Thread: Gotta project

What i am hoping is that someone can give me pointers on how to deal with this blade without ruining the inlay on the blade

I am pretty inexperienced, just finishing my second razor (wade and butcher)

My routine is hand sanding, starting with 150 emery paper to clean up marks/rust etc, then work up through the grades with wet and dry.

Is goldwash,not inlay,even mild polishes will remove it,are great razors tho

so just carry on as usual and polish it off then?

Your pics are not good enough to tell what has to be done,If it all disapears it has zero effect on the blade but from a restoration aspect thats a differant story,Starting with 150 as you say you do,it will all be gone in a heartbeat.

its not actually too bad its more in the tight corners at the base of the blade and the top.what I could try and do is leave that part of it and clean up the areas that need cleaning up only.

That what restoration is all about,try to preserve what you can for future generations,Keep us posted.

Hi!

Well I may be in the minority as I start with a high grit (3M 2000 Wet-n-Dry) just to see what’s underneath.

(If you’ve ever seen Mel Brooks movie ‘The Patriot’ you may remember when he told his son as they prepared to ambush the British; “Remember what I told you? Aim Small; Miss Small”. I find the same about cleaning up a razor. Please note that I didn’t say ‘restore’ a razor.

The counsel about the gold wash is spot on!! It will disappear faster than food in front of my 20 year old son!!

From the pictures it appears that the rust is at the pivot, use the 2k and water and slip the sandpaper under the scales and work it up/down/back and forth.

The rest of the blade doesn’t appear to look bad at all!!

If you are insistent on polishing the blade and saving the gold wash one of the members has posted about using plastic electrical tape and carefully cut it out to cover the wash and then polished the blade.

Personally I wouldn’t try it since you are so new to cleaning up a razor.

Please keep us posted!

For the life of me,I have never understood how one can use elec, tape to mask of the gold wash and than sand the blade.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

For the life of me,I have never understood how one can use elec, tape to mask of the gold wash and than sand the blade.

I don't understand either! However I've seen pictures of it done and they (the blades) were nice! Just as with everything else about shaving from with a straight razor to honing to making brushes there are those who have a 'gift' that others only strive to achieve!!

Just a general tip. If you want to sand only precise parts of a blade, sanding paper ist not the best to use. And to mask with tape can work but its difficult. I get much better results with so called "polishing stones"
Those are synthetic stones similar to normal wet stones, made of Aluminium oxyde. They are used with petrolium. The available Grits go from 150 to 1000 and you can shape the stones on a beltgrinder to give them the same radius as the blades hollow ground has. You can get very precise results with it.

cheers,
Ulrik