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    Default A Wade&Butcher, any idea is welcome

    Hi sRp folks,

    i acquiered a new straight since yesterday. its mark is pretty gone out/erased on the blade, i can only read

    " ..... By
    ...... ER
    ....FIELD "

    i would like to be 100% sure before clean it out and get shave ready. do you think there is some other old sheffield manufacturor which can be its mark?

    i add two pictures i took today,

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    Looks the part, but your pics arent very helpful. I'm sure its worth a scrub and a honing from the looks of it.

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    Hard to tell from photos. Look with a good magnifier. Sometimes it is too faint for the named eye but can be seen under magnification. Either way not a bad looking razor. I would clean it, hone it and enjoy it.

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    sorry for the pics here some news.

    it worth or not, i will restore it. i like its look but i would like to be sure before polish it.

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    From the looks of that I would say its a Wade & Butcher. Looking at the tangs of some of mine the placement of the letters in relation to eachother and the shape of the blade i would be comfortable saying your right. Looks to me like you will lose the rest of the stamp if you get the scratches out of the tang let alone any of the pitting. Either way it should shave great!

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    Could also try to apply some cold bluing solutionin the mark area and sand with 2000 grit to remove the high spots. May expose enough of the original lettering to make out more. But as others have said, looks like a WB and certainly worth cleaning up to see how she performs..
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    thanks, just wanted to be sure for its manufacturor. certanly i will go from 1500 meshs till 8000 than pastes. but i don't rather to use cold blue method. i've never did it, i afraid to get blade a bad tremp.

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    My guess is it read:
    Manufactured By
    Wade & Butcher
    Sheffield
    That is how a couple of mine are stamped.

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    Th anks for identification guys, I was just not sure about it.

    This afternoon I cleaned it up. Not too much, I did not want it with a mirror polish so it was a speed session of polish. Then I started to hone razor
    As you see it has a bevel kind of a smile and between the largest point of the bevel and the middle there is a flown. So I get it right in the line but after coticule I realized the point of the razor is sharpener than the heel. So I left it like that. I recently had same history with an other smile bevel but its heel was less large than this wade n butcher. So id like to ask you guys if can help me with some advise to get its heel same level/sharp as the point. Need to make it lose some largeness from the point for ita heel touch better in the hone?

    I read some other posts too about smile kind of bevels and there were saying to hone with rolling passes. This doesn't mean so much thing for me so I would to know if that might be the answer of my trouble ? And what does this mean really?

    Thanks in advance

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    Looks to be frowning from the widest point to the heel. Extensive honing job, I think!
    Breadboard/high-angle honing work.
    The pits will remain till it's dust. Get the frown out and see if a bevel comes in first.
    You might want to put it aside and find something easier to begin with? JMO
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