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It's a fair enough point, but if you want the top money you need to invest money or invest on time and equipment to get that result. Sheffields that are wedges are just really visually intolerant of...

IDK what the restoration situation is where you are, but imo any large sheffield needs an experienced hand as all of that flat shiny material is really unforgiving to inconsistencies and flaws. I...

Mind printing this out and taking a photo of the blade on it? ...

His finish looks the way it does because he disregarded the importance of sanding in creating a crisp result and went straight to the buffer..

It's much nicer to get things in their raw state. You just get the most complete picture of what you are dealing with and you also remove some potentially nasty variables from the mix. He also hurt...

I'd love to see what a 10/8 Reynolds would fetch on the bay if it exists. They are like the eBay leper of Sheffield wedges for some reason. Maybe ppl don't like the steel being a bit harder..

Yeah, but a big wade and butcher has cachet that a blade made in solingen that was branded for and sold in a hardware store for exactly one month in 1917 just doesn't...

If it were in its raw state and he just put it on a paper scale for dimensions I personally would be more apt to buy it at $700 than this state. You are looking at this a bit wrong. If someone put a...

Was that the first listing cycle for that blade? I find for high cost items, usually, they need to go through a few turns just so ppl have a chance to mobilize funds. Even really hot de stuff needs a...

He should have not messed with that blade himself and sprung on a real pro who preferably makes blades as well to sort out the whole packaging and setup. It's a good example of bad work lowering...

Given the fact that it is a huge piece of wade and butcher steel, I expected it to climb.

Well, certain slates with crusty stamps sell for huge money and slate is as common on earth as dust.. Test enough of it and you are bound to find a brilliant piece, yet ppl pay through the nose....

The big thing about those supermassive sheffields is they need to be designed with some finesse to shave comfortably. Like my wostenholm you did is swooping and has a concave nature designed into it...

It's not a common item... It's a real shame someone who didn't know what they were doing got to mess with it. It would have been nice to see how it was packaged initially. But yeah, I suppose this...

I know it is sacrilege, but you could probably send that to any number of custom makers and have the grinding tweaked if you really wanted. It's a shame he didn't measure the spine with a caliper and...

What I would personally do with that is have a contrasting polish done between the faces and the spine and set in in a nice piece of chocolate brown horn with period washers, preferably, and a new...

If someone paid me to make finding 10/8 sheffields my full time job and I was forbidden from just messaging ppl who posted them on here in the past or on other forums I think maybe I could find two a...

The last two large blades on there were both e l and co. One was a rust bucket, the other had serious issues as well, both were not 10/8 and got very strong cash. 10/8 is hard to get.... All you need...

It's not to my giant Sheffield tastes, but it is more than likely going to fetch stupid money. Poor as the presentation is, it has gotten up to a respectable level so far.. The scales probably would...

The whole presentation of the auction is lazy. No blade on a scale photo, no great stamp photo, a spine thickness measurement would be a huge help to calculate what kind of bevel that thing would...

Personally, I would have been more apt to bid on that in the raw, as found state. Mainly, it is because the rust and everything beneath it is still there so that is the point resto result will have...

Not really, it's more ppl bid what they can afford at any given moment and that is one time of year where liquidity can be rather high for certain ppl...

I would not say it is dremeled to death. The grind lines on the tang are still intact, the stamp is intact, and it shows no outward visual evidence of overheating. It just needs to be put in the...

I personally would not take less than $700 for that if it is that size, but I would also have dropped the $175 or so to have the blade resurfaced by someone who knows what they are doing and have the...