Steve56
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1. My personal experience is that you will still have a pitted blade after the best that can be done. You won’t know if it will look better until you try. Not all of it will be deep, but some of it will be deep.
2. If it’s clean it probably is inert. Try a hobbyist fiberglass brush to clean out the pits then put some Renaissance Wax on it. It will likely be inert then.
3. You deal with that by honing - you’ll have to get to sound metal at the cutting edge just like any other rust.
4. If this is your first restore, I’d go the fiberglass brush and Ren Wax route. There have to be many razor/knife ‘mechanics’ in Japan that could refinish it as best it can be done. If you decide to proceed, I’d at least get some advice from a knife/razor finisher.
Good luck!
2. If it’s clean it probably is inert. Try a hobbyist fiberglass brush to clean out the pits then put some Renaissance Wax on it. It will likely be inert then.
3. You deal with that by honing - you’ll have to get to sound metal at the cutting edge just like any other rust.
4. If this is your first restore, I’d go the fiberglass brush and Ren Wax route. There have to be many razor/knife ‘mechanics’ in Japan that could refinish it as best it can be done. If you decide to proceed, I’d at least get some advice from a knife/razor finisher.
Good luck!