Thread: First razor restore...Coral 1070

Mornin' guys, so I finally got to finish my first restore. This is a Coral 1070 5/8 full hollow square tip barber's razor all the way from Japan.
I posted this pic in a thread a while back of having to breadknife a few chips out of this razor, and this was the result afterwards (this was also my first attempt at honing as well. The blade still had the sanding marks where someone went to maybe 400 or 600 and stopped, so it had a bit of a satin sheen to it.


Since I wasn't sure how low of a grit this person stopped, I started at 400 and dry sanded to 800, then wetsanded to 12,000 grit. Using a dremel, I didn't have my buffer at this point, I buffed with emory, blending bar, stainless cleaner, chrome polish, then final polished with flitz. The scales are bakelite, I kept the original scales b/c the manufacturer had actually heat stamped their logo into them, and I thought that was pretty neat so I started with 400grit and wet sanded to 12k, buffed with brown tripoli, then final polished with flitz with the dremel and felt and cloth pads.






Pins are nickel silver w/ stainless washers and stainless thrust washers. I peened the pins a little larger to cover the washers and give them a cleaner look. Hope you enjoy. Feel free to comment on my work, advice opinions, I want to get as good as I can at this. Oh, and if anyone could find any more info on this razor please let me know, I couldn't find anything about this manufacturer. Thanks everyone for all the help in completing this project!