Wade & Butcher's Holy Grail

Just had to show this one off. I waited a long time for a nice one to come along and it arrived today. It will not take much to clean this one up. The blade is 9/8. The faces are a satin finish with the grind lines visible. The spine and tang are polished bright. No one has monkeyed with this razor. There is little hone wear and it should take a nice thin even bevel. The scales are horn with a lead wedge and no sign of any delamination or bug bites. Wonderful beehive brass collars. This will be the largest blade in my collection. I have an 8/8+ but not a true 9/8.
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Congratulations! It looks gargantuan.

What a BEAST! Tell us how he does.

Now THAT is a razor! Wow!

Beautiful! The Wade & Butcher FBU's are just amazing to look at and use. Congratulations:tu

When all else fails pick up a W&B

Congratulations!
Finding a Wade & Butcher in that kind of shape is almost impossible.
That is absolutely beautiful. Nothing like a big bladed Wade.
Enjoy!!

Pete <:-}

Beautiful blade, I shaved with that razor's twin not six hours ago before heading out to a meeting.

Nothing like a huge chunk of Sheffield steel to peel a couple of layers of whiskers and skin off the face.

The tang stamps looks in great condition, congratulations on a great find!

Congratulations on a fantastic shaver!

It sure looks nice :)

Damn lucky man. Never came across one of those.

Fantastic...It does not get any better than that IMHO. Congrats !

Sweet dreams are made of this.

Now that's a score...

Enjoy

Congrats! I'm still patiently looking for mine.

Very nice. I just used mine today!
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Beautiful razor. So far, a 8/8 is the largest razor I've handled. I was fortunate to recently get a couple of W&B's in great condition as well. They haven't been honed yet, but I love the look of them and feel of them. It is nice having a bigger blade in your hand. I've heard the weight of the blade pretty much shaves for you.

Did you polish the scales? If so, what did you use?

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Originally Posted by JP5

Did you polish the scales? If so, what did you use?

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I have done nothing to this razor. These pictures are as found. The condition is amazing. I believe this is the way it left the factory. Sans the rust on the spine of course.
When I make horn scales I finish with 600,1200 grit paper and then polish on a spiral stitched cotton wheel loaded with Jantz Supplies Black Magic compound and end with Caswell Blue Rouge. It depends on the effect I'm looking for but if I really want to make them sparkle that is what I use.

Fantastic find, pretty amazing that it survived all these years in that condition, Enjoy!

Whoa! That's a big blade. Nice.


Mike

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Originally Posted by karlej

I have done nothing to this razor. These pictures are as found. The condition is amazing. I believe this is the way it left the factory. Sans the rust on the spine of course.
When I make horn scales I finish with 600,1200 grit paper and then polish on a spiral stitched cotton wheel loaded with Jantz Supplies Black Magic compound and end with Caswell Blue Rouge. It depends on the effect I'm looking for but if I really want to make them sparkle that is what I use.

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They are very beautiful blades, and it looks like ours could be twins, found mine in very good shape as well:

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she's huge

Gorgeous razor good find