Thread: Gillchrist and Wade and Butcher/ The Royal Warrants

Haroldg48,

Thank you and you did not derail the thread at all. Those moments in personal, national, geographic and cultural history like you describe are gone forever--except perhaps in these threads.

I sometimes think there is too much manufactured mystique in, for example, hones and honing lore, but I often am sanding a 150 year old blade and I cannot help but wonder at all that must have happened for it to get into my hands--the fact that a week from now i can actually shave with it is a tribute to the steel and the artists who ground it so it could be handed down for generations--what modern product is thought of in those terms?

What did your itinerant hone master use to sharpen the various tools?

That would be a crime if you did not--of course, if you wish me to take the blade off your hands...