Thread: The Butcher Shop

Not sure if I ever put my Butcher in here or not. 7/8's "For Gentlemens Use" reground and rescaled in giraffe bone with a brass wedge by our own Bob Allman.

My latest W&B:

I've been meaning to put this one up for months. This is my first and at the moment my only W&B. A "For Barbers Only" 7/8. I rescaled it in horn with a polished Aluminium wedge and just gave the blade a very light clean. I expected it to be a good shaver but it is even better than I'd imagined.
Grant

Congrats Grant! Very nice job!
Cheers,
fonti

my 8/8 w&b i need to rescale it tho

What a monster, congratulations

Went to the flea market today and found a really rusted up Wade & Butcher razor. I want to post some pictures of it and find out if it is worth restoreing. I also am hoping someone can tell if the scales are original and if they are they worth saving. I would Also like to know if the spine is worn down can that be repaired so it doesn't show? and lastly how do I get a picture on here?........JR

I will have pics of my W and Ds up soon, have one more and a nice Nikon FM2N on the way from teh fleabay :-)

Outstanding thread.

I'm just working on my first ever restore at the moment and it's a wade and butcher I bought on ebay a couple months ago. I made some sweet custom scales out of a mix of maple and walnut, sanded down the blade and got it pretty shiny (especially considering the shape it was in when I got it) and then rounded up a brass rod and washers....

That's when things started to go wrong. I realized I'd not cut the scales to 1/8 of an inch but rather to a 1/4 of an inch. So here I had some sweet scales that were way to thick. I sanded them down on a belt sander but I really screwed up one side and made it too thin. When I tried to put it all together I split the thin scale. I then removed the razor, made a shim from some maple and attached it to the cracked scale (it made sense because I was having to use several washers to get a clean close). I re drilled. it didn't look too bad and the razor was closing straight so i figured what the heck. I'll pin it and after some TLC it will still look good and be a memory of good times. So I went ahead. This time the other scale cracked!! Sadly, it was on the last hammer tap!

It's all together and would definitely be functional. i'm in the process of making a new set of scales that will not suffer from the same mistakes as this first set.

Check out the before and after pics. should look good down the road I think.




Stultsy

Hi everyone!
Recently I've got an 8/8 W&B razor it's got normal stamp, but a cross and arrow missing.
Can anyone tell me if it a genuine W&B, a second class one or else? Thanks