Thread: Benjamin Shepherd in ornate pressed horn scales.

This was sort of a test to find the outer limits of what's possible with the setup I talk about in this thread.

In fact, this was the razor I practiced on before tackling the Roberts.

Witness the condition of this razor and despair.





Looks pretty bad, huh?

No. It looks really bad.





I got this as part of a lot of razors with pressed horn scales. It's something I've come across multiple times, but at some point someone decided it'd be easier to see how nice the pressed horn looked if they dyed the mockshell full black. Except with this one they just dunked the razor intact into a harsh dye with etchant and left it. The end result was that the scales were brittle and the blade... Well, the blade is a detailed topographical map of the Tiamat Sulcus on Jupiter's moon, Ganymede.

But this is a razor by Benjamin Shepherd, which is pretty actively rare. There's not much known about him and he was only in the biz for about 7 years between 1816 and 1823, when he died.

The pressed horn was made by Broadwell, a company or person who has left insufficient records of their existence for me to know more than that. This is the second set of scales I've seen with that name on them.

So after all that... What can be done with this poor old thing?