Stupid Mistake = Chipped razor

[daverojo77]

the beautiful I found while antiquing last week is ruined.
I feel like a horses ***. So I was polishing it up a little with my dremel tool and it slipped with the metal rotating part of the dremel making contact with the edge of the razor. Is my 12 dollar Gem gone? I was thinking if there is nothing I can do I would use it to practice honing.

 

[rockviper]

That's a shame, but not a total write-off. Provided you're okay with a narrower blade, take it to a coarse stone and you can remove that chip. The good thing is that it is a shallow chip, not a deep one or a crack.

 

[Mick]

This is why you find some many 4/8 razors on the market now

 

[daverojo77]

It's also time to look for another, this was my first blade and I never got a chance to use it. I started a thread a couple of days ago and based on the advise on there I'm reaching out to Larry from Whipped Dog (where I got all my brushes from) and getting a sight unseen with a strop. he's got a double strop for 25 bucks. Plus Larry is great to deal with. I see myself learning to restore / honing these things eventually. I'm going to start out with a 2 razor rotation as per advice of a member on here.

I'll try and remove the chip eventually. What a shame though.

 

[oakeshott]

I did a similar thing with one of my old razors. It had a big chip in it and I was terrorizing it with the DMT 325. Ended up cracking the edge about a half inch in from the heel.

 

[buca3152]

Breadknife that guy. That looks like 2 hours to breadknife and set the bevel. Maybe 3. If you have a 325 dmt. If you are using a 1k, I have no idea.

 

[Giant Kiwi]

I think breadknifing might be a bit extreme.
It'll hone out

 

[Wid]

I think breadknifing might be a bit extreme.
It'll hone out

Same here, I hate breadknifing.

 

[suits123]

Ouch! That is quite the "chip" more like a gouge lol. Good luck with the fixing!

 

[mdunn]

Glad to see the sensible anti-breadknife crew got here!

just one that puppy normally and you'll be fine

 

[johnmrson]

That will hone out pretty easily. Not too much damage done.

 

[tomjr]

hone it out.

 

[Lynchy]

Ouch

 

[Artimid]

Cut it in half and make it shorty? ^_^ Not enough of those out there.

 

[rickboone1]

Just hone it out. No big deal.

 

[daverojo77]

Hey thanks for the words of encouragements I decided to use a stone I bought from a hardware store a long time ago and went at it. I used tape on the spine and honed for about 2 hours.
I'm very happy with the results plus I have a very sharp razor. What do you guys think it work huh?

 

[Wid]

The chip is gone but do you think it will shave well?

 

[PapaFish]

The edge looks good. You will just have to take it up through the ranks. It's definitely lucky that you wound up with such a wide/shallow chip! I have honed out a couple chips that were deeper than that, not a lot of fun, but the good news is both wound up being excellent shavers . Good luck!

 

[daverojo77]

No clue, I have some razors coming in the mail so I can shave with them. At least I'll know what a razor should shave like.

 

[Doc226]

Very nice, very few razors actually require a BK