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Two issues from this Newbie. Is there a demonstrable relationship between Wade and Butcher and Gillchrist? And what precisely was that corporate relationship?
Second, is there a list of all of genuine British Royal Cutlers in 19th Century? There must be.
Hope this is the right forum for these questions. If not, I apologize. Still finding my way around this website.
Thanks all.
--Gar1
Advanced search is your friend, especially if you spell Gilchrist correctly.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...ight=Gilchrist
http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ight=Gilchrist
http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ight=Gilchrist
It would probably have been best suited for the "workshop". If they want it moved a Moderator will do it shortly and as for an answer, well that will be forthcoming as well, just not from me.:shrug:
Moved to Razors forum with an expiring redirect for stragglers. :)
:rock:You Da Mod Jimmy:rock:
Thanks for the tip...and for being "nice."
Thank you Gar1 for asking the questions, which resurrected some other threads for me. The whole history of tools/implements/whatever is fascinating.
I'm "only" 65, but grew up in Baltimore in the 50s, where we lived in one of the famed row houses, with a back alley for the trash man and other vendors/deliverymen to use. We had a knife and scissor grinder who would come down the alley pushing a cart with his wheel and other gear and sharpened anything. My mother would have her scissors done and my father would sometime leave out his hedge shears, plane blades or chisels and ask my mother to get them touched up when the guy came through the neighborhood, which was probably monthly. I wish I had my dad's plane and chisels. They were nice ones because after returning from WWII he worked for a while for a tool supply shop.
What a different era!
PS -- Sorry to derail your thread.
One day I'll get some scales made for this 7/8 blade...
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Hi JB - if you're looking for original W&B scales, I can say pretty confidently I have some that would be a good fit for a 7/8. I have to head out now to the out-laws, sorry, the in-laws, but when I get back I can dig them up and post a pic and if you like them I will send them your way - it's no problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHoren
Not sure of the relationship. Gilchrist manufactured 1851 - 1869. I have one that I restored but not to a mirror finish. Shaves like a dream. I actually liked it better than a W & B I had. Point of interest: when Lincoln was assinated he had a Gilchrist pocket knife in his pocket.
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...