Thread: wade & butcher resale value!!! And funny story

Originally Posted by JOB15

My brother recently purchased this for £120 which is mega cheap. From USA .
He told me it was a near wedge. Maybe it started off as a full wedge?
Those scales wont do.

It seems to me he paid way too much for such amateurish work - see how all the lines are rounded from the overzealous grinding and buffing. I'd also bet money that it was ~1/4" wider when it was produced.

BTW, there are no 'full wedge' razors, except may be some very early 'knives' that were used for shaving. Full wedge geometry requires a shim along the spine for honing, like the framebacks, which again brings it to an effective hollowed out geometry.

Originally Posted by gugi

It seems to me he paid way too much for such amateurish work - see how all the lines are rounded from the overzealous grinding and buffing. I'd also bet money that it was ~1/4" wider when it was produced.

BTW, there are no 'full wedge' razors, except may be some very early 'knives' that were used for shaving. Full wedge geometry requires a shim along the spine for honing, like the framebacks, which again brings it to an effective hollowed out geometry.

Interesting. I wont tell my bro what you said. I'll e mail him your reply. You can be the barer of bad news haha..
Don't know what I'm laughing at, I'll have to hone it for him.

Originally Posted by JOB15

My brother recently purchased this for £120 which is mega cheap. From USA .
He told me it was a near wedge. Maybe it started off as a full wedge?
Those scales wont do.

Most wedges are "near wedges". From what I've read, true wedges aren't that common. If the blade was a true wedge, it would lie completely flat on the hone with the entire face of the blade being worn. I own a couple of wedges and if you look and them closely, you can see a very slight hollow in them from when they were ground. For a near wedge to have started out as a true wedge, it would have to be reground.