Hi!
Does anyone know what is manufacture date of this Wade & Butcher straight?
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Thank you in advance.
Mirek
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Hi!
Does anyone know what is manufacture date of this Wade & Butcher straight?
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Thank you in advance.
Mirek
Hard to tell from the pictures. The lack of the country of manufacture could put it before 1891. If I had to guess I would say 1860. I am sure others will have some input. Nice Razor by the way. Good luck.
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I agree. With the looks of the tail i think your in the ball park. But i dont know much. :)
Thank you. The razor will be renovated by the member of SRP. I will present works results.
Mirx, I would tend to agree with these gents your razor appears to be right around 1850- 1860's. It will be beautiful when all done up.
Welcome to SRP. Post some pix after the renovation and keep those beautiful original old scales with the blade. ;)
I have no clue about the age but it looks very nice, please post pics of it all cleaned up
Scales will be rather difficult to save. Maybe you do not see this on my pictures, but they are very damaged. It is something like decay. I even have thought they are wooden. Because after renovation I will use it for regular shave, I believe it is better idea to make the same new scales - same shape black horn.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
Let who ever is doing the restoration see is they are salvageable. You can always put new pants on it. It's amazing what can be done with horn scales.
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They are horn just dried out. More can be saved than one thinks :)
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.
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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
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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....Attachment 269832
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! :)
