Thread: 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.





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.

Excellent restore.

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

Looks excellent.

Bob

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

Originally Posted by Gasman

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Nice job. Looks like you reground it.

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.

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.