(06-18-2023, 01:15 AM)Dave in KY Wrote: Here's the pics to show. The razor received after polishing and some with a stock H plate next to the polished H plate. Pics pulled from my Journal in that section a couple years ago to show as proof. If someone says they maintained the original specs after polishing I don't believe them. The person that polished this insisted they maintained the original tolerances....Proof is in the pictures. Looks beautiful ? YES ! Shaves the same ? NO ! How could it......
There isn’t a crisp edge on that Yates plate. “Anyone who says aftermarket polishing doesn’t change the tolerances of a razor is full of shit or an Instagram Razor Polishing Influencer.” I’m going to reach out to Jake Yates and ask him if he can stop buy and comment on his beautiful razor plate on the left and the burned up plate on the right. That burned up plate needs to be destroyed, no one should ever have that in their possession.
Unless you’re a skilled CNC Machinist with credentials and years of experience in tooling you’re no more skilled than I am with my Dremel Kit.
Anyone who can honestly look at these base plates and top caps that are burned up in these images and say the tolerances haven’t changed are either blind or a moron.
I’ve been watching valuable razors getting burned up the last couple years by polishing not done by the creative Artisan and sold on the BST. Those razors are misrepresented, have no value and don’t shave the way the creative Artisan envisioned. Any buyer of these razors needs to make sure they don’t get back out in the wild and a proper information card be kept on them if not destroyed.
If you think you have one of these razors, base plates or top caps this thread is probably a good start to authenticate.