Thread: Nice find in a Gettysburg, PA antique store and a razor restoration project

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Barbers and some shavers sometimes slightly rounded the square points to make them a bit less likely to accidentally nick the skin while shaving. Those points have been more radically altered than what I've normally seen but could be honed up to be fine shavers.

So then it's worth the time and effort to restore them to become shave ready? I did make a set of scales for the Geneva out of some Cocobolo wood. Again, I want to remove that "notch" and make it a round toe. It'll be a great learning process for razor restoration. The store I got them from had a few more that I would like to buy for more restoration.

After I finish the polishing, I will butter knife the edge and round off that toe and follow SRP's wiki on blade restoration to hopefully make them shave ready.