Thread: Re-etched Wade and Butcher Celebrated FBUs

Originally Posted by mainaman

The original FBU has the text etched in the steel, the example in the OP looks like laser engraved or acid etched stamp. Very different outcome to the two processes. The fonts are indeed way out of proportion and in the wrong position because of that.

I don't have my old Celebrated FBU anymore, went to a good home. So I cannot remember for sure, but I think the tang logo was stamped, not etched. Appears to be etched on the fungasi ..........

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I don't have my old Celebrated FBU anymore, went to a good home. So I cannot remember for sure, but I think the tang logo was stamped, not etched. Appears to be etched on the fungasi ..........

May be the terminology I am using is off. All writings are inscribed in the blade, metal removed to form the letters, not just an ink stamp.

Damn that etching looks awful!

Apparently not to some. It's already up past $350 on ebay.

I have 10 of these blades, and they are all stamped - the one in ScienceGuy's OP just leapt out as a complete fake as soon as I saw it.

Seller should be clearly stating that it has been relabeled IMO....it looks horrible in my opinion, crappy job to say the least.

Here are two - clearly stamped:

Originally Posted by Phrank

I have 10 of these blades, and they are all stamped - the one in ScienceGuy's OP just leapt out as a complete fake as soon as I saw it.

Seller should be clearly stating that it has been relabeled IMO....it looks horrible in my opinion, crappy job to say the least.

Here are two - clearly stamped:

Andrew, you mean you don't need that fake one for your collection ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Andrew, you mean you don't need that fake one for your collection ?

LOL...need and want, that terrible, terrible place.....

I'd take the darn thing to get it off the market...what a shame....blade would have been fine without that total fakedom....

Well to be accurate the originals are not stamped on the blade face, that is an etching. Some of the earlier ones still had a stamp on the tang, while most of them have also an etching there.

Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

Well to be accurate the originals are not stamped on the blade face, that is an etching. Some of the earlier ones still had a stamp on the tang, while most of them have also an etching there.

Agreed, have a few with the stamp on the tang, like this you mean?

Here are some comparisons.

Stamped tang:





Etched tang: