Thread: 10/8+ GB Anchor & Cross

Originally Posted by kalerolf

Wow thats a real axe

Originally Posted by engine46

That is a very nice score. You could enter the lumberjack competition with that one! I always wanted one. Maybe one of these days..................

Originally Posted by Gipson

I also thought about it.

Yep, I agreed!

Originally Posted by MikeT

Wow! Where did you get that???
Is there some secret place these swords are sold? Some dark alley in Sheffield that leads to a 6 inch thick oak door that opens to an underground men's straight razor club where French and German virgin NOS straight razors are sacrificed to a full moon and only the elite of the elite get to bid on these behemoth blades???!!!
Do tell.

LMAO !!!

Sometimes I think what you said is sooooo true!

Spectacular, congrats!

That's an awesome blade! Congrats.

Originally Posted by MikeT

Wow! Where did you get that???
Is there some secret place these swords are sold? Some dark alley in Sheffield that leads to a 6 inch thick oak door that opens to an underground men's straight razor club where French and German virgin NOS straight razors are sacrificed to a full moon and only the elite of the elite get to bid on these behemoth blades???!!!
Do tell.

That's funny.
No, unfortunately these clubs don't exist. (I think).

As said, we have a local Dutch auction site and then there's a Belgian 2nd hand auction site.
With a frequency of one GB every 6 to 10 months, they're rare in our country too.
And again, even if they do show up, they're often in bad shape or too small.
This was a lucky one by any means.

I'll try to stay away from shaving with this blade at full moon now though...

As promised, some pictures after the clean-up.
I didn't take it very far.
I think grit 240 sandpaper was about as course as it got.
A blade of this age doesn't need to be squeaky clean and spotless in my opinion.
It's okay to show its age and that's why I didn't want to sand all the way through until the pitting would be gone.
Micro Mesh cloths to finish and also not over-polish the scales.
Pictures are from before I put it to the hones.

Badass.....

Wow...cleaned up pretty nice.
Hone that baby and shave with it!

I admire your decision to let its character and age remain. Razors like this deserve to show the years they have acquired!
Hone it up and enjoy!

Like how you have brought it back and kept the character.

We now want to know how it honed and shaved...

That and if you where able to pile all the lather from one pass on that shovel sized blade?

And thank you for sharing...