Thread: Wade and Butcher FBU

Picked this up recently. Haven't done anything to it yet. It has some very strange wear I don't quite understand.

Looks as if a wedge reground more concave back in the day. The single stabilizer up close is a giveaway.
Should shave great!

Are you talking about the corrosion where the blade touches the scales up near the spine, toe end ?

Otherwise looks like one of the straightest I've seen.

Looks like a bit of 'Ghost grind' at the tip. Could be the grinder went in a bit too high and narrow on a pass, decided something needs to be changed, and tried to duplicate it on the other side, went on to do a fair job. Should not mean squat. I would breadboard the brute to my smiling preference, put at least 2 layers on the spine. Light, worn DMT honed. Onward and forward!

A video showing all the quirks of this blade. Best is that failed third pin hole that is too far back so the tail would never have had clearance to open the blade fully.

Agree with Tom. Looks like the marks are some remnants of a regrind.
That 3rd pin was not thought out too carefully.

Looks pretty straight as I thought. Should hone without much difficulty.

You could possibly craft a thin wedge to give ideal depth on closing & then fill those 3rd pin holes.

It really lays on the hone pretty evenly. I should have figured with how tidy the bevel seems. I think the thing to do would be to remove all pins, heat the scales carefully and bind them to something flat and rigid to reset their shape and remove that bulge by the wedge best I can. They are very pliable, actually. Kind of on the fence about whether those scales are worth all the trouble

Horn scales. Almost always , worth it.

I agree, looks like a grind attempt but that shouldn't affect anything. It looks like it will hone ok. The scales look as though as they have spread apart previously which is what a lot of those do. I usually fix warped or bent horn with hot boiling water & reshape it wearing welding gloves. It always works out good in the end. You fix those scales & the blade should sit up higher like it should. The razor can be saved with a little work. It should look & perform well in the end result.

Besides saying, once again, the Wade & Butcher FBU is one of the most wanted razors in my collection, as well as admiring you all who have one, I am very glad to see you are using my straight razor ruler!
And, by seeing the pictures, it seems I need to update the ruler and to expand it in order to measure blades higher than 8/8! I will do that, sooner or later...