Any info on the company? Few nicks in blade that should easily hone out but otherwise a nice looking blade....scales are fugly replacement someone put on it but I can fix that....next project possibly since I busted that WB chopper.
Opinions?
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Any info on the company? Few nicks in blade that should easily hone out but otherwise a nice looking blade....scales are fugly replacement someone put on it but I can fix that....next project possibly since I busted that WB chopper.
Opinions?
Oh plus a shot of half of my display in my shop. Eye candy.
Nice razor! Voidmonster just wrote an History on Greaves: Straight Razor Place - A brief history of William Greaves & Sons
Like the Greaves, just got one myself here recently, and really like it. Definitely nice display at your shop :tu
It's a little hard to guess when that model was made. I've only seen one other in that style, and I think they used that die-stamp on different models of razor over a long period. So I have to guess a pretty wide range and say sometime between 1815 and 1835.
With the notched spine?
Cool write up btw, thanks for the link martin
I am thinking it is pre-Sheafworks. The spine treatment was popular with several makers. Some just did it on the show side!
Hard heavy wedge, well-used. It would take a lot to get it going. IMO it needs a breadboard and 3 layers of tape and a new bevel set on a DMT...onward thru the fog!
Good hunk of steel to be certain! 'Greaveses Have Souls!'
Yeah def giving it the tape treatment, and a fresh new bevel, too cool to leave in the crypt, and has zero pitting, so other than a lot of honing between customers should be simple enough
Yeah, the period between 1815 and 1835 saw a huge variety of styles. I'm glad you liked the writeup!
Pre-Sheaf Works seems most likely, but every time I think I've got their chronology of design down, something comes along to knock me off my box!
I'd never seen one with the half-swaged spine on only one side! I'm generally just a sucker for that style...
And yes, that razor wants a fresh, working bevel... And it'll be work... And it'll be worth it!
GREAVES, WILLIAM
Shefflield
1780-1816 ("Old Sheffield Razors" by Lummus. Antiques, December 1922 p.261-267)
~Richard
Here is a Barlow. Yes...an experiment in Str8Shooter's Duracote. :D
Ornate front, nuthin on the back!
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Thanks void, think itll be put to work after i finish taking a tiny nick out of a boker I was working on today at work between cuts. Need someone to donate (or sell ;-) ) me some burl strips for scales for the greaves, pretty sure thatll be the route ill be going.
Oooo update me on the duracote, just handed over a shotgun today to my gunsmith friend to be duracoted, I can get him to do me one haha