Thread: It can happen to anyone

So I began a restore project a while back on a Torrey 5/8 full hollow grind. I had cleaned up the scales to their original luster. Granted, they were celluloid so they weren't too dirty, but they cleaned up pretty well. Then I began to polish blade. All done by hand. After lurkin on the workshop section and the restoration pages I read horror stories of a slipped dremel or a sliced open hand and took extra precaution not to let that happen. So finally, today after 2 months of work and handsanding from 100 grit to 2000 I finally picked up a jar of Mothers and began the final polishand buffing... Took the polish and made a nice light coat, and could already see myself in the blade, then tried to buff for tha perfect mirror finish... Replaying the threads in my head of letting the blade run away, I was overly cautious not to let that happen. Then it did, I caught an edge on the tissue soft edge of the buffing pad and... Demolished the razor, obliterated the blade, sent shards flying everywhere. Luckily I was wearing a face shield and deflect about 3 pieces to the face. But after thinking it wouldn't happen... It did. So moral is, don't try to be too perfect, sometimes done is done. I'll post pictures when I get done crying and grieving.