Thread: Wade and Butcher FBU

Wow, great find! I have been on the lookout for one, but refuse to pay $300 for one on eBay. Just waiting to get lucky as well. Seeing folks on here always shows that I still have a chance, haha. Anyway, I'd clean up the scales with neatsfoot oil (Amazon's got it for a few bucks, I bought the Sole brand I think) and get her honed up and she'll be ready to go! Congrats man.

So I spent a good portion of my free time this week doing some work on this razor and got some great results. I wet sanded the blade to remove some of the staining on the blade, but managed to leave a good bit of patina so it still has that nice vintage look. I used neatsfoot oil on the scales which did a great job of bringing them back to life a bit.

I also noticed through cleaning that this thing had a really good bevel set already. It was obviously well taken care of by its previous owner. I decided to strop it a bit and see what it did, and after the initial stropping it was taking hair off my arm with ease. I the. Took it to the paste side of my strop and went back and forth a few times from paste to strop, and it was popping hairs off midway with great ease. I shaved with it yesterday and today and it shaves like a dream, such a smooth shave!

Thanks for the advice guys! Here are some pics after cleaning.Attachment 133636Attachment 133637