Thread: The Stub-Tailed Shavers

Originally Posted by engine46

Here's an old Wosty .......

Wow, it's a beauty.

Best effort for now. I need to calculate the bevel angle to see what it does or doesn't need

Found this one a couple weeks ago and have been meaning to add it here. I love this razor!

The bevel angle toe is top of the list and each subsequent line is 1/4 down till the heel at the end.


Did some initial work tonight

Marshes & Shepard Stub. The faint remains of the tops of ENGLAND remain. No other tang marks to be found. Maybe she was reground at some point?

Originally Posted by BadB

Marshes & Shepard Stub. The faint remains of the tops of ENGLAND remain. No other tang marks to be found. Maybe she was reground at some point?

Nice razor for sure. I bet we are seeing the tops of "OLD ENGLISH" up there by the spine.

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Nice razor for sure. I bet we are seeing the tops of "OLD ENGLISH" up there by the spine.

Thank you, you are correct. I was going off the picture I took a while back. Grabbed the razor and my loop, it is English with very a very faint D before it. Super!

Forgot to add, the ivory has been laminated to g10 inside the scales....not sure if thats good, but thats how it came, already restored.

Old ivory laminated to G-10 is a good way to preserve it. Thin old ivory tends to get a little brittle. I have done it with old bone too.

Honed the clark on an old rock coticule. It took a pretty stunningly sharp edge. I had to abort the first two attempts to hone in order to ease back a bit of a belly this had by the spine on the back face that was making it act strange on the hones. You can see I got the bevel more or less equalized. I haven't shaved for a few days as you can see. Made me force the issue to get this going. Obliterated heavy growth effortlessly. Not too shabby for a late 1780s early 1790s blade that looked like solid rust a couple of weeks ago..

I used tape wear and anomalies in the rear of the back bevel to map out what had to go and grinded out by hand very carefully using 400-2k wet dry followed by polish. Once I got that out of the way I hit the apex in short order.