A Wade & Butcher With Spanish Point

Hello everyone. After a long absence, so long in fact that I can't remember my old user name and password from the forum that was compromised.
Here is a W&B that I shaved with today after finally completing the resto.

I forgot to use tape along the spine and I also forgot to sand and smooth the inside of the scales. Why, I have no idea. New Rosewood scales. I feared to put it to the greasless because I would probably have eradicated the remaining nomenclature that is readable but faint.
OMgosh!! Scratches, scratches and still more scratches. I'm embarrassed.

It performed the parlor trick; AKA cut a hair as you drag it across the blade. Pops hairs on my arm.
Anyway it shaves awesome.


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Restored one very similar, recently. Like yours, it needed a lot of the heel, reshaped. You still need to thin and remove some of the stabilizers, so your not honing on them. Its causing a frown, just in front of them.

Their not really meant to be Spanish points, though it is nice to shave with, they've just seen a lot of use, and time on the hones.

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Scales look good, too.!
You could carefully sand the insides with a fingernail file/ emory board, or sandpaper on a Popsicle stick.

Thanks Mike, that's a good idea. I've got a number of small files and various grits of emery boards. I see exactly what you mean about the stabilizers. Will have to work on that.
Chris

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Restored one very similar, recently. Like yours, it needed a lot of the heel, reshaped. You still need to thin and remove some of the stabilizers, so your not honing on them. Its causing a frown, just in front of them.

Their not really meant to be Spanish points, though it is nice to shave with, they've just seen a lot of use, and time on the hones.

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Scales look good, too.!
You could carefully sand the insides with a fingernail file/ emory board, or sandpaper on a Popsicle stick.

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Hmmmm, where have I seen that razor...?

These were 7/8ths once if im not mistaken ?

Yes, they were.!
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Yes, they were.!
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I have a few. The can take a wicked edge those ones.

W & B got it right. I also notice that for some reason my W & B razors seem to really like coticules.

I set bevels on a 1K then go through Norton 4K/8K and end on my coti with light slurry to just water. Then I finish with CrOx on balsa.

The edges are keen and comfortable and last a long time with just stropping on linen and leather. They refresh easily using just the coticule.

W & B got it right. I also notice that for some reason my W & B razors seem to really like coticules.I can verify that this is true. Mike honed the 1 above for me on a coti, and it is a beautiful edge, keen and smooth. (Sorry, I originally uploaded a pic of a different WB I rescaled, and I couldn't seem to delete it-2nd razor in the SOTD is the one.).

I've been searching all over the web, trying to figure out what vein that coti came from, Aaron. Out of the four that I have, this one is one of those Coties, coti lovers search for, as for finishers go.

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Very hard, with a look of quartz in it, and a rainbow of colors. Semi hard to slurry, with DMT.

Beautiful stone, Mike-I've only fooled around with cotis, never owned one.

I think the only folks who can identify from which vein a coti came with any authority are in Europe.

Mike, yours is quite unlike the ones I have. Two of mine are natural combos with the coti side a beige-yellow with virtually no streaks of any other colour. They provide comfortable shaving edges and I can bump the keenness using CrOx or my Shapton Glass 30k.

Aaron, compared to the cost of some other natural stones, they were relatively inexpensive. I paid $90 Canadian (about $70 US, which included shipping) for my 6” x 1.5” x 1” combo and the seller included a combo slurry stone and a small green Thuri.

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I think the only folks who can identify from which vein a coti came with any authority are in Europe.

Mike, yours is quite unlike the ones I have. Two of mine are natural combos with the coti side a beige-yellow with virtually no streaks of any other colour. They provide comfortable shaving edges and I can bump the keenness using CrOx or my Shapton Glass 30k.

Aaron, compared to the cost of some other natural stones, they were relatively inexpensive. I paid $90 Canadian (about $70 US, which included shipping) for my 6” x 1.5” x 1” combo and the seller included a combo slurry stone and a small green Thuri.

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Yep, searched thru Ardeenes library of stuff, and others, to no avail.
Mine are vintage Coties, that have glued BBWs in them, no Nat. combos.

One,not pictured, is like yours. But about the size of a barbers hone.

One has dark, feathering streaks. ( good cutter, slurry turns gray, quickly)
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The other is a sand color, with purple dots. It falls between the two pictured, as how they finish an edge. So they actually work in a progression, together.

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Knowing what vein would be nice, but is still irrelevant, being no coti is the same, even cut from the same vein, IMHO. And, like you, Cr/Ox is needed to make a coti, shine.! Not a hone for all razors, but they do seem to fit nicely, with old Sheffield, steel.