What should I do with this one?

[totorlekiller]

So this is a Le Grelot I bought without paying too much attention to it.
Hey, nice interesting blade and horn scale. Score. Did not thing too much about it and it was pretty cheap.
Now I wish I had spent 5 more seconds examining it and I wonder. What should I do with it.



Any suggestions:
- try to hone it anyway?
- salvage the scales and use them on the few other Le Grelot I have that are still dressed in plastic?
- sell it hoping someone will be as trigger happy as I was?
- start a museum of bad purchase?

 

[professorchaos]

Better pictures possible?

 

[Seraphim]

Hone it up and shave!

 

[totorlekiller]

Better pictures possible?

Same with a bit more light.

Hone it up and shave!

The blade is so slented, I am not sure it is possible. But then again it looks like the honing wear indicates someone tried.
It is dull now, so I can not tell if the effort was succesfull.

 

[Soldierdan]

Oh yea, that can be honed once you get the edge cleaned up.

 

[GreekGuy]

That can still be saved. I actually kinda like razors with smiles like that. Gives them character. I certainly wouldn't go crazy at auction for them, but if I found one for $5 at an antique shop I'd probably pick it up

 

[Gamma]

Nice - clean it up, hone that edge, shave shave shave....

 

[SliceOfLife]

I'd just take it to a low grit hone and grind the toe back until it was a 4/8" deep razor with proper geometry. Double check the spine width at the toe and heel when you're done to make sure the bevel angle will be reasonable.


THAT SAID, I probably wouldn't do the work unless I was in love with the razor. Plenty of razors out there for a few bucks that will shave as well or better without that much work.

 

[Coaster88]

Good candidate for giving it a proper smile

 

[Seraphim]

Plenty of razors have that sort of geometry. The frameback TI 69s have broad tips tapering to wards the heel.

And here is one example of a similar shape that shaves nice.

 

[totorlekiller]

Very interesting concept.
But to make it hone gracefully, I would have to work the spine to be more narrow near the heel.
Not something I have done before, but I might as well get some use of that dremmel.

 

[Seraphim]

Just try and hone it to start with. It got to be that shape from someone else honing it as-is. You don't have to go running off for the dremel right away.