BIG PROBLEM: The gimping. How do you deal with that?
I hate jimping (gimping is something else I won't go into here) for the most part but what I do is get some dental tape/ribbon (the wide dental floss, see pic below) put a pea sized blob of Autosol or equivalent metal polish on your forefinger, pinch with your thumb and draw the dental ribbon through the polish to get a good foot of it covered. Gently clamp the razor in a vice, jimps facing up, and do a see-saw motion on the jimps. When you get comfortable being able to keep the floss/ribbon in one jimp at a time you can build up the polishing speed and it's fairly effective. You can also use a toothpick in the same fashion using the length of the pick.