Thread: Wade & Butcher manufacture date

Looks like on one side near the rear one of the scales has a worn spot/diviot missing on the edge. But it is fixable if the right guy is doing the work. New scales of black hone would be nice but to keep it all original would be better. Just depends on how original you like things.

Hi,

My W&B straight razor was renovated. Unfortunately, blade had two cracks – one near the top and second near the heal. After renovation razor looks different, but it is fully usable. Shaves very well. It’s rather gentle. Next we will change scales to horn. For now we have used old (broken) Rich Abr. Herder scales.

It looks different, but it is still very pretty. It looks like a really nice razor some great restoration work indeed.

Yes. Restored razor looks different than before. I removed stabiliser for easy honing and made some changes of the point and tang.
The blade is little bit shorter. This change gave the posibility for keep original point shape.
Afer reduce width of blade I made the same with tang. So the proportion is still close to original.
Removing of the stabiliser was a must because usable razor was a rule.


Edit:
And root causes of changes

I realy dont want to be a party pooper but have you thaught about why the heel of the blade has been redecorated?...i mean it seems that someone took this blad eto a belt grinder and ground off a few milimiters of the toe and to portion of the blade....

I'm thinking there was an issue in that area that required some metal removal....a chip...a crack maybe...
Make sure whoever is restoring this razor can check that the blade is free of cracks and can hone it properly....that portion near the heel where the bade got ground wil most likely not hit the hones without some fancy wristwork.

my 2 cents

This is exactly what I’ve supposed. For sure this is the razor with sad history.

Fine looking razor. Too bad about the cracks but it turned out very nice in the end.

Good save on this. IMO, it sits pretty in those scales. I would change nothing!