Wade & Butcher Superior Concave / Wingfield Rowbotham & Co - Micartas

These are part of a series for our dear Gugi.

The first one is a Wade & Butcher - fine India steel - superior concave. Boy oh boy, those are so gorgeous. Concave, upper and lower tang jimps,...

It needed a good polish mostly. The scales are black paper micarta, polished to a high shine, brass/silver hardware and tapered bloody red jasper recon stone wedge.

The second is a Wingfield Rowbotham & Co - Sheffield razor that came with cheap plastic scales and a ivory covered tang. Same nice polish was needed for this one. First one I've ever seen myself.

For this combo I used a burgundy linen micarta, brass/silver hardware and yellow dino bone recon stone wedge. I also tried to stay as close to the original scale design on this one.

One thing's for sure. Gugi surely has a worthy collection of vintage straight razors in his possesion.

Enjoy

Nice!

James.

bring back the dice!

congrats, gugi :)

Nice Work! That black micarta almost looks like horn. Is there any grain on it?

very cool max... they look great!

and yes... more dice!

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Originally Posted by Villalobos

Nice Work! That black micarta almost looks like horn. Is there any grain on it?

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There's no texture at all and it's an excellent substitute to horn with none of the warping or other horn issues that can arise.

I love the linen micarta. Beautiful color and texture on those scales.

Both beautifully done!

But I'm another that *really* loves the stuff I've seen you do with micarta. There's just something very refined and yet simple about it. Really cool.

Stunning work Max. You go from strength to strength.

BEAUTIMOUS, as always,Max!

btw that w&b has probably almost lost completely the WR stamp, but it was there originally, placing it in the 1830-1837.

the wingfield&rowbottam company used to be wade wingfield& rowbottam and are also famous for bowie knives they made. i think they lost wade around 1850s.

should be here one of these days :)

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Originally Posted by gugi

btw that w&b has probably almost lost completely the WR stamp, but it was there originally, placing it in the 1830-1837.

the wingfield&rowbottam company used to be wade wingfield& rowbottam and are also famous for bowie knives they made. i think they lost wade around 1850s.

should be here one of these days :)

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NICE, very nice gugi....some guys have all the fun and the toys also

I really like the combination of materials and colors on the Wingfield Rowbotham & Co razor -- exceptional in appearance, and expertly executed.