Thread: Honing of wedge blades for lathercatchers

Actually, they came with an attachment to the handle that you slip the spine of the blade into, thereby giving you a handle with which to hold them safely while honing and stropping them. If my pictures come through, you can see the stropping attachment in the first picture just above the razor in the box, and in the second picture, you'll see the stropping/honing attachment connected to the end of the handle (although they would normally unscrew the handle from the head to make it easier to work with.

Originally Posted by epd

I see three usable blades there, depending on where the safety guard is there may be one more.
Im sure they would be a pain to hone, having nothing to hang on to.

Good luck, Im sure someone will take them on.

Eric.

Uh, yes. Modine pointed that out. If One has no handle which came with the razor. What does One do?
The Wilkinsons are an "autostrop" type razor. They have wedge type blades. They come with no handle. No handle is needed for stropping. A handle must be improvised for honing.

Received my blades back from Mike (Modine)... what an excellent job he did for me on these!! Had my first shave with one this morning using my STAR "Victorian" lather-catcher razor and got an excellent, close shave. The feel of the blade was definitely different from the modern single-edge blades, but I believe it gave a closer shave even though I only did two WTG and one XTG pass. Getting the angle down was a little tricky but not too bad as I got no nicks or cuts. Very enjoyable shave from a 100+ year old razor and blade. Thanks again, Mike
Cleave

Very nice. Thanks for this post I learned something and the old beauties are back in service. I like that.

It helpse to keep a shallow angle when shaving with the Lather Catchers IMO. SRP member Geezer has quite a collection of these beautiful razors. Here is the progression used, I hope this may help. Enjoy.
MIke

bevel set w/ Chosera 1K


unknown natural stone approx 3K


Asagi J-nat


Oozuku j-nat


cont:..

Final finish on brown thuringian-esque w/oil


1 layer of tape had been applied.


no shave test conducted, visual inspection only..

Nice Work, Modine!