Thread: Nice W&B, Buut...

I've seen a few marked 'blank for concaving' over the years. It is not 'that' rare a mark AFAIC, and not worth what he is looking for, even though it is that large a blade. If it were in original scales, with the original patina, maybe, but not as it is. IMHO.

Two prior examples ;

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...concaving.html

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...concaving.html

It's not to my giant Sheffield tastes, but it is more than likely going to fetch stupid money. Poor as the presentation is, it has gotten up to a respectable level so far.. The scales probably would have needed scrapping anyway, it's just nice to get blades in honest shape as you can make 1:1 duplicates of whatever is damaged.

The last two large blades on there were both e l and co. One was a rust bucket, the other had serious issues as well, both were not 10/8 and got very strong cash. 10/8 is hard to get.... All you need is one bottoming out blade dinging the edge over the last 150 years, or a sink ding, or a drop, or having been thrown in a box opened with other metallic objects rattling around because nobody cared, or severe rust down low and you lose the height... Or you find them reground by fools...

If someone paid me to make finding 10/8 sheffields my full time job and I was forbidden from just messaging ppl who posted them on here in the past or on other forums I think maybe I could find two a year... Maybe....

What I would personally do with that is have a contrasting polish done between the faces and the spine and set in in a nice piece of chocolate brown horn with period washers, preferably, and a new lead wedge.

Ummmmmmmmm


It hasn't been Concaved "Final Grind"

Look at the one in Jimmy's link and search out the other's they normally have been hollow ground this one hasn't

Now that is a quandary isn't it is it rather rare, or is it just another unfinished blank

I know it is sacrilege, but you could probably send that to any number of custom makers and have the grinding tweaked if you really wanted. It's a shame he didn't measure the spine with a caliper and the height with a caliper at front middle and heel. Just curious how the geometry is currently set up.

Originally Posted by kcb5150

I know it is sacrilege, but you could probably send that to any number of custom makers and have the grinding tweaked if you really wanted. It's a shame he didn't measure the spine with a caliper and the height with a caliper at front middle and heel. Just curious how the geometry is currently set up.

Ahhhhhh,,, why sacrilege ??? that is exactly what these were made for

But now you tossed in almost $100 to the price tag, and have to accept that the final outcome will probably NOT be 10/8
and you are basically spending (at this point in time) $430 on a Tool Steel blank for the W&B stamp

Or $430 for a piece of $5 steel

If you look close at the pics you can also see the flaws in the steel, that were probably never planned on being left there after final grinding...

Just putting this out on the table to get people thinking