Thread: Anyone heard of this old fella ?

Evening all !
I recieved a razor today from an ebay auction I won.
The razor has "William Webster Sycamore Works" and a stags head on the tang, and across the blade in small but nicely stamped letters " The old english razor".
It has black plastic type material scales and a pewter spacer.
The blade is a nice curved semi-wedge with coffin cross-section, about 6/8 with about a 3 inch edge.
Original coffin shaped box with "William Webster Sycamore Works Sheffield" written on the box. I paid about £10/$20
I have had the metal polish on it all afternoon and it is now quite shiney with a couple of small dark areas. I will be sending it to Steve at theinvisibleedge to make it shave ready. I think I would stuggle to put an edge on this blade, because of it's shape.
At the moment it is very dull, but the edge doesn't seem damaged.
What do you think, is it worth me posting a picture?
Marcus

Of course we want porn... I mean pictures
Sounds like an interesting razor in the least.

^^ Agreed. You definitely need to post up pics of said razor.

here it is, I hope

Looks like a nice blade, should be well worth those £10 you paid.

Never heard of it, but it looks cool! Looks like a good English razor. Let us know how it shaves!

Nice looking razor Marcus. When you send this to Steve (who is a member I believe but doesn't frequent much going by the member list) can you ask him if he would like to come to a UK SRP bash in Birmingham in September. A honemeister would be a person most welcome! Sorry for the but every opportunity! I will ask him myself too - but hearing it a few times maybe helps.

cheers
Stephen

Before the crash he had the username Blueprinciple....

"The Crash", sounds like some kind of holocaust doesn't it?!

Hi Stephen, Yep, I'll ask him. He is sending me a Genco and I'm sure he will want to know what bit's of my face are still attached

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I was thinking off de-scaling the Webster, polishing it right up and putting some ebony scales I'm working on, on it. But, the razor is complete with proper box and just needs a new bevel and sharpen to be good, so I am a bit reluctant to mess with it.
Anyone got an opinion on whether to mod it?

Hi Guys,

Sorry to ressurct this old thread. I used to be the owner of this exact razor, i think i bought off th op some seven years ago.

I absolutley loved this razor, it was my favourite and my go to one.

Unfortunatley due to the recession around that time i was owed 8 months of my salary from work and i was in dire straights. I was forced to sell all my razors, hones and TM strop.

It was heart breaking have to sell this one especially.

However, i am in a position to buy it back. I dont remember who i sold it too as my ebay listings wont go back that far, but if anyone on this forum has it and is willing to part with it then please pm me.

Kind regards,

Danny