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06-25-2011, 02:52 PM #1
3 Razors, want to clean them up myself
Was wondering if i could ask a little advice?
So what we have is 3 german razors, a Tuckmar, looks to be a 5/8 extra hollow, possibly a singer, another stamped Garantie Solingen with "finest silver steel, extra hollow ground, made in germany" etched on the front and like a diamond engraved pattern on the spine (although it looks to be somewhere between 1/2 and 1/4 hollow based on the SRP chart), and a Silver Ring 1027, 6/8 and dead on half hollow. All round points.
All have hone wear, the least being a mm the worst being maybe 3 mm flattening of sides of the spine. This doesn't bother me too much as i think they're all sharpenable and to be fair they were owned by a friends grandafather who had them for 60 odd years and only stopped using them 3 years ago when he passed away. The hone wear seems pretty even in terms of being symetrical on both sides, and consistent width down the length. the tuckmar is perhaps the worst for wear
There doesn't seem to be much rust, just staining and darkening, and what rust their was rubbed off. Today i got some warm water with kitchen cleaner diluted and degunged the scales and as far round the pin as i could. Its going to take more than autsol to polish up the blades though. i did have a good go with it though.
Have read the wiki so i know what grades of sandpaper I need to buy (i have no power tools, so this is all going to be by hand), am going to find a peening hammer because i want to unpin everything. I was going to try filing the pins to get them off, is a set of needle files best for this?
No honing involved yet as it's pointless until they're clean and i can't hone anyway. Not sure if they just need a good honing with a 4000/8000 or something similar or whether they need the bevel reset.