Thread: My First Restoration Attempts

As I posted in my thread here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/begin...erience-8.html I am starting to have an interest in restoring old razors and in particular Wade & Butcher razors have caught my fancy, as well as other Sheffiled razors, though W&B are the primary ones. As such I have picked up a few from Ebay and will keep an eye out for others.

Here are my first few razors:
Manhattan Cutlery Co. "The Celebrated" which I am attempting to polish up. I intend to continue up the grit scale all the way to 2500 and see how it turns out. After that, I guess I should use some metal polish and the rotary tool with a buffing wheel?

Before 150


After 150


Here are a couple more I got. A W&B Invincible (with the scales) and a W&B Bow Razor with a bit of a frown. For working out the frown, should I just take it to my DMT 325 until I get the blade profile back? X-strokes with extra pressure at the heel and the toe and no pressure in the middle? This would come after polishing it up, I imagine.









I will, of course, spend as much time reading about this in the Wiki and other places as I do actually working on it, but any particular advice on these blades is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Jack