Thread: Got My First Ever Straight!!

It was sitting on my porch today when I got home from work It is a Wade and Butcher with bone scales. Needs lots of cleaning and a pro honing. It won't even shave arm hair at all but for $10 I'm not going to complain. I will use this one to practice my shaving and stropping techniques for a while as I have a Boker in the works which will be my shaver. I'll fix this one up later

Thats a sweet piece, great scales

Enjoy!

(Scales are actually horn, not bone)

Cheers
Ivo

Nice! Full wedge it looks like. That's gonna be a challenge on the hone and a very different feel on the strop and in the shave from your Boker I suspect.

X

Thanks guys. I sterilized and cleaned it a little last night and the scales do look pretty good. Couldn't find Maas where I was at so I picked up a cleaner/polish called Method. I'll try it this evening. Also saw a cleaner called Bar Keepers Friend. That name sounded familiar but I couldn't remember where I had read about it or how good it was. Any thoughts of that? Thanks for setting it straight Ivo, I was told bone so that's what I went with, I didn't know any better . Yeah it is a full wedge so we'll see how it goes.

Go with your idea and get someone to hone it for you. Wedges can be a tad tough to hone .
Nice looking razor