Thread: My blades

Hi I haven't posted for ages!
I have these to clean up but no idea how to remove the patina or shine them up, I am on a small budget the orange handle is a solingen razor with 9 stamped on it?
the one below is j.e ev something
below that says OUR 136 on the blade
and the one below says hand forged wheatsheaf works Sheffield

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Wow sorry it should have only sent one pic

Try Maas metal cleaner and some elbow grease, with a clean rag, u will b surprised with the results.. U can also use it to clean the scales if ur not happy with those results it may b time to do some light hand sanding..

As copper suggested, start with some chrome safe metal polish, and clean any gunk off to see what you are starting with. You can go to hobby lobby near the airbrushes, alpha abrasives sells packs of sand paper and micro mesh ranging from 150-12,000 grit, and will cover all your needs. They are wet/dry and reusable., they also sel 1/16 and 3/32 brass rod for repinning, all you need after that is an ace, home depot, or lowes, 4-5oz ball peen hamer. $40 should cover everything I believe.

Thanks, is Maas available in the uk? I don't know which blade is worth saving I also noticed the orange handled one has HAMBURG RING on the blade very faintly

The razor that says "Our 136". May be a JR Torrey from Worcester, Massachusetts. I have good luck with Maas on a rag, be careful to keep the blade edge laying down on a counter top or other surface to protect your fingers.

Originally Posted by Mw1977

Wow sorry it should have only sent one pic

Cleaned it up for ya. Looks like the third one down has a frown ? Might be an optical illusion from the photo angle and the tissue partially covering the edge ? Nice haul anyway.

Not sure, you could check for flitz, any chrome safe metal polish will work for the steel, and buffing compound and swirl remover, that you use to buff car paint will work on the scales. To protect that stamp while sanding, use electrical tape to cover it, and take a razor blade and gently cut the tape as close to each side of the stamp as possible. Be patient sanding, getting in a hurry will only hurt. A trick I use is to use wet/dry paper, sand at a particular grit, when I have gotten all the previous grits scratches out, I go back and wet sand a bit, to give it some polishing action. So , 150 grit dry, 220 dry, 220 wet, 320 dry, 320 wet, and so on.

I'm not sure if it's available in the uk,but I believe amazon can ship it to u, it doesnt have to b Maas there r others ,ie flitz auto sol .. I have never used the others but people have had good results with them