Thread: Two Joseph Smith & Sons, Rescaled by Tarkus

Got these two beauties as blades only from a forum member a couple of years back. After they sat on the shelf for a year or more, I saw a thread Sharptonn posted where Tarkus had done a great job on a horn rescale. I reached out to Darl (Tarkus) and sent them his way.

I can't praise the work enough. Now Darl doesn't like them because, the blades being punched differently for the pivot pin, and one being a bit longer overall than the other, they don't match perfectly. I think they are great.

One of them I honed up no problem on an 11" coticule and got a killer shave. The other had a chip in the center of the bevel so it was relegated to the shelf for a couple of months, until I got the ambition to tackle it.

I started out on a DMT 600 and it just wasn't cutting it ..... pun intended ..... so I gave the Atoma 1200 a go and it was much better. Still needed quite a bit to get the chip to being just visible with a 30x eye loupe, and I went to the 1k chosera. Went on with the 1k, 3k, 5k, 10k choseras and then the suehiro 20k to finish. I'll shave with it tomorrow, but judging from the HHT it is going to be a good one.

Here are the original blades, and the finished rescaled blades. (I told Darl to leave them as is, other than the rescale) Took them 150 years to get that patina, may as well leave well enough alone.

Now there is a few of my favorite things in a single post. I love old Sheffield razors, I love matched or even close to matched pairs, I love the streaked black and white feathered horn. He does nice work, they look great.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Now there is a few of my favorite things in a single post. I love old Sheffield razors, I love matched or even close to matched pairs, I love the streaked black and white feathered horn. He does nice work, they look great.

1+! Beautiful pair. That streaked horn is pure class. Old Darry did you proud, Jimmy!

Those are truly awful, but I would be willing to take them off your hands for the price of postage. Very nice.

Originally Posted by JSmith1983

Those are truly awful, but I would be willing to take them off your hands for the price of postage. Very nice.

Yes, someone named J Smith WOULD say that!

Your too kind Jimmy.
You've left out the part where Dumb-ass me spit the corner off the first set of scales and had to start a whole new panel.
I wanted to throw myself under the nearest bus wheel after that.

Oh! I woulda soooo superglued that back on!

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Sweet choice of collars, really compliments the jaunty look of the streaked horn. Hey I hope the word doesn't get around that Tarkus is a perfectionist and does above professional work with horn, lead wedges, pinning, turning collars.......and probably a lot more.

Originally Posted by WW243

Sweet choice of collars, really compliments the jaunty look of the streaked horn. Hey I hope the word doesn't get around that Tarkus is a perfectionist and does above professional work with horn, lead wedges, pinning, turning collars.......and probably a lot more.

+ 1 ............. I won't tell if you don't .........