Thread: Need advice on a possible trade for .

Originally Posted by pfries

As far as where to hone someplace distaraction free at least to start and a comfortable working level, I used the kitchen counter after young ones were in bed and still do.
The scales can be fixed, there are a few methods, search it on the sight and try what sounds like you are best tooled for.
Most of all enjoy, restoring them is a big part of the pleasure and do not be afraid to ask questions.

You misunderstood. I meant to ask where can I send the razors for honing? I am not set up for honing myself yet. As I said, just a newb trying to get my feet wet with SR shaving. I think the Dovo may need to be honed. The other two seem pretty good. As far as doing some minor honing at home, just for rolled edges and not setting bevels or anything like that. Can I buy an old barber's hone? I see them in antique stores often I know a place that has at least a dozen of them for sale. I just wish I knew how to select one. They are all vintage barber hones and look pretty good to me, but what do I know? I would like to have one that I can use to just touch up things that result from stupid mistakes like slicing a strop or hitting a scale with a blade. Newbie mistakes, you know. I'd like to be ably to hone out minor stuff and if I totally screw it up I would like to know a person/place where I can send the razor to be brought back to shave ready state.

Sorry for the confusion. I have two kids and know full well to pick a quiet part of the house to hone. After they are asleep.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I actually wouldn't trade, myself. I hate vintage razors with scale issues. Especially when the blade is poking through the scales. I know they are all fixable problems, but I really don't like messing with vintage scales and risking breaking them.

If I were you (if I had a DE of value which I didn't want to keep), I'd wait for stuff that doesn't need any work. (Unless you are comfortable doing the work, which I'm clearly not.)

I hear you and I was of the same mind, however I am a big sucker for learning to work on things. This is somewhat of a challenge and there is only one razor that actually has a blade sticking out. The other two are fine if a little warped in scales. I've been wanting to learn to rescale and all that, just not at this moment. Right now I just want a good shaver to learn on. To that end I have purchased a "Sight Unseen" razor from Larry at Whipped Dog along with his "Poor Man's" Strop kit and an extra strop. The razor he sent me is actually very nice, so maybe that's the one to learn on. It has no scale issues at all. However when I tried the Heartring it felt better to me, more comfortable. RAD has kicked in, I guess and this time I can satisfy it with a trade instead of the cash outlay. I just wanted to run the razors by this community and get an idea of what I am in for here. Now I know that the scales can be adjusted a bit on the Heartring I am not too worried about it. In fact, the way it is now is fine, only visually imperfect and need to be careful closing the razor to not hit the scale. The Dovo needs honing and the Ton-So-Rius needs something done with the scales to conceal the blade fully. I feel myself getting drawn into the restoration/repair frenzy. Now I need to figure out where to buy supplies... Darn! All I wanted is to learn to shave with a straight...

Thanks for the opinion, though. I am glad to have both sides.