Thread: The Butcher Shop

Originally Posted by karlej

A 9/8 FBU as found in the first 2 photos and cleaned up in the last 2. It has never been apart. A bit on the big side for me but delivers a wow shaving experience.

I have one like that, too--never been dismantled.



For me, also, it's a bit on the big side. I'm happier with a 7/8 or even, for some blades, a 6/8. But still, the FBU is something like a maximum, and I felt the need to have one in the rotation. Every razor has to be handled in its own way, according to its weight and shape. The FBU takes more handling, for me, than a smaller razor.

I got a nasty cut early on with it. I hadn't registered yet how much momentum the sheer weight carries behind it. Reminded me of the experience an older friend of mine once told me about. He flew bombers during the Second World War. They had been trained to fly with empty planes. Then the first time they loaded up the bombs, the planes slid around all over the sky. They had to get a feel for the inertia produced by that much weight.

Originally Posted by Suticat

I would like to join your club. Here is one of my submission. Can someone teach me the super secret hand shake and password please?

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That's a handsome razor. Must feel good in the hand.

Originally Posted by carrolljc

That's a handsome razor. Must feel good in the hand.

Yes it does. I like the beefier feel of it. Being a big guy I often feel like a princess holding some the more petite and thinner scales. I always feel like I'm going to break them if I sneeze to hard. This one doesn't give me that feeling. It's amazingly well balanced too.

Here's a recent photo of me. You can see my dilemmas.

Originally Posted by freebird

Moved the pics into a different catagory in photobucket, links were lost, here they are again.

I have a Wade&Butcher with the same inlay and barbers notch its a 6/8ths., picked up another W&B today at a gun show, says B-"arrow" then "The Hollow Ground Razor" with the arrow and the cross afterwards its a 5/8ths with a notch also.

My first WB I got from Gemstar! very proud of it and love the way it shaves.
Up until now all of my razors are hollows. this is the first wedge or near wedge I have ever shaved with. one thing I noticed was I had to really back of on any pressure what so ever. this thing mows through whiskers like nothing.

Wont be my last for sure, I'm eyeing one that my barber had but it needs restoration and he's trying to sell it for like a million bucks.

Originally Posted by daverojo77

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Up until now all of my razors are hollows. this is the first wedge or near wedge I have ever shaved with. . . . Wont be my last for sure

Those are beautiful scales, and that's a monster of a shank on that one.

I've noticed that as I go through my rotation, I have started looking forward to the wedges more than the full hollows. I've even thought of just going in more or less whole hog for wedges or for wedges and quarter hollows. No doubt about it, though, they are harder to hone.

This bad boy, even though I'm happy with the edges I put on my hollows, when I need to hone I'm just sending it to Glen. He put a magical edge on this thing.

Adding a new submission soon. Just need to get some more pieces and parts to put it together.

Doublepost but deserves to be in this thread.
Set of 4, Wade and Butchers, Special, 5/8, round point. Early 19xx. NOS, never touched or honed.

First post in the Butcher Shop here....Just finished this one.