best you can with MAAS or other metal polish and leave it at that.

Careful with the MAAS as it'll take gold wash off if you have any!

The other option is to send it out to someone like Glen or Max who knows what they're doing and has the skills to restore it properly.

Hop that helps!