Thread: Info Request - E L & Co

That blade is huge. It looks like the back tail fin off a 56 Caddy.

Originally Posted by Oldengaerde

Would it be possible you misread Co with an underscored o for CS? Russel Baldridge had a similar razor here.

There's at least still one EL & Co in Sheffield, but I doubt it's related. Hope this helps the search; I'm at work now, so unfortunately no time to do it myself now.

It's highly possible. I'm getting old and my eyes aren't what they used to be, even with magnification. I'll take another look if I get home at a reasonable time this evening.

I decided I would give it a few shaves before any restoration work so I took it to a hone last night. No tape and I got it to an edge in about 20 minutes. It's not where I would call the bevel set yet but it's close. I wanted to do more but ran out of time. I used a 600 grit Chosera w/ slurry and then w/o slurry. I'll put a few more minutes on this hone some time in the near future and then move up to a 2000 Chosera. Can't wait to take this bad boy for a spin!

I came up empty trying to identify your huge new whacker too. Looks awesome and I hope it is a great shaver. Just a thought; is it possible that it started life as a wedge, and was even more massive? Lots of pre 1850 wedges were reground to the new fangled hollow look, after it became popular. Can you imagine that blade as a full wedge?

Sorry to disappoint you but what you have is not a razor at all. It's a damn machette!!

Croaker, It's almost a full wedge now. I'll try and post a pic in the near future of after/while honing to show the hone wear. Anything is possible and it may have been a full wedge at one time.

Here are some crappy pics showing the hone wear and a blade profile. Sorry about the pic quality, Jr isn't here and it's really not much to show. I have about an hour in on honing over the past three days. Just can't seem to find a good chunk of time to put into honing it yet. I have to give it a good look at later and see if the bevel needs more work, maybe another 15 minutes or so, the n just polishing. Right no wit's off the 2k hone.