Thread: The Butcher Shop

Originally Posted by the wanderer

Wade & Butchers are sure nice, but I don't know if anything could make me completely give up my Gencos or Wostenholms.

I know what you mean. I don't think I could ever give up a couple of mine that have been there from the start (non-W&B's). I do have three more W&B's at a restorer and will see how they do after they get back to me. I will have to decide if they deserve a permanent place like my other W&B has.

Bought this from Manah. Not half as fancy as many of the others here, but it's my first Wade & Butcher and it's special to me

I have one just like yours and they are great razors! Congrats!

Thanks.. I look forward to trying it out! BTW I just scored my second Wade & Butcher off ebay! Do you guys have any thoughts on this one? About what period is it from you think? Looks old, and could be the original box as well..



Only stamp on it is "Wade & Butcher" & "Sheffield" With the "B arrow Cross" under "Sheffield".

Good deal you don't see the framebacks like that very often.

That's what I thought, and for $17, I thought it would be a sin to let it go.
Not easy to see from the pictures what shape it's in but still.. I'm happy with it.

You got a heck of a deal!

It was a woman who was selling off about 15 or 20 razors.. All very old looking and in good condition. Some she described as "..never or seldom used as it is in great condition". For some strange reason it seems nobody was interested. Most of the razors went for $6.99-30.. I did have to wake up 02:40 in the morning though! And go back to sleep after auction ending just to get up at 05.00 again to go to work..

I also got the one that went for $30. A very nice looking "Souvenir of Berlin" Solingen razor.


I will post pics of it in the "Sophisticated Solingens" Club

What are those framebacks for anyway? Why did they make razors with them?

EDIT: So the frameback are originally to be able to change blades and use the same scales? And the faux framebacks are the ones that look exactly as the framebacks but you can not change the blades right?

If this is correct, why make faux framebacks? What's the function of it when the blade can not be changed?

I can't say for sure why they were made, but a frameback like the one you just posted would allow for a normal honing angle without having to hollow the blade. So I'm guessing it would save the company on skilled grinders

Another advantage could be that the thinness of the blade allows the razor to somewhat mimic a hollow ground razor, so it is lighter for the shave and easier to maintain sharpness

If I am not mistaken, the full hollow grinding innovation became widespread in Germany before it did in England. In fact I had a faux frameback Sheffield razor that was marked "A superior grind to the German hollow". So it appeared to me that the razor was possibly an attempt to remain competitive with the German hollow without having to actually employ the skilled labor required to produce it

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