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Thread: Widest American-made Straight?
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03-31-2021, 11:49 PM #1
Tim he did say American made right
“ I,m getting the impression that everyone thinks I have TIME to fix their bikes”
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04-01-2021, 12:03 AM #2
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04-01-2021, 12:09 AM #3
Wide Americans are scarce. Going back to the mid 1800's, lots are 7/8+ but later stuff is rarely larger than 13/16 total width and even those are hard to see.
A Bartlett and Dow from Lowell, Mass. Bit over an inch, I guess.
A huge Geneva Cutlery. I have seen one other, likely the one Rezdog was bidding on.
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04-01-2021, 01:12 AM #4
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04-01-2021, 04:31 PM #5
7/8 Clauss
My doorstop is a Nakayama
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04-02-2021, 12:04 AM #6
Sweet stuff. As much of a sheffield steel lover as I am, in it's hay day the American steel was really, really good. Shumate, Robeson, Torrey, Cattaraugus to name a few, all fabulous shavers that hold an edge famously. That Queen 7/8 is so good I have said that I could throw all my others away.
Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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04-02-2021, 12:26 AM #7
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04-02-2021, 02:38 AM #8
Yeah, I had plenty of helpers willing to help me dispose of the other 140 something.Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17