Thread: Wade and Butcher resto thoughts.

First throw the cigarettes in the garbage and you'll shave with it a lot longer and healthier. (running and ducking for cover)

That one looks rough right now. Do a metal polish on a paper towel and see how much improvement that and some elbow grease can give you. If you buff or sand it ... put it in a tumbler, you'll lose the etch. One of those can't have your cake and eat it too situations. I like to leave them as is unless they are really bad.

By 'as is' I mean cleaning as much as I can with metal polish, q-tips and paper towels. A buddy of mine that restores takes 10 hours to sand a razor to ready for the buffers. He does it while watching TV he told me. I don't watch TV and sanding 10 hours ain't my cup of tea. I'll take the patina over that.

Is the toe a little bent? If so can u bend it back?

Glen,calm down your gonna have a stroke here,Jimmy.smoke your pipes,esophogeal and mouth cancers (prevalent amoungst Pipe smokers,cigar smokers and chewers will kill you just as dead as cigs.
Hone the sucker,just shave with it.have a nice day

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Glen,calm down your gonna have a stroke here,Jimmy.smoke your pipes,esophogeal and mouth cancers (prevalent amoungst Pipe smokers,cigar smokers and chewers will kill you just as dead as cigs.

If it ain't that it'll be something else. I'm just a pilgrim here .... when I go it'll be home.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

First throw the cigarettes in the garbage and you'll shave with it a lot longer and healthier. (running and ducking for cover)

That one looks rough right now. Do a metal polish on a paper towel and see how much improvement that and some elbow grease can give you. If you buff or sand it ... put it in a tumbler, you'll lose the etch. One of those can't have your cake and eat it too situations. I like to leave them as is unless they are really bad.

By 'as is' I mean cleaning as much as I can with metal polish, q-tips and paper towels. A buddy of mine that restores takes 10 hours to sand a razor to ready for the buffers. He does it while watching TV he told me. I don't watch TV and sanding 10 hours ain't my cup of tea. I'll take the patina over that.

When using a metal polish like mothers etc with q-tips/paper towels, is there any worry of removing etching?

Any thoughts on the blonde horn scales? looks like there might be some worm damage but they're still 'functional' in the fact that they aren't broken and the pins are still tight.

Best thing for horn is neatsfoot oil. You can find that at a saddlery if there's one nearby. You can wipe it on, but the best thing is to just let them soak in it. After they have been oiled, you'll have a far better idea of what kind of shape they are in.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Best thing for horn is neatsfoot oil. You can find that at a saddlery if there's one nearby. You can wipe it on, but the best thing is to just let them soak in it. After they have been oiled, you'll have a far better idea of what kind of shape they are in.

I've done this with two w&bs and a J.elliot and it works great....just a little wiping off after letting them soak for 24 hrs or so and they look 'healthier'. I'll also add a +1 on the metal polish....especially at the pins. With a little rubbing, they'll turn nice and brassy. The blade, however........I say they're already scratched, the etching's too faint.....go for a nice shiny finish! I'm happy with my W&B 8/8ths that way, but w/ the J. Elliot, the patina was just too smooth, consistent, and had that "I took 180 years to look this way, get the hell away from me" look to it

Originally Posted by brooksie967

When using a metal polish like mothers etc with q-tips/paper towels, is there any worry of removing etching?

I've done a many of them and never even 'scratched the surface of the etching' ..... no pun intended .... So no, with normal metal polish and a paper towel , plenty of elbow grease ( that's free) no worries for the etching.

Thanks for all the tips! I'll try to get a better picture of the scales up sometime soon so I can get advice on those. The soaking in oil method seems good but i'm not sure if they are too far gone!

Originally Posted by brooksie967

Thanks for all the tips! I'll try to get a better picture of the scales up sometime soon so I can get advice on those. The soaking in oil method seems good but i'm not sure if they are too far gone!

This might give you a bit of an idea about the restorative possibilities with neatsfoot oil. Look especially at the pics of the pivot end of the scales before and after (scroll down). That was the result of soaking in oil and sanding, repeating that several times, and nothing else. Other than oiling and sanding, the only thing I did to the scales was to retouch the paint in the lettering.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...rket-find.html