Thread: Wade and Butcher fever!

Jimmy, this is great collection, luv the spine on the first one, the Damascus one is killer too

Wish mine had the HEATHEN CHINEE on the back side.

That first razor Jimmy posted reminded me that I've got a blade w/no scales shaped like that one with the AMERICAN RAZOR and eagle etch on it. Been watching for a set of period scales to get it properly dressed.
Poor pic;


I'm of the same mind set as Jimmy. I like 'em in original clothes and don't care for 'em shined up like a new penny. I figure they got their warts and scratches by honest wear and that is as much of their history as the razor itself. I generally just clean off the active rust and give a light polish with Mothers and run 'em.

I have two blades with original scales, they looked solid so they wouldn't potentially damage the blade or me, and they weren't bug bitten. If they are in solid shape, I would probably keep the original. If I swap out the scales, I usually ask Valery to salvage what hardware he can to the use.

This one razor, didn't know when I first won it, it was my first W&B, but it is in awesome condition, this one is all original:



And in terms of polish, everyone knows I like em gunk free and nice and shiny, because I like shiny things....

Originally Posted by Phrank

I have two blades with original scales, they looked solid so they wouldn't potentially damage the blade or me, and they weren't bug bitten. If they are in solid shape, I would probably keep the original. If I swap out the scales, I usually ask Valery to salvage what hardware he can to the use.

This one razor, didn't know when I first won it, it was my first W&B, but it is in awesome condition, this one is all original:



And in terms of polish, everyone knows I like em gunk free and nice and shiny, because I like shiny things....

Phrank, you have ADD too?

Great pics!

Here is my 8/8 Celebrated Spike point (excuse the flash muddying up the pic a bit) -

Originally Posted by guitstik

Phrank, you have ADD too?

LOL - no, if anything an addictive brain that when I do something, I do to extremes...I've learned over the years to let some of that go, and enjoy the now, much better way to live, but some things are part of our nature, and I get a real sense of joy finding these pieces of history, and I take the time each day, to focus on shaving, and not let my head start running away with things I have to do, or should've done, or could've done differently, helps set the tone of the day for me.

Aside from that, I also like clean, shiny razors that the water beads off of.....

Originally Posted by PFunkDaddy

Great pics!

Here is my 8/8 Celebrated Spike point (excuse the flash muddying up the pic a bit) -

Sigh...a spike point Celebrated, FBU...I've only ever found one like yours PFD, and one other chopper...sweet blade!

Originally Posted by Phrank

LOL - no, if anything an addictive brain that when I do something, I do to extremes...I've learned over the years to let some of that go, and enjoy the now, much better way to live, but some things are part of our nature, and I get a real sense of joy finding these pieces of history, and I take the time each day, to focus on shaving, and not let my head start running away with things I have to do, or should've done, or could've done differently, helps set the tone of the day for me.

Aside from that, I also like clean, shiny razors that the water beads off of.....

My wife knows that when I focus on something that she had better put on her rubbers because there is a tsunami coming that will envelope both of us in a crushing wave of enthusiasm for that subject. But after 30+ years together, she has not figured out that all of my interests have one common theme and usually those interests have lain dormant until some spark ignites it to become a raging inferno of passion for it. Fortunately, that inferno has never wavered in my passion for her. I do have a tendency to drive her crazy with my single minded approach to a subject. She invariably knows that any conversation will be about said subject. I made the comment about wanting to take a motorcycle ride to Cape Girardeau one weekend and she instinctively knew that it had something to do with SR's.

Any time I see a W & B owned by someone other than Phrank I think he is either asleep when it sold, indisposed by nature, letting his wife know she exists or is a coma. Go for it Bishop Prank, your Pope has given you dispensation for W & B acquisitions (greed in other religions).

Good looking blades gentlemen. Just something about W&B's, they're like the Harley Davidson's of straight razors...