Thread: The Stub-Tailed Shavers

Originally Posted by brothers

Guys, I don't know why I don't post much here, but now I've got a question after seeing all of the above stubtails that you guys have restored. I haven't done anything to my Wade other than honing it and shaving with it. Do you guys have a consensus as to whether it's better to shine them up, or should I just leave it as it was found? You can see the picture of this razor up at post #39 on page 4. I'd really like to see what you guys say.

Took a lot of years to get that honest wear and patina. Really in nice shape IMHO. I wouldn't dream of shining it up. It has character as it is.

Here is my new W.M. Greaves stub tail. At least it is now since someone cut the tail down. It's an oldie with the WR on the tang.

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Here's my John Barber I restored. It has bone scales with a lead wedge. Triple stacked washers brass, brass, SS. The biggest I filed into flowers. I love this razor!!!!

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Nice job on the John Barber scales and the flowered stacked washers look great. Nice idea. These big boys are great shavers as you probably know.

Any info on gratian warranted would be awesome. Will try and post pics. Smart phones not being cooperative.

Hello everybody, i'm browsing the forums for a while but never posted before so this is my first post.
I just loved everything i've seen on this thread since I recently found myself as a stub tail lover.
As for now I don't own too many stub-tail/very early razor but I'm definitely doing my best trying to place my hand on some...
I have in my possession three old French razors with no tail at all (two of them comes in a nice honing case).
But my favorite is the j.cam.patent that i've rescaled just today! These scales were removed from another old french razor and seems to be made from a horn.

Hasn't been a post in a while here, so here's a bunch of stubbies

The crazy thing about this is I was just sitting here thinking, " I wonder if it'd be rude to ask Scienceguy or Voidmonster to post up some shots of a big bunch of their REALLY old stuff." So, thanks for reading my mind!

Originally Posted by regularjoe

The crazy thing about this is I was just sitting here thinking, " I wonder if it'd be rude to ask Scienceguy or Voidmonster to post up some shots of a big bunch of their REALLY old stuff." So, thanks for reading my mind!

Since posting that one picture I realized I left out about 7 razors, but some of them are in pretty bad shape, and I have this nagging suspicion that there's an 8th that I'm forgetting about.

Well I hate to post the same pic in a bunch of places but since this thread just got brought back up I just did a restoration on this John Barber stub tail!

Heres a razor I picked up at a antique shop for $5....and Idea on what the inlay is? When made ?
Thanks, as I am really new to this straight razor community!