Finally, a restore for me!

[daflorc]

Pretty much all my restores have been special orders or have been going up on Ebay, but I just got this blade in the mail yesterday, and it was so pretty I just had to keep it for myself! I spent all morning restoring it in horn with a brass-lined horn wedge, keeping the original shape of the scales. It's a Lord & Harvey, circa 1817-1831:

 

[Capt]

Beautiful!!

 

[86-foxtrot]

Wow, what a beauty. It looks brand new!

 

[pmaster]

Wow, I sure can understand why you kept it!

 

[whavens]

That is a wonderful job. How bad was it when you got it?

 

[daflorc]

It wasn't in too bad of shape when I got it - phenomenal shape actually, with some surface rust and a little of the original mirror polish peeking through. Which is crazy for a blade that old. This razor has new custom scales, and the blade only saw 600 grit greaseless and higher.

 

[Sando]

I was bidding on that one, too.
You did a real nice job on it. Those scales look classy.

 

[Doc226]

Junk, send my way for proper disposal.


Nicely done

 

[CanonSterVa]

Very nicely done.
Great restore.

 

[gumbo]

That's gorgeous!

 

[Coaster88]

Really beautiful work

 

[alpster]

Sweet finished product! Great work! Eye candy for sure!

 

[mdunn]

beautiful!!

 

[PapaFish]

It looks great! Did you really do two different polish levels on the blade, matte on the uppers and front, and near-mirror on the blade, or does the first picture just make it look like that? Very classy. The Brass/Brown Horn combo looks very nice.

 

[daflorc]

Thanks for all that guys, I really like this one. Papafish, it's the same polish all over - its very nearly a mirror finish. Was easy to do, as the blade had very little rust, and incredibly, much of the original finish was intact - which was a true mirror polish. Incredible that they had the knowhow to do that back then, and today, we struggle with it!

 

[Brooksie967]

Those pics don't do it justice, we need some better pictures of that gorgeous razor!

 

[kontinu1]

Nice job!