Junk store buys

Traveling for the weekend and stopped by a small antique store in the area, one display bin had probably 50 old straights piled together. Looked over each one, much to my wife's dismay and picked two W&B wedges, a Torrey, aHenry Sears Blue Steel and a book copyrighted 1970 for razor collectors. The book lists tang stamps, marks and prices. Dubl Ducks were fetching $8 to $10 each in '70.

i really like the pre1890 Wade but someone dorked up the spine and edge trying to hone, can it be squared away?

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Pix of the Torey and 2nd Wade. I don't know too much about the Sears Blue Steel, it is marked PRUSSIA and looks to be in decent shape, will get a pic up when I get home today. The guy had mostly American made razors and one nice Dorko but he wanted a Franklin for the Dorko,thought it was a bit too much.

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That is straight up spine wear. The only thing you can do about that is send it out to have it reground. I think there are several guys that do regrind work. The other option is to tape it up and hone it, that will thin the bevel a bit. It is mostly even and likely will shave just fine.

Thanks RezDog for the input. I really like those W&B's, might have to check and see what could be done to spruce them up, definitely beyond my current abilities. Here are pix of the Sears Blue Steel.

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There's no need to have it reground or use tape. In the olden days they didn't either.

My guess would be in the old days, razors like the first W&B in the picture set would be tossed in the junk drawer once they got that level of hone wear and a new one was bought. We are basically resurrecting their junk, hence the tape.

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Originally Posted by Kees

There's no need to have it reground or use tape. In the olden days they didn't either.

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They would be reground eventually as J.J. Perret describes in 1790 but there is no reason why you wouldn't be able to reset a bevel with much honewear. It may take a bit longer but you'll get there. Razors with much more honewear than the razor in the OP are listed on ebay all the time.

I recently saved a blade with that much wear...but it took lots of work and several layers of tape. It shaves just fine now, but stropping it is a pain:)

You shouldn't need tape to strop, just use a bit more slack on the strop to make up for the tape

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Originally Posted by Ernie1980

I recently saved a blade with that much wear...but it took lots of work and several layers of tape. It shaves just fine now, but stropping it is a pain:)

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