If you have never tried the baking soda method for removing tarnish from a silver plated razor, then you definitely need to read this thread. However, the baking soda method can only do so much, and it doesn't make the razors bright and shiny at all, so you'll probably end up using some metal polish before it's all said and done. The problem with metal polishes is they remove a microscopic amount of the silver plating along with the tarnish, so they should be used very sparingly if at all (remember, these are old and hard to replace items). What I started doing was making a thin paste of baking soda and water to use as a "polish", which I apply (and rub vigorously) with a small piece of 100% cotton tee shirt. This "polish" works astonishingly well on silver plate as well as gold plate (no good for nickel), and I imagine that little to no plating is lost in the process. I first tried this polish method when I needed to clean a silver plated Pocket Edition case that I had already used MAAS metal polish on once, and did not want to do so again. Obviously, I could not subject a case to the baking soda cleaning method, so I tried "baking soda polish", and it worked like a charm.
This razor is from the Bostonian set from this thread. The "before" pictures are after two rounds of the baking soda method referenced above, and the "after" pictures are after polishing with nothing more than baking soda paste and a 100% cotton cloth.
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This razor is from the Bostonian set from this thread. The "before" pictures are after two rounds of the baking soda method referenced above, and the "after" pictures are after polishing with nothing more than baking soda paste and a 100% cotton cloth.
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