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    Default FINALLY Lucky at an Antique Store!

    I had the pleasure this week of finding an antique Belgian combination stone plus a Wade & Butcher humpback 13/16 hollow ground razor, along with other nice vintage razors, in a Scottsdale AZ antique shop. I guess everyone finally has their day! I look forward to lots of sanding, lapping, and oiling of dry horn scales. Will post "After" pictures. Here are the "Before" photos.
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    I've given up on our antique stores.

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    The thing is, they get new items in all the time. I got there right after they moved a whole case of razors, mugs and hones from "the back". How I would like to explore "the back". There are about 60 razors left, most junk but a few salvageable. I had to laugh when the seller wanted $75-150 each for Selective brand razors in old Sheffield/Solingen boxes! The Coti cost me $32. The store is at Scottsdale ave and Oak, near the central post office. Check them out!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Croaker View Post
    The thing is, they get new items in all the time. I got there right after they moved a whole case of razors, mugs and hones from "the back". How I would like to explore "the back". There are about 60 razors left, most junk but a few salvageable. I had to laugh when the seller wanted $75-150 each for Selective brand razors in old Sheffield/Solingen boxes! The Coti cost me $32. The store is at Scottsdale ave and Oak, near the central post office. Check them out!
    I was there last month!

    Don't tell me you paid the asking price.... Was it the lady selling zeepks? Or the one next door? The one next door actually had one razor for a decent price, but it wasn't particularly nice and I still have a backlog so I passed.

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    It was the ZeepK lady, I guess, but there were dozens of old razors of all descriptions besides the Pakikrappy ones. I got a couple of hones, including the coticule. BTW, I cleaned it up tonight and honed a razor nicely on it already! Nothing like a DMT. You wouldn't know it was the same stone, now. There are strops, too. Apparently they just got put on display this week. I thought $32 for a combination stone of that size was a great deal. No cracks at all and it lapped absolutely flat on both sides. The W&B was $20.

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    Interesting. I guess she finally wised up. Was she still asking for $25 for the zeepks? Or was it $35?

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    that is a very cool blade,after yo clean it up I'd like to see again that shoulder to tang transition, it looks interesting. congrats!

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    Congrats on your find!! Local shops can have much better prices than EBay, you just have to visit often as you found the stock changes constantly. Looking forward to the after pics.
    “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leighton View Post
    Interesting. I guess she finally wised up. Was she still asking for $25 for the zeepks? Or was it $35?
    The lady wanted up to $150 for a Zeepk!! With rust!! Probably thought the rock was worthless...ha ha ha!!

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    There is a place in Cold spring NY that has literally 25-20 Wade and Butcher Wedges of all types in a display case for 30$ a piece. I didn't even see rust on any of them. I got a Wilkinson there for 3$, no rust, and honed it to an awesome razor.

    I love these shops!

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