Thread: Greaseless compounds time consuming

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Bingo !!

Those of us that restore professionally can read a blade in an instant, and know exactly how far we can take things, for every beauty that you see pics of,,, there are at least 3 more that were just cleaned and honed are a just shavers...

Great stuff Glen,you know your stuff for sure without question.I think some people get a little over the top between the fine line of preservation and restoration, two differant animals,two entirely differant meanings.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

And you will also destroy in the process all the sharp edges with flap wheels.
These razors were pricision ground with surface grinders (the flats)
Is best done by hand IMO.

The only sharp edge that you remove with the flap wheels is the shaving edge, but if your razor needs some serious resto, that's fine as you would have had to hone it to begin with. Other than that, flap wheels are great at evenly resurfacing the blade (as long as the pitting isn't too deep for anything but a regrind) without reshaping it. That's what we are looking for in the first place. I have had great results with them in the past and will in the future. Just a warning to you newbs: The best you'll get out of a flap wheel is a slightly rough satin finish, that you will still need to polish with RBD's or use the Jay Lee sanding drum method to get anywhere close to mirror.

In the hands of an expert a flap wheel may have some use.
Am no expert so My prefferance is to do what few razors I work on all by hand over alot of time.
As far as sharp edges you have the edges of the tang, the Jimps.the nose of the blade,You see so many restos that have been ruined by power tools.
They have there place for sure but like the dremels,one can do alot of damage in a very short time.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

And you will also destroy in the process all the sharp edges with flap wheels.
These razors were pricision ground with surface grinders (the flats)
Is best done by hand IMO.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

In the hands of an expert a flap wheel may have some use.
Am no expert so My prefferance is to do what few razors I work on all by hand over alot of time.
As far as sharp edges you have the edges of the tang, the Jimps.the nose of the blade,You see so many restos that have been ruined by power tools.
They have there place for sure but like the dremels,one can do alot of damage in a very short time.

The jimps only with a wire brush. I haven't noticed any appreciable rounding of the tang edges from using flapwheels, whether it was on my initial restorations or later work.

Here's how it's done, with one note: This particular razor never had filed jimps, so it was ok to use the flapwheel there and this was just one of 3 passes (I believe it was 240 - I'd do 120 - 240 - 400 before moving onto different methods). Not my youtube page but the member in question was nice enough to post the video for me. Please note that you always wanna rotate it away from the edge or you can end up losing an eye or more importantly, damaging the workpiece.

or you can end up losing an eye or more importantly, damaging the workpiece.

LOL!! Yes, we must keep our priorities in order!