Cleaning Your Vintage Safety Razor

Best4Men.com's Brett Thorson shows you how to clean your vintage safety razor.

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Howto & Style

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• Shaving
• Grooming
• Best4Men

[locodoggy]

Great video. Very informative.

[best4men]

@locodoggy Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I'm no longer focusing on Men's Grooming, and instead computer security (my real full time job). I'll post something here when I have my new channel up and running.

[eyepatchinc]

this is a very expensive cleaning method. sure the results are great, but there has to be a better way for poor folks like me.

[CorCat87]

when he said metal cleaner, all i thought of was Seinfeld (thumbs up if you know what episode)

[best4men]

@123zoranche123 The purpose of this video wasn't to increase the value of this safety razor, it was to explain how to clean it it. If you have an expensive (antique) safety razor, you can use this tutorial to clean it. There are used safety razors on the market that are worth hundreds of dollars.

By the way, you don't need to capitalize You and stupid is spelled wrong. Please improve the quality of your future posts here or they will be deleted.

[best4men]

@MrControl735 That's true. The purpose of this video wasn't to increase the value of a safety razor, it was to explain how to do it. This way, if you have a really expensive (antique) safety razor, you can use this tutorial to clean it.

[best4men]

@Basketball80 Yeah, Vinegar is pretty cool at cleaning all sorts of stuff.

[best4men]

@eyepatchinc Yeah, there are. If you follow the links I posted on the page, you will find some other options. This however is the safest route (in the case of precious metals or plated metals). I wouldn't recommend Comet or toothpaste as they sometimes have abrasives in them. If you just want it clean (for use) then these would be OK. If you want to polish it for display (and / or use) then I would suggest looking into the more expensive products.

[best4men]

@123zoranche123 Sure, if your goal is to just shine a razor, then it would be cheaper to buy a new one. However, this video was demonstrative of the process you would go through if you wanted to restore an antique razor, or possibly a family heirloom. In these cases, it would be the individual item that is precious, not just the attainment of having any DE safety razor. Thanks for the comments.

[best4men]

So the use of comet or some other abrasive is what I was trying to avoid when I wanted to clean this razor. While there was enough pitting on this one that it didn't make too much of a difference, I wanted to make sure that anyone cleaning a razor that was plated wouldn't use this method and really mess up their razor. So yeah, doing it with vinegar, hot water and abrasives will work, but I think the metalwax does a better / safer job.

[eyepatchinc]

@Basketball80 right on. Thanks for the tip! I will try this