Thread: The "NEW" Wade & Butcher

Has anyone heard anything from them???

I havent seen any updates about anything. I thought they were supposed to be selling razors in 2018, but it seems that that deadline is slipping away. Best of luck to them, if they are still trying to give it a go.

I heard something about this last couple years. Something about using South African steel? There's plenty of Wade's out there if you want the real thing. For a lot less too. Well at least that's the way I see it.

I only heard the consumer's price for a razor was gonna be exuberant and put me off of the idea for, ever.

Great idea of them making razors again but if they end up being too pricey they could price themselves out of business especially if the quality doesn't meet or surpass what was produced in the past.

Even though we are supposed to have better steel today than 100 - 200 years ago for some reason some of the older makes are not as good today as they were years ago.....go figure!

They've been talking about their "Irontusk" razor or something for 2 years now and have failed to deliver anything to this date, and will not do so anymore this year.

I recall seeing a projected price that's over 1000 USD, more like 1500 USD IIRC, or Euros who knows


That's absurd if true.

Also, nothing about the steel is the same, it's being made outside of the UK, and the proprietor has no ties that I am aware of to W&B.
It's more trying to be a continuing of the quality and honor of old.

As long as I can buy Real W&B razors from the mid 1899's for $15.00 I won't be buying a fake for $1,000. A name does not a razor make!

Dave Huffman

Seems we now have several threads to bash this. I figure a waste of time.
It seems apparent it is not going to happen.
Nothing to see here?

Just like there will never be a "new" 1957 fuel-injected Corvette, there will never be another "new" W&B....end of discussion.

I must've missed the other threads, now I'm curious.
It will stay like that for me though, a curiosity at best.
If they ARE made outside Britain then that doesn't seem right to me. Any family ties at all? Hmm.
Perhaps try to get as close to the original steel used as possible? Is that impossible and silly? I'm by no means a metallurgist. Any historians have the recipe?
Maybe give it a different name to honor the past, otherwise it seems like a capitalization on one of (if not the) most well known manufacturers of old times...
A big price tag also..
Any prototypes made? Pics?