Thread: Wade and Butcher

Link to the auction I won.

Sorry my camera doesn't want to focus for some reason so I will post the auction link. This is the razor I got for honing practice. It just came in today and I have it soaking in a sterilizer. It has one nick in it and it looks as though from the look the nick came from the scales as they are extremely flexible. The steel looks a lot better IRL. I will do some minor buffing to help the blade. I was wondering if I should look into replacing the scales. They are replacements as far as I can tell as I can see where someone has lengthened the slot where the razor slides into it. There are no splits or cracks but the fact that just putting my fingers on them squeezes them shut is off setting. There is a chip in the scales that seems to correlate with the nick in the edge.

It looks like a 4/8.

Should I replace the scales? Where would be a good source?

Scales seem a little out of place ? My first thought was that it had been re-scaled. Not sure on source but Wade & Butcher feel like they should have Horn scales but probably a personal preference.

Oh your ebay link appears to be for a phone? Or something, did not quite work

Vintage Wade & Butcher straight razor Sheffield England | eBay

Here is a fixed version that took me to the auction.

Got a measure on it. Its a 5/8 blade.

Rescale for sure. Hone it through the corrosion at the bevel until you get to good solid steel before you mess with scales or other restoration efforts. You want to be sure the corrosion isn't so deep that the edge will fall apart before you do more resto to it.

I have been working on the blade and ordered some dovo scales as a replacement. It looks like the blade will be decent after a little more work.

I was wrong. The pitting was deep. And I learned a lesson about using dremels.

If I may, I sounds like you might have tried to teach yourself restoration before learning how to hone. This is why it's often a bad idea to buy an old eBay razor to learn to hone with - if you want to learn to hone, you shouldn't make matters more diffecult buy starting on a razor that needs more than just honed.

This isn't meant to kick you while you're down, btw, just to help you and others, since it's a common problem.

Originally Posted by DFriedl

If I may, I sounds like you might have tried to teach yourself restoration before learning how to hone. This is why it's often a bad idea to buy an old eBay razor to learn to hone with - if you want to learn to hone, you shouldn't make matters more diffecult buy starting on a razor that needs more than just honed.

This isn't meant to kick you while you're down, btw, just to help you and others, since it's a common problem.

No offense taken. Learned a lesson and I have a Dubl Duck that just needed honing now. Learning on that. No restoring needed.