Cleaned up my first straight You know you can't live without 'em!

[prsman23]

Well, completely forgot to take before pics, but I can assure you it looked like your average antique store find. No rust or anything, but a good amount of patina. Did all of it by hand, which is rather tedious, and think I should probably do more, but I can't wait to shave with it! Without further ado, my very humble first try at restoration.

 

[Doc226]

Very nice, love the spine.

 

[prsman23]

Thanks! That's actually why I picked it up.

 

[kirk 988]

very nice sweet work whats the make?

 

[prsman23]

Cleveland cutlery company.

 

[Kentos]

Great job!

 

[drocu]

Looks great, Jay! Nice camera work too.

 

[Uncle Brian]

I just like everything about that razor ... a thing of beauty.

 

[mdunn]

You did a great job!

 

[ouch]

Oofah!

 

[tomjr]

very nice

 

[coachschaller]

did you hone it up yet?

 

[prsman23]

Thanks guys! At least know I feel like all those hours didn't go to waste. Coachschaller, not yet! I'm going to get a junker to practice that on sometime. I feel like this is my baby and i'd be sad if I screwed it up! Plus I don't think i've read enough about honing to really know what i'm doing. The lapping film will get some use though! Thanks for the awesome PIF!

 

[BakerAndBadger]

Great finish and nice reflection of your iPhone!

 

[prsman23]

Haha! Yeah, better a reflection of that than my ugly mug!

 

[Trudo1]

Did you un pin & re pin that bad boy ?

 

[prsman23]

I did not. Being my first attempt really didn't want to un pin and repin. I will be doing that on the next one though!

 

[Obiwan]

Nice job Jay, sure came nice and I love the spine.

 

[jred]

What progression did you use?

 

[prsman23]

100 120 180 220 320 then
Micromesh up to 12k then Maas