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Hi, I am a newbie to straightrazor shaving and have just bought this wade and butcher. handle broken and blade blunt. no obvious chips out of the blade. can anybody recommend a company that can restore/ replace the handle? and sharpen/ hone the blade. i am based in the uk. also any ideas on price too would be nice.
i paid £28 or £18
do you think the razor is restorable and worth restoring?
thanks
A picture sure would help...
Neil Miller is da man to talk to in the UK. www.strop-shop.co.uk - hand made straight razor strops, razor pouches, shaving accessories, vintage razors, razor honing and restoration
A full restore and rescaling will cost you though, you would come out cheaper if you bought a brand new Dovo and had it honed.
sorry ive had a few beers and forgot link.
try this
http://s164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ndbutcher4.jpg the 1st 4 pics are the razor
I am from Sheffield and although this may sound daft I guess I have an affinity to blades made in my home town so would like a good vintage Sheffield blade. are W and B as good as anything out there? I would like to restore this one if it is possible.
Ah I understand.
Wade and Butchers are very well regarded, so it's well worth getting restored. A polished W&B with some shiny dark horn scales is a thing of beauty, check out these restores done to very similar blades:
http://www.madaspenhome.com/straight.../davidwb09.jpg
http://www.madaspenhome.com/straight.../lg/tod_01.jpg
Welcome to SRP. Your razor is in decent shape as far as the blade goes. Too bad the scales are broken. W&B are as good as they get when it comes to vintage Sheffield razors. If it were mine I would have it rescaled but I wouldn't go for big $ to do it if I had alternatives. It will make a fine shaver but I wouldn't care to spend what it would take to make it a showpiece. YMMV. Check out the razor clubs forum for more Sheffield as well as others.
thanks, they look very nice.
the bottom one looks very similar to mine, and i would like to restore it to look like that if possible.
is there any way of finding out what year it was made approximately? it was a buy in the dark moment on ebay tbh, and i quite simply went with my gut that it looked "worthy" of restoring. I always knew Sheffield was known for it's steel as alot of my ancestors have been employed in the steel industry, but didnt know it was for razors too. :-) its my duty to restore it.
thanks jimmy i will do that. i bought a new thiers issard about a month ago, and although i am no razor expert, it doesnt seem sharp to me. followed stropping instructions etc but it has never really seemed sharp as i am making 3/4 passes in the same direction to get the same effect as from my mach 3, but fed up of buying them.
If your W&B doesn't say England on it, it's made before 1891.Quote:
Originally Posted by cosworthkev123
I guess you bought a TI with a factory edge, and they generally needs to be honed to shaving sharp, stropping isn't enough.
on the face of the blade it is very feint/ worn writing but it says EXTRA with what looks like 2 swords at either side of the writing. underneath that it says "HOLLOW GROUND RAZOR" and on the "neck"? it says "manufactured by wade and butcher sheffield" with what looks like a picture of a cross...similar to the crosses painted on the side of german bombers in WW2. :-)
i have just emailed the strop shop for some prices/ advice. if anybody knows of any other companies that are the best at what they do then please let me know.
thanks all. the day of paying £15 a month for mach 3 blades is coming to an end.
Yeah, now you can welcome spending hundreds every month on straight razor gear instead! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by cosworthkev123
I do see what all the fuss is about with straight razor shaving actually, even after shaving with the unhoned TI, but I really like this WandB vintage thing as it was made 2 miles down the road from me over a hundred years ago.
is there any way you can find the rough year of manufacture from the markings? i will stop asking questions soon, i promise ;-)
Please don't stop asking questions - how else will you learn?
Although, checking the WIKI and other posts may give you the information you need without asking.
Here's mine http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...4-8-wedge.html
Hang on and enjoy the ride
dark horn or purpleheart wood? i cant decide
Horn, as close to original as possible would be my choice.