Thread: Pickbone Torrey

I have been going through the workbench, finding projects lately. (low dough!) I found this 13/16 Torrey #47 blade, an old one.
It had been shortened a bit and the spine was hanging out past the edge, so I brought the toe back in and gave it a nice gentle round-point and really just polished it up a bit. With this tang stamp and the Torrey Razor Strop logo, I figure is is a pretty early Torrey, possibly from the hands of Joseph Turner of Meridian, Connecticut as he did lots of razors for Torrey in the early days of Torrey's razor sales before joining them in Worcester in 1880. OR, possibly in the early days of his joining them. Either way, it exhibits the old Sheffield style and lovely steel for which Turner's earlier work was known.
With a cutting edge of 2 1/2 inches, some shorter scales were needed and since I had recently unpinned a nice blade from these thin pickbone scales (long story), it all just seemed to fit. A really thin wedge was required to keep the blade in check, so the thinnest lead example from the 'sack 'O wedges' was tried and did the deed. All pinned up collarless with brass, I really like the feel, balance, and especially the shave! It shaves like a dream!

Thanks for looking!