Thread: Wade & Butcher Comeback

Wade & Butcher is planning to restart production in 2017. Here is the link: https://wadeandbutcher.com

Hope they are as good as the originals but I don't think they will.

What are your thoughts on this?

Very interesting I wonder who's behind this relaunch of this iconic brand and can they do it justice we wait with bated breath.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

Very interesting I wonder who's behind this relaunch of this iconic brand and can they do it justice we wait with bated breath.

Wondering the same thing. We have seen a few old Solingen brands resurrected with not so great results. There will be no pool of skilled W&B razor makers for them to draw for the restart. Fingers crossed that they get it right from the start.

Bob

Signed up for the newsletter - I'll believe it when I see it and when I get one in hand.

Personally, if this gets off the ground, I'll be suprised if it doesn't end in disaster. If the quality isn't spectacularly high, thus a very premium price, they will fail the brand. High price point then limits customer base - I wish them luck - would be a fantastic brand to see properly resurrected.

This will be very interesting. I really want to see what they come up with.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Signed up for the newsletter - I'll believe it when I see it and when I get one in hand.

Personally, if this gets off the ground, I'll be suprised if it doesn't end in disaster. If the quality isn't spectacularly high, thus a very premium price, they will fail the brand. High price point then limits customer base - I wish them luck - would be a fantastic brand to see properly resurrected.

They got you !! That ad was a phishing attempt by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) to locate you Phrank, they done pinged your line,,, expect a knock on the door in 15 minutes !!

Agreed. Many sites I have visited the blades are 300 plus. Noted some at over a $1000. What puzzles me is who would pay a grand for a straight razor (people with money they don't know what to do with it!) I have been using a straight razor for 20 plus years and everyone has come from an antique store where I paid as little as $5 for the blade and $40 for the most expensive. Yes it takes work to prep the blade to get ready for a shave. My first one I honed on diamond blocks. When I finished up with the fine block I strop ped it and had to go back to work--talk about pull and drag and scrape, Ouch. I have invested into Japanese waters tones, five of them, I purchased some time later Arkansas stones--six of them. I picked up some funny stones from antique dealers for straight razors. One was smoother than the Arkansas translucent polish stone, the other was some where near a medium grit. I have other gadgets, but Arkansas stones seem to be the ones I stay with. I like the Japanese, but it takes too much time to prep them to use.
Not attempting to be nosey, but what is the most you have paid for a blade--if you don't mind? As I said all my razors come from antique dealers and have never bought a brand new one outright.

Would you please explain how/why the Japanese hones take too much time to prep?

Producing a fine custom razor that looks like a Wade & Butcher is certainly possible. But if they stray into production razors ?? Can you imagine the nightmare of flooding the market with a inferior blade with the appearance of a FBU . Hopefully any modern blades will be readily distinguishable from the originals.

Doubtful that a production razor would have horn scales and the box would be modern so those probably would be one way to tell.

Originally Posted by Wirm

Producing a fine custom razor that looks like a Wade & Butcher is certainly possible. But if they stray into production razors ?? Can you imagine the nightmare of flooding the market with a inferior blade with the appearance of a FBU . Hopefully any modern blades will be readily distinguishable from the originals.