Restoring rusty old straight razor - Restoration project

Times restore another straight razor. These are great projects for restoration. Some of you didn't like that the original handle was not used in my fist 2 restored rusty razors. I wanted to see if I can save the handle on this one. I always think no more razors because I literally spent hours and hours sanding the hardened steel, but I still always seem to do more of these...
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As I started disassembling the blade. I had a little trouble because the pin was stuck due to all the rust. I tried to grind down one end of the pin and hammering the pin out, but I didn't dare to hammer very hard as the handle could break and this time I really wanted to use the old handle. Luckily I have the small precision drill. I managed to drill a hole straight in the middle of the pin but the drill also pushed the pin partially out so I didn't have to drill all the way through. Now I was able to take the blade off.
I dropped the blade in rust remover for few hours which got most of the rust off. There was a lot of pitting but nothing unfixable. Razor blade is no this it easily rusts all the way through. While removing the rust I noticed the "backbone" (I think that's what it's called) was detachable. It used to have some sort of plating, I think it was nickel because there was no copper plating underneath. I decided to use my plating system to replate it because I can and it's not very too much work and it really work well. I actually left the squeeze lighter shell wet overnight after plating to see if it would rust but it didn't
After the rust was removed I just sanded the pitting off. Used rough paper until the pitting was gone and then moved to wet sanding and finally I used metal polish compound and wool wheel to give it the final mirror polish look.
For the handle, as mentioned, I wanted to use the old bakelite(?) handle. I washed all the dirt off but it was still very scratched. I figured my best bet are car polish products. I used fist a polishing compound. It is essentially a coarse paste that gives the surface a a fine sanding. For even better results I continued with a resin polish compound which to my understanding gives the handle very thick resin coating which fills tiny scratches.
After both the handle and the blade were finished it was time to attach them. I used a thin brass pin, identical to the original one. Finally it was time to remake the edge. I did it last to keep the razor safer while I was working on it. I taped the backbone to prevent scratching. I used a diamond sanding plate. I also did a it of stropping off camera to get the edge really nice.
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