I agree with Ron. It will be a lot of work but you will be killing two birds with one stone and getting a great razor in return.
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Here is a good guide from the SRP Wiki help files. It is an excerpt from a 1961 barber manual on honing and stropping. Illustrated with drawings showing what they consider an ideal blade profile and how to get and maintain it on the hones.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/srpwi...t_-_Honing.pdf
Firstly, thanks to all who have shared their positive comment with me on this project.
I have attached a couple more photos as I (think) am ready to start honing to see if I can make this little baby a razor and not a razor shaped object....smile.
Would anyone hazard a guess as the material that the scales are made of and what would be appropriate to polish them with?
I appreciate JimmyHAD posting the link to the barber manual. I hadn't seen it on the wiki and, believe me, I have spent a lot of time looking at stuff there to try and get a handle on things.
I will let you all know how it goes.
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Geoff
Well, I got the blades honed to a reasonable shaving edge.
Thanks to all who made suggestions.
Attached are some photos of what I started with.
They are both straight now.
Cheers,
Geoff
Well done Geoff, good to hear you got there in the end.
Stu
Nice to hear you dealt with the problems, it is very good learning experience.
Congrats.
Looks like you've sorted your edge profiles.
The black scales I would guess are bakelite & celluloid for the yellow. If so, sanding the black will yield a brown dust. The other will smell like camphor when sanded or rubbed briskly. There are many plastics polishes around but the Novus 1,2,3 system is claimed to be safe for those 2 types. On the odd chance the black scales are horn they will sand to a lighter coloured dust & smell like wet dog :)