Thread: Le Grelot -B&B LE- with olivewood

I´m only rescaled this razor for a member here. It is olivewood at a brassliner. The wedge is also from red and lightbrown vulcanfibre combined with brass. The thirdpin is a brass tube. Now it is also shave ready an I hope the owner likes it.

Dude I love your work!!!!

that beautiful, well done, mate!

What a beauty. Thanks for sharing!

If he does not like it... I am ready to adopt! excellent work as usual!

Originally Posted by Buddel

I´m only rescaled this razor for a member here. It is olivewood at a brassliner. The wedge is also from red and lightbrown vulcanfibre combined with brass. The thirdpin is a brass tube. Now it is also shave ready an I hope the owner likes it.

Wicked!!!, Million thanks for the work!!, I'm really happy with the outcome of this, can't wait to try it.

Finally the Grelot looks fiine

Originally Posted by Ockham

If he does not like it... I am ready to adopt! excellent work as usual!

Don't worry.. , me like.

I must say, the pattern of the olivewood on these scales is amasing, much better than the bent scales of pink ivory they came with. (Lesson learned, buy plastic scales or something next time.. and rescale.. )

Originally Posted by asbjorn

Finally the Grelot looks fiine

Just out of curiosity, did it not look fine before?

That is gorgeous work. Beatiful wood and design. I have a regular black plastic scale one from rasurpur and love it. It's a really nice razor to shave with.

Sorry, no.
I'm a bad photographer, but take a look here:
2008 B&B Le Grelot 6/8 - a set on Flickr

One scale is as it should be, the other is bent, like it is in tension or something. (I was told by Joel that I should expect things like this.. after he have been talked so much good about it.. well.. after all, he said that he could talk to TI to check if they could do something with it, but whataheck.. )

On this it shows good how it is:
DSC_7548 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The "spacer" also looks like it is made after the scales, and to thin compared to the width of the blade. I'm not sure what the wedge was made of, but it looks like it is melted plastic that is formed after the gap between the scales.

And the pivot pin was strange, the scales did not align at the pivot, they was moving when opening and closing the razor.

If that was not it.. I ordered it shave ready, yeah, right, dull as hell, I even could see the gritmarks in the bevel, to bad I did not take a picture of it then. I did the recomended 100 laps on strop etc, but no-go, the bevel polished nice though, but still dull.

After paying like $420 for an razor, (it was kinda steep because of shipping, taxes, customs etc), then I was expecting something little better than this.

Now Buddel have fullfilled(?) that

Originally Posted by asbjorn

I was told by Joel that I should expect things like this...
The "spacer" also looks like it is made after the scales, and to thin compared to the width of the blade. I'm not sure what the wedge was made of, but it looks like it is melted plastic that is formed after the gap between the scales.
And the pivot pin was strange, the scales did not align at the pivot, they was moving when opening and closing the razor.

I cannot believe this... how dare say that one should expect things like "this" when paying that much money for a razor! Looks like Mr B&B is using quite a double standard when he praises his Le Grelot B&BLE and criticises other razors hand made (follow my sight... RW.)

yeah, dissapointing at least.

Look also at this:
FS B&B Grelot - Badger & Blade
And this:
B&B Le Grelot Review - Badger & Blade

And if you then remember how i praised this when it was prototype, and when all of them came in.. I really thought that this batch was better than the average TI out there. (Well, I have no TI's myself, so I wouldn't know really.)

If your read the FS thread from PapaSmurf, you see Joel states the same that i wrote to me, He told me also that he could blabla, but who want to do something that you newer would know what is going to happen?