Straight Razor Repair?

[radrick96]

Dear friends,

Received these today. Wanting to clean these and get them restored. Maybe a nice case for all of them. What’s the best way to accomplish this? I’m very excited to join your cut throat club!


Razors:
HM Christensen/ T. Noonan & Sons Co x2
HM Christensen/Warranted x3
Wester bro’s/no.22 x1
Diamond/Germany x1
DublDuck LIFETIME x1

Scissors:
Ben J Safford/Cantonite Solingen Germany x1
Supercut 22/Detroit x1

Hone:
Swaty Razor x1.5

 

[totorlekiller]

Hi and Welcome.
It all depends on what you are trying to achieve. Most of the razors you got are pretty clean and only require a modest clean up.
I'd recommend starting with one of the ones at the top that require very little work. Just swab the scale with alcohol, and polish the blade with very fine sand paper (something like grit 1200) and then get it honed.

If you have more appetite and want something nicer than the plastic scales, you can work on the one at the bottom. The blade seems reasonably clean and you can either craft new scales or get a kit on eBay.
Check the threads on Restoration sub-forum.

Restoration & Razor Making How-To's.....

A forum for folks to share their knowledge on making razor scales, blades, restorations, file work, etc.

www.badgerandblade.com

For honing, the Swaty stone won't be enough. Those are just used for refreshing an edge already there.
On those blades, you'll need stones to set the bevel (~ 1000 grit) and then progress to something much finer (~10 to 12K grit).
Again, there is a Honing sub-forum with plenty of info on the different approach.

Hones/Honing

www.badgerandblade.com

Or you can just send it out to someone.

 

[ajduplessis]

The second razor from the bottom likely has celluloid rot hence the severe rust on that razor. Discard of it immediately as it will affect the other razors.

 

[totorlekiller]

The scales would have to be disregarded, the blade might be salvageable. You would have to sand it a bit to see the situation under the rust

 

[Ladit]

Most of these just need a little polish, but get rid of the scales like foresaid.