A lotta metal for a frameback! 8/8 W&B.

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10-18-2014, 05:53 AM
Voidmonster

A lotta metal for a frameback! 8/8 W&B.

Life for me lately has entailed having needles stuck into my face 4 out of 7 days this week. It's gotten in the way of productivity, fun, and just general everything. Kids, listen to Uncle Zak. Don't wait 30 years before going to the dentist. You won't be as lucky as me!

I've only got one more root canal to enjoy before I'm done for a little bit, so I figured tonight was the time to test out a bit of kit I got some time ago -- the new Petzvel lens.

http://theshiveringbeggar.com/wp-con...07e554337a.jpg

It's a modern recreation of a 19th century camera lens. You change the aperture by slotting in those little plates (which means you can have cute, shaped bokeh if that's your idea of fun). Focus is done with the knob on the side. Shockingly, it works amazingly well on my fancy-ass modern mirrorless camera (though I needed an adapter).

All this to take some pictures of this little fella.

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It's a mostly 8/8 Wade & Butcher frameback. Those are the standard FBU scales it's sitting in.

Most likely made around 1850-1860. It's heavy for a frameback. Took a great edge, too!

Here's an artsy-focus picture of it and my John Barber 'Particularly Made for Barber's Use' razor. They're quite a pair!

http://theshiveringbeggar.com/wp-con...10/DSC1120.jpg
10-18-2014, 06:03 AM
Phrank

All I can say is, "WOW" to the frameback...and "EEEEK" to the dentist...root canals are not fun by any means!

Great pics BTW!
10-18-2014, 06:07 AM
Voidmonster

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Originally Posted by Phrank

All I can say is, "WOW" to the frameback...and "EEEEK" to the dentist...root canals are not fun by any means!

Great pics BTW!

The lens is long enough that it got in the way of taking more detailed pictures. I'll need a bigger light-tent to use that sucker! Kind of appropriate for the razor...

Luckily, the first root canal was no big deal at all, and it looks like #2 isn't gonna be bad either -- these happened before anything bad happened to the nerve, but the tooth just didn't provide enough cover for'em.

It cracks me up that they still use gutta percha to fill the teeth! Wish I could find a source on the glue. It'd be handy to be able to glue old vulcanite scales.
10-18-2014, 06:11 AM
Redcane

Beautiful razors and great pictures. Hope the dentist visit went well.
10-18-2014, 07:22 AM
RezDog

Nice lens, nice razor and you are not the only one getting some catch up dental work. I bet your dentist is close by though.
10-18-2014, 11:36 AM
Razorfeld

Just looked up gutta percha for the hell of it since I woke up to early by far. Malaysian tree product. Referred to as a rubber compound used in treating root canals. One source said aspirin has more side effects than gutta percha. I would think dental supply houses could supply, or ding your dentist for some. Tell him why you want it and maybe get a convert to straight razor shaving.
10-18-2014, 04:08 PM
edhewitt

Richard beat me to it, the answer to where gutta perch is available from is in your post surely zak :) Perhaps all the anesthetic has made you daft :)
10-18-2014, 07:06 PM
engine46

Very beautiful framebacks. I really love those a lot!!!!!!!!
10-19-2014, 10:39 AM
llalm

i have a Greaves&Sons frameback, which looks similar your W&B frameback. beautiful blades all together!
10-19-2014, 12:48 PM
guitstik

I love that petzval lens, wouldn't mind having that on my 8x10 Kodak bellows camera. I need to get back into shooting wet plate coloidian. Recently, frame backs have become my razors of choice and those are beuts.
10-22-2014, 03:23 PM
dhat

Gorgeous set, thanks for sharing.
11-01-2014, 05:02 AM
Voidmonster

I had the opportunity to clean up the W&B frameback. It's a sweet, sweet shaver.

http://theshiveringbeggar.com/wp-con...10/DSC0931.jpg

http://theshiveringbeggar.com/wp-con...10/DSC0932.jpg

http://theshiveringbeggar.com/wp-con...10/DSC0934.jpg

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Original scales with a small piece grafted onto the pile side above the pivot. New custom washers because it was missing one washer and the originals were punched out of a nickel/copper alloy I didn't have any color match for -- somewhere between your usual bright brass and nickel-silver.

Otherwise just a bunch of cleaning, pinning and a wee bit of honing. Even after a serious buff, it took an edge with no trouble at all.
11-01-2014, 05:51 AM
engine46

That's a beautiful frameback Zak!
11-02-2014, 04:39 AM
llalm

how did you manage to get between the corners on the frameback? I tried cleaning my greaves, but only the corners shows the heaviest of the pitting.
12-04-2014, 05:41 AM
Voidmonster

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Originally Posted by llalm

how did you manage to get between the corners on the frameback? I tried cleaning my greaves, but only the corners shows the heaviest of the pitting.

I'm sorry I forgot to reply to you!

I used a lot of tools to clean it up, including a couple of small Dremel wheels. The Dremel wire brush did most of the work getting the stuff out from around the frame, though I was also pretty lucky in that there wasn't much there to begin with.

It's also possible to hold the blade just so and get the buffer wheel most of the way into the crevasse between blade and frame, and I used that for final polish.