Thread: What Can I Do?

Hello, looking to take this razor I got from whipped dog and give it a makeover. Was hoping to grind away the black bumpy stuff...which has red rust underneath and possibly grind of all the etchings (exept the one on the blade if it keeps it's look) and polishing it to a mirror finish. It's not a fancy razor or anything but I wanted to try my hand at fixing it and possibly later throwing it into a new set of scales to make it look nicer, this is also why i want to sand off all the etchings from the company and whatnot so It would have more of a custom look minus the standard make of the blade. Their is some rust at the pins, the scales are starting to produce a filmy gunk (maybe scale rot), all that ugly black rust above the bevel and a tiny black spot just under the bevel which i can't seem to hone off on the 4k. Looking for any feedback on what to do with this as it's the only blade I have atm and I want to make it look nice

I did a similar thing with my first razor, I used micro mesh (basically super fine sandaper) to polish it up by hand. I would recommend staying clear of grinders as they tend to be tricky and if this is your daily shaver you dont want to risk recking it. Maas mettle polish also comes up quite regularly on here though I have never used it. A q-tip could get into the area of the tang around the pin, and as long as you go slow and gentile you should be able to keep most of the blade engraving if you are so inclined. If you haven't checked it out some of the articles here are great help as well Category:Blade Restoration - Straight Razor Place Wiki. Have fun!

Thanks bro, I been reading the hand honing guide for a while and decided to go out to my local auto body shop and pick up some 3m wet/dry sand paper ranging from 400-2500 (about 8 different kinds) as the gentlemen recommended for the type of wear on my blade. He even polished 1 side of my blade with some 3m polish they had to show me what their polish could do but I wasn't very fond of the results or price (16$ for a little tub) so I think I will sand it for now than hit up wally world for some Maas if they have any *fingers crossed*.

Lol thinking about picking up a pad for my dremel to use with the maas for a super shine but not sure yet.

Originally Posted by LikesBBS

Lol thinking about picking up a pad for my dremel to use with the maas for a super shine but not sure yet.

I would recomend NOT using a dremel...but that is just me....
All it takes is 1/100th of a second and your blade could be RUINED!

Using it to polish with a fibre pad not to sand... lol put the mas on a cloth dremel head and polish with that. That can't ruin it can it o.O?

Unless you catch an edge and shatter the blade or have it fly out of control or smash into the ground.... Nah I wouldn't worry about it...

Chipped the blade near the bottom, edge is thinning alot >.< i can actually push on the edge now and it moves out lol.

Should I keep shaving with this razor? breadknife the chip out?

What to do here fella's

The edge up to a cm in is so thin atm than when i push my fingernail on 1 edge i can see it through the otherside >.< is this blade ruined?

Well im usually a fan of doing the least invasive thing first, in this case the chip seems relatively small, so i would put several layers of tape on the spine and take it to a course hone. This will (hopefully) solve both problems. I can't remember exactly the math but when the razor is overly wide for its thickness is when you get that flexibility. In order to fix that problem you will have to reduce the blade width. So hone out the chip (or yes bread knifing works too but I would reserve that for larger chips usually) and see if the flexibility fixes itself.

I would say the blade is history JMO