W&B Good As "Gold", M3 That Is...

I have today for your viewing pleasure an 8/8 Wade And Butcher I purchased from a local barber. I tried my hand at bringing the blade up from 320 – 2000 grit, when I was not able to achieve what I was looking for I called in Max. He did a superb job on the regrind. As for the scales I had Bestsilversteel make them from Mokume Gane Black & Gold Burl, Mammoth Ivory wedge and he used the original bullseye washers that I ran for 8 hours in my brass tumbler. I could not be happier with the way it turned out and the shave is amazing! Enjoy.

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Wow bro, that is an amazing transformation. Beautiful razor, great save!!!

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Originally Posted by mjhammer

Wow bro, that is an amazing transformation. Beautiful razor, great save!!!

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Thank you. The barber has a dozen or so razors on display, I can't tell you how happy I was when he said he would entertain an offer. A beautiful razor like this needs to be used not on display.

Very well done. That razor can look forward to several hundred more years of service. Beautiful job.

I like it - A LOT
Well done - good job

Very nice.

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Originally Posted by lz6

Very well done. That razor can look forward to several hundred more years of service. Beautiful job.

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Thanks, I can't wait till I can make it up to show the barber his "old" razor. I'm sure it will make him very happy to see what we have done for it.

Dude you had me at the very first pic. WOW nice job bro!
Rich

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Originally Posted by RDM2

Dude you had me at the very first pic. WOW nice job bro!
Rich

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lol, thanks Rich. I thought 9 might be a little pic HEAVY! Good thing no one has 56K anymore...

No not at all! the more I see the more I learn. keep them comin :cool:
Rich

wow! that looks so very familiar. Hmmm? I think that there's a w&b missing from the medicine cabinet. it was a pleasure to work on it for you bub! awesome razor.

Ryan

wow!..maybe your whiskers will just fall off with out needing to try that beauty out!..wait...now wheres the fun in that?...;)

Nice job on that razor. They give a great shave !

Super looking razor, and a beautiful set of scales, Max did a magic job on your razor.

Jamie.

two quick things... Thanks for the excellent before and after pics; seeing the material before a restore really provides richer context. Secondly, as mentioned above, has the barber you got it from seen the restore work yet? If so, what did he say? Beautiful work...

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Originally Posted by bestsilversteel

wow! that looks so very familiar. Hmmm? I think that there's a w&b missing from the medicine cabinet. it was a pleasure to work on it for you bub! awesome razor.

Ryan

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Ha, well if I was going to "barrow" a W&B from your medicine cabinet I would have grabbed your 9/8 as well :). You really set the bar high for your next restore with these scales. I may give you a break so you can catch up on some of your own razors... lol, thanks again bud.

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Originally Posted by smalltank

wow!..maybe your whiskers will just fall off with out needing to try that beauty out!..wait...now wheres the fun in that?...;)

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Well it is about that sharp, but your right that would take all the fun out of it! This is my first "large" razor I must admit I was a little intimated at first. But I find that it is actually much easier to keep that 30 degree angle and much more enjoyable to strop. The only problem I see is that I have lost the desire to use my other 10 razors...

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Originally Posted by kingping

two quick things... Thanks for the excellent before and after pics; seeing the material before a restore really provides richer context. Secondly, as mentioned above, has the barber you got it from seen the restore work yet? If so, what did he say? Beautiful work...

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Thank you. I am happy the pictures turned out as well as they did, but always room for improvement I don't feel they do the razor justice IMO. M3 is such a rich material and the ivory has a nice checkerboard pattern I could not capture.
I still haven't made it to see the barber, as his shop is 2 hrs. away from my home. My cousin who made the scales actually found the razor at a "new" barber he was trying out. The barber who has been cutting hair for 50 years turned out even better than expected!