Wade & Butcher Extra Hollow Ground 7/8

This is one of my most recent restoration/clean ups.

I choose to do a light cleanup on this razor as opposed to a full restoration. The scales I rehydrated with mink oil and then sanded down to get rid of surface damage and some pitting in the scales. Once done I ran the blade through a sanding progression ending up at 2500 grit. Set the bevel at 1k then went through to 12k and finished on a pasted strop. This old beautiful chopper delivered an amazing shave and will be nestled in my personal collection permanently.

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Nice work. I like that stand too. Did you 3D print that?

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Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Nice work. I like that stand too. Did you 3D print that?

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Yes, is from a file on Thingiverse very quick easy print.

Never seen a W&B with a pointy heal. But it looks good. Nice work.

Nice work there. It's great when the old razors are brought back to life and put to use.

Outstanding!

Nice, clean up.

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Originally Posted by Tathra11

Nice work there. It's great when the old razors are brought back to life and put to use.

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That is one of the big draws for me, taking an old piece of history cleaning it up and making it functional again. I have been able to put a few dozen vintage razors back into circulation since starting to restore razors and absolutely love that the legacy of the blade continues on.

Good job.

And some filler.

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Very nice work on bringing that blade back to life. :)

I have a couple of those but mine are 5/8 and 6/8.