I went yesterday to antique/salvage type shop near me that had a load of pretty cheap old SRs a while back, but they'd been selling quite a few, so I wanted to pick up a couple of what was left. I came away with; a Bengall with some rust around the spine, and a 'Wilheim Weber' which I'd never heard of before, and there doesn't seem to be much info about out there. Meh... it looked alright, and was in pretty much untouched condition.
I gave it a very light sand with some 2k WnD:
And then decided to try honing; Naniwa Superstone 3k, BBW, Jnat Asagi.
I tried for quite a while to set the bevel on the Naniwa, but didn't really get anywhere. Another member pointed out to me that it looked like the razor probably had effectively a 100+ year old factory edge on it, and I might need to go lower. So in the end I used; King 800, King 1200, a Willunga slate because I decided I wanted something wider than the BBW, and Shoubudani Tomae:
This took longer to set the bevel properly than the previous time I'd done it, because I don't think the razor had been honed before, but it wasn't difficult. And after a while a got to a bevel and edge that seemed like it'd be pretty good to go onto my Asagi to finish:
During all that I was reminded of how much I dislike honing a razor with a long, scaled, hinged, handle. So I decided to remove the not-very-nice plastic scales, and make another fixed one. Here's the first time I did that: A Razor Restoration Project (with a slight twist) - https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/a-razor-restoration-project-with-a-slight-twist.613813/
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TBC...
I gave it a very light sand with some 2k WnD:
And then decided to try honing; Naniwa Superstone 3k, BBW, Jnat Asagi.
I tried for quite a while to set the bevel on the Naniwa, but didn't really get anywhere. Another member pointed out to me that it looked like the razor probably had effectively a 100+ year old factory edge on it, and I might need to go lower. So in the end I used; King 800, King 1200, a Willunga slate because I decided I wanted something wider than the BBW, and Shoubudani Tomae:
This took longer to set the bevel properly than the previous time I'd done it, because I don't think the razor had been honed before, but it wasn't difficult. And after a while a got to a bevel and edge that seemed like it'd be pretty good to go onto my Asagi to finish:
During all that I was reminded of how much I dislike honing a razor with a long, scaled, hinged, handle. So I decided to remove the not-very-nice plastic scales, and make another fixed one. Here's the first time I did that: A Razor Restoration Project (with a slight twist) - https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/a-razor-restoration-project-with-a-slight-twist.613813/
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TBC...