Marshes & Shepherd

I got this razor in a antique stores with a few others, sometime earlier this year.
The dating is somewhere from 1806- 1845 from what I find.

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I spent several hours hand sanding, finishing the blade with 600 grit, W/D paper and buffing the spine and tang with Emory, leaving some pitting which resides mainly on the tang.

The scales were flattened with a clothes iron, sanded and steel wooled after a small delamination repair was made with CA, near the wedge. Soaked in Neats foot oil for about a week, then buffed with Flitz. Odd...one is black horn, other is brown with streaks.

Pinned with original wedge, brass pins, and some bronze collars sent to me by Sharpton.

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Excellent restore.

To paraphrase what’s on the blade, “You are good and it will shave well.”

Looks excellent. :tu

Bob

Another fine job Mike. A good looking oldie for sure!

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Originally Posted by Gasman

Another fine job Mike. A good looking oldie for sure!

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When I seen it at the antique store, It reminded of yours.

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Ive been doing so many other things with razors lately... i need to break that one out for a shave. Maybe tomorrow.

Great work.One of my favorite brand razors. :chapeau

Well done. I find it alarming that they used to take beautiful multi colour and blonde horn and dye it all black. I like it a lot.

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Originally Posted by outback

I got this razor in a antique stores with a few others, sometime earlier this year.
The dating is somewhere from 1806- 1845 from what I find.

I spent several hours hand sanding, finishing the blade with 600 grit, W/D paper and buffing the spine and tang with Emory, leaving some pitting which resides mainly on the tang.

The scales were flattened with a clothes iron, sanded and steel wooled after a small delamination repair was made with CA, near the wedge. Soaked in Neats foot oil for about a week, then buffed with Flitz. Odd...one is black horn, other is brown with streaks.

Pinned with original wedge, brass pins, and some bronze collars sent to me by Sharpton.

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Nice job. Looks like you reground it.

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Originally Posted by RezDog

Well done. I find it alarming that they used to take beautiful multi colour and blonde horn and dye it all black. I like it a lot.

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Rez, some of the Asiatic buff horn they used to use is black naturally tho it can be lighter in the centre as that is the youngest part of the horn if that makes sense. You see a lot of archery bows with horn backs & they're mostly black with occasional mottling.

[QUOTE=onimaru55;1838576]Nice job. Looks like you reground it.

The nasty hone wear is still there. That's why its sanded and polished the way it was.

It falls under trickery and deceit. :angel:

Another nice oldie, Mike! Dig it! :tu

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Originally Posted by onimaru55

Nice job. Looks like you reground it.

The nasty hone wear is still there. That's why its sanded and polished the way it was.

It falls under trickery and deceit. :angel:

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Smoke, mirrors & electrical tape :roflmao

Nice restore, Mike-I like the saying on the spine too!

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Originally Posted by outback

Smoke, mirrors & electrical tape :roflmao

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:rofl2: yeah, Somethin like that....though I did enough sanding, that it could be considered, a light regrind. The main thing was putting staggered pieces of tape on the spine to compensate for the hone wear. I only needed three piece's. A 1/2" piece at the toe, another over the toe to mid blade, then a piece from toe to heal. Then trim the excess tape from the sides of the blade, to just under the original line of the spine. Presto.!! Perfect little bevels. :tu

Really? I never knew! :cool:
I have a few blades for you to hone, Mike! :beer1:

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Originally Posted by sharptonn

Really? I never knew! :cool:
I have a few blades for you to hone, Mike! :beer1:

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I bet you do.

The one I did for MrZ was unbelievable. .020 difference from heal to toe. Had a big wide bevel, at the toe.

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You can see my bevel inside the original

HAR!...............

It's there~!

Beautiful razor and great job on the restore.

I wish that I understood half the lingo here...lol. Great job on the razor.

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Originally Posted by outback

I got this razor in a antique stores with a few others, sometime earlier this year.
The dating is somewhere from 1806- 1845 from what I find.

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I spent several hours hand sanding, finishing the blade with 600 grit, W/D paper and buffing the spine and tang with Emory, leaving some pitting which resides mainly on the tang.

The scales were flattened with a clothes iron, sanded and steel wooled after a small delamination repair was made with CA, near the wedge. Soaked in Neats foot oil for about a week, then buffed with Flitz. Odd...one is black horn, other is brown with streaks.

Pinned with original wedge, brass pins, and some bronze collars sent to me by Sharpton.

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Beautiful love it!!!

Great job on an awesome razor

Thanks,Doc. U do excellent work yourself, I must say.

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Originally Posted by outback

I got this razor in a antique stores with a few others, sometime earlier this year.
The dating is somewhere from 1806- 1845 from what I find.

I spent several hours hand sanding, finishing the blade with 600 grit, W/D paper and buffing the spine and tang with Emory, leaving some pitting which resides mainly on the tang.

The scales were flattened with a clothes iron, sanded and steel wooled after a small delamination repair was made with CA, near the wedge. Soaked in Neats foot oil for about a week, then buffed with Flitz. Odd...one is black horn, other is brown with streaks.

Pinned with original wedge, brass pins, and some bronze collars sent to me by Sharpton.

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Very nicely done, Mike.