Thread: My Newbie W&B Ghetto Restore - PICS!

Ive been meaning to update this thread for awhile. Thanks for all the feedback. I will heed the advice about hand sanding - I guess next time. I personally like the look of the minor scratches. It adds to the aged quality of razors as old as these. I know many people want and aim for perfection, but its interesting to look at in a different way that a perfectly restored razor. I guess it comes down to beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Im going to be sending the barbers notch out to be honed soon. Once it comes back Ill repin and take some more photos.

thanks again for all the input!

You might want to check with your honer of choice first. AFAIK, most want the scales on the razor for honing.

In addition, you don't want to be trying to install scales on a shave ready razor for your first pin job IMHO.

Great work so far.

It wouldn't matter to me whether or not the blade had the scales on it when honed. But for the sake of the edge, re pin and then hone. Did you ever figure out if the tortoise was real or not?

Excellent work and a great thread - I'm looking at buying my first 'proper' blade and finding this forum has been a real bonus.

I'm only 30 mins from Sheffield, so will be trying to recover a 'local' product!

I'll keep checking back on this thread as I'm intrigued by the quality of the 3 blades you bought and how you progress them to 'shave ready'.