Thread: Need help identifying this wedge...

Can't find out much about this one. 6/8, no jimps, medium length tail. I think that I can see something like "GOOD" or "WOOD" with an "&" on the first line, and WILL SHAVE WELL on the second. Pretty close to a true wedge. Got it for a song. Any info? All you wedge experts, time to chime in!


I have a few slabs of 3/16 Purpleheart that I am going to cut some scales from. Ready to get this underway, but wanted to see if I could I.D. it before sanding it down...

My guess is that it originally said, "Lather good and you will shave well." Just a guess, though.

Be prepared to spend some real quality time honing that razor. Unless the light is playing tricks it looks like there is no bevel on one side and a really weird looking one on the other. You'll have to completely start from scratch on those edges.

All I can tell you is its an old English razor. They were marked cast steel. probably mid 1800s I would guess.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Be prepared to spend some real quality time honing that razor. Unless the light is playing tricks it looks like there is no bevel on one side and a really weird looking one on the other.

No, I think that it is just the way that the scan looks. I thought that I had taken a few pics of the backside before I started sanding, but I guess I didn't. It seems to have the same amount of bevel front and back, and the "hollow" area seemed to be about the same on both sides. The wear coming down from the top and up from the bottom that you see on the toe of the blade does not seem to take away from the shape of the blade, as the spine thickness does not change at all. How can I test the shape of the bevel? Can I rub something on the surface of both sides then run it on the strop? It seems like it would show the wear on the surfaces then, right?


I need to visit the resto section of the forum.

Isn't that a Wade & Butcher? I think it says "You Lather Well I Will Shave Well"

Could be, but the W&B's are frosted, not etched, and I've never seen a W&B that didn't say Wade & Butcher in one form or another somewhere on the razor.

With the W&B's that I've seen that say "warranted" or "cast steel" on the tang, they have "Wade & Butcher" on the front of the spine.

That is one of the most logical things that it could have said, I guess. I have not been able to find anything on the database with etching like this, and can't tell if there was a name on the blase at some point. Maybe someone on here will have a bit of info for me.