Thread: Ellicottville in ivory

Old Carl Monkhouse and Burrell cutlery razors are known for fine steel and shaves. I was going thru the workbench pile and found an old Blackie CMon and a Burrell Top Flight. Scales rotting on one and shrinking on the other. Figured to fix them up and searched for scales. I had two sets of ivory replacement scales from a broken 7 day set with two sets of pivot holes in them. Too short for some blades as cut off at the bottom hole, but just right for these. Did my best on the blades, but too rough to sand more, so I gave them a brushed finish, blued the tangs and spines. Cut and reshaped the scales and pinned them up! They honed up nice and shave awesome




I can call them a pair, of sorts, as they came from the same building in Ellicottville as evidenced by an old article dug up by Martin! Thinking this is from about 1941. Thanks Martin!


They certainly look as if they were made by the same hands. I expect they were!


Pretty well-dressed for some old American steel, but I suppose they deserve it after all these years!