Thread: Wheatsheaf Cutlery Co.

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! 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.

Originally Posted by sloanwinters

truly beautiful restoration. your patience and dedication was well rewarded in the end. what stone/honing progression are you going to use?

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]

Originally Posted by engine46

That's a great job Mike! 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.

I just wish I could have found some info on the company. They must have been short lived.

Originally Posted by outback

I just wish I could have found some info on the company. They must have been short lived.

Mike I have info on them in my Tweedale's Sheffield Directory under Wheatley Brothers LTD.

Originally Posted by engine46

Mike I have info on them in my Tweedale's Sheffield Directory under Wheatley Brothers LTD.

Is that an online directory, or a book you have.?

Originally Posted by outback

Is that an online directory, or a book you have.?

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.

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Beautiful Mike, great job.

Hey, what can I say, its a product of 3M now. [emoji1] That .5 micron stuff was really neat to sand with, but the trizac doesn't like steel, just chews it up. Better left for plastic scales I spose.