Thread: 1820s Marshes and Shepherd Platina Steel

Finally got around to finishing this tonight. The original scales were broken and from Wade and Butcher anyway, so it's got new shoes. Everything is homemade - scales are in mottled horn, collars are stamped from brass sheet, and the wedge is from old fishing weights. I like how this one turned out...













Edit: just to clarify, noticed I forgot to mention here but did in the older post, I didn't buff the blade, it unfortunately came that way. I just put a glaze finish on everything but the blade face, as it would have come originally.

Nicely done and with patina! great job on the scales and collars and wedge.

You turn up some of the neatest and most unique pieces.

Looks phenomenal, thanks for putting on display here.

Originally Posted by pfries

You turn up some of the neatest and most unique pieces.

Looks phenomenal, thanks for putting on display here.

Thanks. I've had my fair share of WBs and the other common ones but never seem to hold on to them for very long, I like the rarer and more interesting stuff. I like to think that this one is actually real platina steel as it says, distantly involved with Faraday's experiments, but who knows...

I could be wrong here but were you the one with the slightly short Unaka on the bay a while back?

Originally Posted by pfries

I could be wrong here but were you the one with the slightly short Unaka on the bay a while back?

Hmm no, I've never had one of those.

Ahhh well he uses a similar name,
unique one from local area, Summers hardware in Johnson City TN that I picked up, great little shaver.

Man, thats beautiful. I like everything about it.
Well done
Grant

You definitely did a fine job reviving that blade. Nicely done

Gorgeous, very nicely done.