*NOTE* I would never sell a razor that was painted or replated in any manner without fully disclosing that fact. I had really been wanting a long-handled Super Adjustable, and on a recent jaunt to some local antique stores, I found a pretty nice one for only 5 clams. Unfortunately, even though the nickel polished up pretty nicely, the handle looked fairly lousy, so I thought, "Why not paint it?" I just wanted it to look decent, but it ended up looking far better than I could have imagined. Here's the pictorial of how it all went down... In its original state... Some careful masking... After a nice coat of gloss black arcrylic followed by a high gloss enamel clear coat... A comparison to an original condition short-handled Super... Which one's which? Hard to tell, huh?
Is that a can of spray, or did you mix it and use something like an airbush? Looks great by the way. You did a very good job.
Great idea -- thanks for posting it! I have a long-handled SA as well that could be helped with this treatment.
Those look like the metal versions, I think there were plastic handled ones later. Looks great. Nice work! Time for a story... I bought a super on ebay. I had one already, but it showed wear in the black, so I was looking for a nicer one. I found one on ebay that looked nice from the terrible pictures, so I asked the seller if there was any wear to the black area of the handle. He said no, it is all good... He was a liar I received my razor literally colored with a permanent marker. You could totally tell, and he did a bad job, there were actually marks from where he bumped the adjuster with the marker. This looks way better than marker. :happy102