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    Default So a Wade & Butcher and Filarmonica 14 got together and had a baby…

    1 and 1/8 inch Wade & Butcher FBU!

    Quintessential Sheffield Steel with a very symmetrical and outrageous grind that gets wickedly thin at the edge! It’s a crisp and clear singing blade that is an instant
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    With 'Barber's Use' on the tang it is a FBU wedge which was reground. The absence of the notch is typical as the thin grind would not support it.
    Nice Hot-rod razor, that!
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    With 'Barber's Use' on the tang it is a FBU wedge which was reground. The absence of the notch is typical as the thin grind would not support it.
    Nice Hot-rod razor, that!
    Thanks! I guess I collect reground Sheffields…here is a non-FBU with the barbers notch, but it it is only about 7/8, and not quite as thin…though it’s close enough to sing, and is also a miracle shaver!

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    Whoever re ground it did a very impressive job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grazor View Post
    Whoever re ground it did a very impressive job.
    That’s what I thought on both of these…sadly, I don’t know who reground either of them. If I did, I would have almost all of my Sheffield wedges or near wedges reground!

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    Impressive is indeed the right word here. A blade that large with such a thin grind...
    Very cool.
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    Seems the factories actually did some. Cutlers/experienced grinders were common back when.

    I suppose as the experience and learning curve was acquired, The old strop-worn wedge was a perfect blank canvas.
    I always tried to buy them.
    Some of what I still have..

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    Seems the factories actually did some. Cutlers/experienced grinders were common back when.

    I suppose as the experience and learning curve was acquired, The old strop-worn wedge was a perfect blank canvas.
    I always tried to buy them.
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    Those are really neat, and I bet they are beautiful shavers! What a collection!

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    Thanks, Matt! An example such as yours is exemplary.
    It could have been a more contemporary grinder as well. Looks sweet.
    Enjoy!

    They always shave great. Not much hone wear on some since regrind.
    A few I have were fails after regrind I think. Got too hot at the edge.
    Brought them past that and they worked well.

    The 3rd one down is a Skinner from 1815-1819

    Talk about comparing to a Filarmonica. That one smokes mine. Or does it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    Thanks, Matt! An example such as yours is exemplary. Enjoy!
    They always shave great. Not much hone wear on some since regrind.
    A few I have were fails after regrind I think. Got too hot at the edge.
    Brought them past that and they worked well.

    The 3rd one down is a Skinner from 1815-1819

    Talk about comparing to a Filarmonica. That one smokes mine. Or does it?

    What is the second one up from the bottom with metal scales? That one looks pretty
    Interesting!

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