Thread: The Butcher Shop

I'm awaiting its arrival from the Bay. it looks to be a 5/8.
I haven't seen too many of these on here.
I can't wait to start to clean her up

1st post in the Butcher shop but not the last.

Cheers

Cheetah Meat

Originally Posted by Urbane1

Just purchased this. Not sure if it is "shave ready"

Ha ha! I was bidding on that same one. Great to see it ended up in the hands of someone from SRP. Please post some pics if and when it has been brought back to life.

Here is the alpha male in my collection right now.
Even bigger than my 9/8 George Brittain.
I have since gotten rid of the rust by hand sanding this big monster.
Hope to have it professionally restored one day.

The first 3 are the crappy E Bay pics...Hurray
and the last 2 are lightly sanded and polished with Mothers

Cheers

Cheetah

Another one of my recent scores. I love the shape of this razor. I have found instances of other manufactures intentionally making this shape of blade but no such luck for W&B yet! There still is a chance that the shape is original though.

The first 3 are Ebay pics. In the last 2 pics the blade has been lightly sanded by me to remove rust, then polished with Mothers.

Thanks

Cheetah Meat

Here's another meat cleaver in my collection.
I have an affinity for big blades. I like their size and heft.

I have since gotten rid of the scuffs, rust and water stains by hand sanding this big monster.
Hope to have it professionally restored one day.

The first 3 are the crappy E Bay pics...Hurray
and the last 2 are lightly sanded and polished with Mothers

Cheers

Cheetah

Originally Posted by cheetahmeatpheonix

Another one of my recent scores. I love the shape of this razor. I have found instances of other manufactures intentionally making this shape of blade but no such luck for W&B yet! There still is a chance that the shape is original though.

The first 3 are Ebay pics. In the last 2 pics the blade has been lightly sanded by me to remove rust, then polished with Mothers.

Thanks

Cheetah Meat

That is indeed the original shape. They seem to have only been produced for a handful of years at the end of Williams's reign and the beginning of Victoria's. I have a Greaves and a Joseph Elliot. I've seen, besides W&B, Marshes & Co Pondworks and one other I can't quite recall. They can be a bit of a pain to hone, but I love the shape. You can tell it's the blade design because the spine tapers toward the toe.

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

That is indeed the original shape. They seem to have only been produced for a handful of years at the end of Williams's reign and the beginning of Victoria's. I have a Greaves and a Joseph Elliot. I've seen, besides W&B, Marshes & Co Pondworks and one other I can't quite recall. They can be a bit of a pain to hone, but I love the shape. You can tell it's the blade design because the spine tapers toward the toe.

Can you post pics of the razors you have with that same shape?

Here's my first attempt at a W&B restore. I was successful because the razor arrived in parts. I don't have a dremel or anything like that at the moment...but what I do have is time, some elbows, some grease and whole lot of sand paper.

So check out my progress. I started at 200 and I think that I netted out around 800.
There was a crude etching of the name Arch that I patiently ground down. Then I polished it with some Mothers.

I think that was 8 hours alone to get that pesky name out. The process has be permanently etched in my mind though.

Cheers

Cheetah Meat Pheonix

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

That is indeed the original shape. They seem to have only been produced for a handful of years at the end of Williams's reign and the beginning of Victoria's. I have a Greaves and a Joseph Elliot. I've seen, besides W&B, Marshes & Co Pondworks and one other I can't quite recall. They can be a bit of a pain to hone, but I love the shape. You can tell it's the blade design because the spine tapers toward the toe.

That is awesome news and even better that its a limited edition. Thank you King Williams and Queen Victoria. For this is the most splendid day ofth mine own life. I will go watch some Sheakspeare now and dine on some crumpets and fence and ride a horse.

Cheery Ho yee good fellows. I go in peace

Sir Cheetah Meat

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Can you post pics of the razors you have with that same shape?

Rather than put them in this club (they aren't W&B after all!) I started a new thread over here with the picture.