Thread: Wade and Butcher For Barbers Use WR - a rare one

I have to agree that I don't think it was a regrind. Looks fantastic either way.

Ground, Re-Ground, buffed in Foo-Foo dust, whatever...

That is one great looking razor, thanks for sharing..

On ones from that era, the blade slogans were usually a die-stamp, not an etch, and consequently deep enough to survive a really light surface grind.

That said, never discount the possibility that the original grind was just a little bit wacky. Each guy responsible for a part of that razor did 30 or more that same day.

wow! is it truly magnetic?!?

When I hear the word "re-grind" or "re-ground" it makes me think of some serious sparks flying and heavy steel removal on a grinding wheel. Not touching up the blade with high grit sand paper. A nice find and nice blade indeed.

I'll try to get some better pics tonight with my macro lens so we can get better evidence. I have handled a lot of blades where the crocus polish is disturbed (asymmetrically or non-professional looking), but where very little metal was taken off, and the same is the case here leading to my 'regrind' thought, but maybe regrind isn't the right word. Maybe it was just a worker who went back over the blade face with another wheel.

Here's a macro shot of the border between the blade face and the tang. It should be seamless but it has grinding marks on the blade face.

I see what you mean. Pretty lightly done. Could be that 'last pass' or later clean-up. These things could tell a story!

Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

Here's a macro shot of the border between the blade face and the tang. It should be seamless but it has grinding marks on the blade face.

Hmm. Yeah.

On one hand, it looks like it's definitely been touched by a grinder or something. On the other, the oxidized spots in the long cut look to be the same age and character as the ones on the blade.

Maybe it was just cleaned with a fine, rotary wire brush? I'm also not seeing any sign that it dug into the transition between spine and blade face.

That one's real hard to tell.

I know very little about this so a question- "the vertical lines are from a grinder? Did they ever look like this from being ground by hand on a grinding wheel?"

I have a few older blades that have these faint lines too. Does that automatically mean they were re-ground? Or is it because the lines go in the seam between blade and tang?