truly beautiful restoration. your patience and dedication was well rewarded in the end. what stone/honing progression are you going to use?
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truly beautiful restoration. your patience and dedication was well rewarded in the end. what stone/honing progression are you going to use?
That's a great job Mike!:tu I have a Wheatsheaf somewhere that has an etch on it if I remember right. It wasn't that bad either probably the same thing you did here is all it will need. I'm willing to bet it shaves like any of the other old Sheffield razors.
Bevel set on chosera, then to a Washita, a Swatty, a slurried Thurigan diluted to water,( Not quite razor grade IMO) finished with water on a B/G Escher.
Then to a leaded linen strop, and a progression of leather starting with a heavy draw, finishing on either a Unknown Russian Tanned, Roo, or shell strop. All depends on how it feels through the progression of strops I use.
I believe an edge doesn't end at the stone, it stops at the strop. It can either be refined, or destroyed at the strop...no matter how perfect the bevel. [emoji6]
No, it's a book but it's worth having & has most of the Sheffield manufacturers but some aren't in there. The book was around $58 if I remember right but it's about 2 inches thick just guessing. I was trying to take a pic of one of their adds but it keeps getting a black spot in it. Gonna try to scan it.
You go online & order it & they print ya up a copy.
Here's a link where to buy it:
Tweedale's Directory of Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers 1740-2013: Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition by Geoffrey Tweedale (Paperback) - Lulu
Looks like theres a discount.
I was wrong about the price. it's $46.59. Maybe at the time w/shipping it may have been the price I quoted earlier.
Beautiful Mike, great job.