Thread: A Good Story Though Not A Good Shaver

In a lot of razors I bought on eBay, I found two likely shavers, two I think will be my "learn to hone" razors, and one I call "the cowboy."

I love the scales, wish I had a usable razor with these. But the blade tells, I think, the story. I don't think this was originally a 4/8. This looks like a blade that a man shaved with most of his life. Honed, stropped, shaved with, stropped, re-honed, time and again.

Maybe he saddled up and took one last ride up the mountain, leaving his straight in his kit back at the ranch, hoping an heir, or someone would know it's soul-worth.

But they didn't. Ended up on eBay. But now it lives with me. I won't be shaving with it, but at least though it's story remains unknown and untold, it does not remain un-valued or disrespected.

it looks to me more like a man wanted to shave with it, but didn't know how to make it to do so. or a bit more gentle towards him he accidentally broke the razor and decided to still attempt to use it instead of sending it to a landfill.

properly used razors look like they may have just come out of the factory.

As I could understand, this is B.Worth & Sons razor. Am I right?

Beautiful scales, the over honing on that shoulderless blade is sad.

Yes it's a B. Worth and Sons, Sheffield. See attached picture for close-up.

I love the scales but have no idea what they are made of. So does nobody think it got this way just from years of use?

Most possible, the blade was cracked. And after that was cut and honed. But the work is too bad. IMO.
But the scales are nice.
B. Worth and Sons, Sheffield, 1873 - 1953.

Probably somewhere along the way the razor was dropped and the edge was chipped, so the blade had to be honed excessively to get rid of the chip, it may still shave with a little TLC(proper honing) but it will never be like new, just too much metal missing. By all means the scales are worth saving.BTW the are probably celluloid.