Post by fram773 on Feb 6, 2016 22:31:25 GMT -6
Quite a while ago I was nearly attacked on another forum for suggesting this. People must have thought I was pulling some kind of malicious 4chan crystal prank. They thought that this could "damage" the razor. Laughably, sellers will often post unplated brass razors and say "there is some plate-loss." Evidently, their buyers are just as uninformed. Obviously they have never taken a shop class.
But there is a way to restore some of these razors that existed before GEM Bullet Tip days. Razors that include the Clog Pruf, OCMM, GEM Junior, 1924, and a few others. They where originally plated in gold but the knowledge of plating was not so advanced back then that it completely washed off. I have only seen one OCMM, from another board member, with gold plating actually somewhat intact. The rest are nearly always unplated because the plating washed off a long time ago. The razors that have survived till today where plated in nickel and then gold. Gold does not last when plated on brass directly.
Anyways unplated brass razors can be found readily at extremely low prices since people look at them and see they look like grungy garbage like the following razor:
Those are the sellers pics. I bought that razor for $5. I took some steel wool (a brass and/or steel brush are helpful as well. all of which can be easily found cheaply at Menards or Home Depot).
Here it is after a little bit of cleaning:
A little more cleaning:
A little more and it will look like new. From then on it can be maintained with minimal effort with liquid polishing compounds. Using brasso and the like will not work to get out what we started with.
But there is a way to restore some of these razors that existed before GEM Bullet Tip days. Razors that include the Clog Pruf, OCMM, GEM Junior, 1924, and a few others. They where originally plated in gold but the knowledge of plating was not so advanced back then that it completely washed off. I have only seen one OCMM, from another board member, with gold plating actually somewhat intact. The rest are nearly always unplated because the plating washed off a long time ago. The razors that have survived till today where plated in nickel and then gold. Gold does not last when plated on brass directly.
Anyways unplated brass razors can be found readily at extremely low prices since people look at them and see they look like grungy garbage like the following razor:
Those are the sellers pics. I bought that razor for $5. I took some steel wool (a brass and/or steel brush are helpful as well. all of which can be easily found cheaply at Menards or Home Depot).
Here it is after a little bit of cleaning:
A little more cleaning:
A little more and it will look like new. From then on it can be maintained with minimal effort with liquid polishing compounds. Using brasso and the like will not work to get out what we started with.