Thread: Curley Sheffield Straight Razor-Complete

Here is my Curley Sheffield straight razor complete with the tail on it. As some of you know, I showed it recently w/o the tail & I didn't know much about them until I was informed by JimmyWetshaver that the tail section was missing along with the lower jimps. After that I thought I looked on the bay but didn't see one unless one was put on after I looked but gooser wrote me with a link to one so I waited for it & won it. The scales were broken on it so when I got it, I took it apart & used parts from one to complete the other one. The other one I won was rough but I sanded the spine assembly & the tail & jimp pieces in progressions from 240, 280, 320, 360, 400, 500, 600, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000, 2500 on up to 3000 grit, then polished them on my buffing wheel in the garage.
Here it is before:




Here are the after pics:


Of course I used the original blade since it was cleaner but I plan to clean the other blade up & I'll have an extra blade for this razor. The lower jimps lock the guard in place. The patent dates on this spine assembly were already partially worn off, but it said the same thing as the blade, Sept. 21- 86.
I have said this before & I'll more than likely say it again. I not one of those people who thinks they know it all, I learn something new everyday!

Special thanks to JimmyWetshaver, gooser & Slamthunderide for their previous comments in my other thread on this Sheffield version of the Curley straight razor. There is also a USA version of it.