The Straight Razor Acquisition Thread

Try honing it normally at first.

I’m not sure that those are really chips, that blade looks like it has very deep pitting from rust. That could be an issue regardless of the the length of the blade. The only thing to de is give it a try and see if you can get to good steel.

 

I've had many like this. The pitting, can go back farther, and deeper, than you might think. I would "Breadknife" the edge, with a hard coarse stone, not used for razors, until you find clean steel. I have a very coarse Concave stone, that was used for tools. I can use it on razors, for taking off a bad bevel, without the hone even showing a mark. I can also use it to make a slightly smiling blade , because the hone is concave.
You first start with a new bevel. You don't need to keep looking under the microscope, just use the thumbnail, and run it along the edge. When it feels smooth, you usually can then start the bevel(most of the time). Good luck.

 

I thought all you have are NOS Razors?? Do any of your razors even have tarnish?? They all seem like "Beauty Queens".

 

Will give it a try.
Steve's going to hone a Salamander for me (thanks, Steve), so I'll know what to shoot for when I try to repair this "Shorty" razor.

- Bax

 

Ha, I have quite a few! I even post some of them now and then. I have 3 users on the way right now, a Texas Shumate, a French frameback, and a green-scaled Geneva.

 

The 6/8 Austin, TX Shumate arrived and looks pretty good for a pre-1904 razor. Bevel work was done on Shapton Glass 4k and 10k HR, and the finisher was this Takeda ‘maruka’ that CKTG had 3-4 of years ago. Nice kiita color.

 

Great find… I don’t see the Texas Shumates pop up often. Congrats!

 

Thank you Tom!

 

Interesting. I've never heard of a Texas Shumate before. Care to give a little history on it?? Educate us.

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Here ya go Scott:

http://www.strazors.com/index.php?id=814&doc=shumate_s_barber_shumate_razor_co_st_louis_u_s_a_

 

Interesting. I will keep an eye out for those.

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I’m a sucker for a nice Clauss.
6/8” in a beautiful set of scales.
Model 7702.

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Happy hunting.
Tom

 

A picture of this one because it looked like it was the best in my opinion

 

Indeed! Pretty scales

 

Thank you.

 

Two razors and a stone in today. A nice Geneva Pyramid in green scales and. R. Marchant Paris ‘Supreme Tranchant’ frameback. Everything needed work as usual.

The Geneva just needed minor corrective honing, it was a little wider at the heel and whoever owned it before was working on a show side frown. But the Shapton Glass HR 1k, 3k, 10k and the new JNat were up to the job.

The Marchand frameback was easy pie on the pile side, but the show side had two low places in the edge, one near the toe and one closer to the heel. I fixed those with a mellow 325 DMT mostly because the steel in these old French razors is extremely hard. Once the show side bevel side was fixed, it was straightforward.

The stone needed flattening as most used stones do, and the base has shrunk so I’ve got some ‘whittling’ ahead of me in addition to a minor re-finish of the base. Seems to be an excellent razor finisher and I’m looking forward to shaving with an edge off it. Both of the razors in the image were finished on it

 

Me too Tom, but do you have one with a raccoon on it? Rofl.

 

Great question… I might have to check.

 

Someone acquired a couple of NOS Red Imp Razors, at a pretty good price. There were two for sale, at $70 each. I debated on purchasing them, but decided not to.

VINTAGE MORRIS MFG. CO. RED IMP 133 RAZOR SHAVE READY SOLINGEN GERMANY L@@K | eBay

 

Hey @Mike-R41 - welcome to the club! The group of people that Jarrod doesn’t like. It’s large and growing fast! He’s still mad at me for making him take back a mis-shapen, used Tulip 3 that he tried to foist off on me 8-9 years ago. You might be surprised to know that this knot is ‘well within specification’.