Super Adjustable / Black Beauty

[Dave Deluxe]

A Restoration Question?

I have a Gillette Super Adjustable (Black Beauty) and I've been cleaning it. Unfortunately one of the cleaners that I used has removed some of the black resin finish in sort of a blotchy manner. I guess that wouldn't be terrible if it had removed it all. But since it is blotchy it doesn't look so good.

So my question is, is there any sort of coating / paint or other that I can apply to bring the handle back to it's original black beauty color?

DD

[Dave Deluxe]

Nobody has refurbished a black handled adjustable before???

DD

[Samg1]

Hi Dave,

I'm no expert on restoring razors but I imagine you would need something that can be applied via a spraying method, if it's anything like a paint I can only imagine you would not get a streak free finish. But it would need to be a specialist product and also with use in the water and handling would need a form of strong lacquer to prevent future wear.

I think you would be hard pushed to find something that will refurb to the standard you are after and stay that way after use. I hope I'm totally wrong though and someone can come and advise you with a solution. I just see the handling of it not allowing it to remain intact, would need factory re-finishing I imagine.

If you do restore, do post some pictures along with what you did as I'm sure there are other people with the same issue.

Sam

[Dave Deluxe]

"I'm no expert on restoring razors but I imagine you would need something that can be applied via a spraying method, if it's anything like a paint I can only imagine you would not get a streak free finish. But it would need to be a specialist product and also with use in the water and handling would need a form of strong lacquer to prevent future wear.

I think you would be hard pushed to find something that will refurb to the standard you are after and stay that way after use. I hope I'm totally wrong though and someone can come and advise you with a solution. I just see the handling of it not allowing it to remain intact, would need factory re-finishing I imagine.

If you do restore, do post some pictures along with what you did as I'm sure there are other people with the same issue.

Sam"

Actually I would likely want to use something I can brush on. Prehaps with a small brush like is used with model airplanes, etc. The texture of the handle seems to have remained with only a loss of the black color in places. So getting streaks shouldn't be a problem. Whatever I use would need to be durable however.

My other option is to remove all the black coating and turn my "black beauty" into a "silver cloud". I remember someone did this using Oxi-Clean, I think?

DD