Thread: Almost heaven

Found this fat fellow in the wild at the monthly flea market this past weekend. It has some challenges in that the pitting is pretty substantial, but fortunately, is up near the spine. It will still be difficult to remove and not affect the profiles. Also, one part extends into the stamping a bit...drat. The width is 1 1/32" so the removal of the slight chip at the toe will bring it to 1". The scales are in very good shape except for the gouge where the missing collar is. It's going to rain tomorrow, so it's a nice rainy day project. Need some big collars.

Nice. That is a sought after blade and should clean up very nicely for you. Congrats.

That is a beauty. I’m sure you will get it as good as can be expected. You could leave most of the pitting and still have a nice user grade razor.

Those scales look to be in pretty good condition, that’s not always the case. Nice find. Lots of character, and the hone wear looks minimal at most.

Just keep in mind that a bit of pitting is fine. Its old so if it shows some scars is just fine.

Great score there!!!

I love my W&B FBU's

Deal with the one or two tiny pits at the toe on the bevel. My guess is they will hone right out. The others are just a badge of honor. Give it a good cleaning, deal with the scales and your home free. It's a great razor and a worthy project that will give you years of pleasure.

Congratulations and enjoy!

Pete<:-}

Since it would be a shaver, and probably far from "perfect", I decided that I would give it a whirl and see what was up before I un-pinned it. One thing led to another, and I did something I hate to do, I used a dremel hard felt loaded with greaseless 80. I took the Dremel whimples out with a 4" sisal loaded with 80, back and forth very often from one to the other. I knew that I would most likely soften the tang line, but so be it. I then took it up through 120, 180, 240, 400, 600 on 8" wheels and finished with green grease stick compound. I noticed that it would now shave arm hair with ease. Just for giggles, I stropped it about 80 times on the CRO2 side and about 40 on leather side. I had a 3 day growth , so I just tried a spot dry. Dead smooth. I returned to the CRO2 for a few strokes, stropped it, lathered up and durned if this un-honed blade, with the little nick still in the toe, didn't shave me as smooth as glass. It did better than my regular W&B. I'm floored, absolutely floored. My wife felt my face and she can't believe it either.

Gorgeous blade and a great shaver. Guess the W&B folks knew that they were doing.

Oh, and so do you ;=)