Thread: Habeeb & Joseph, Sheffield

Anybody know anything about this manufacturer? I used the search and only come up with two mentions and no real info.

Anyway, got this on ebay cheap. I grabbed it because I liked the shoulderless look of it. That and it had no rust at all. Also, no other bidders.

Scales are bone, badly discolored, but not as bad as an hour ago as I've been working on them with simple green and pressurized steam. Outside of the chip and the funky color, they're solid and it closest centered, if a bit loose.


It's obviously been chipped at the point and smoothed out at some point, I'd guess with a stone, because the shape isn't smooth and uniform like it will be after I change the grind here in a minute.

I do think the point is interesting in the way that it's been ground though. I'm going to keep that shape and just refine it a bit.

Habeeb & Joseph 1900-1920 sheffield.
Nevertheless a nice shoulderless razor enjoy!

Ok, refined and smoothed the chip area of the point to make it more uniform and less obviously chipped.

Should be a bit easier to hone it toward a slight smile now too.

Polished the scales as well. I'll probably keep them for the time being and then send it to someone for new bone scales after a while.

Not really soon though. I've got a nice Geneva pyramid out to Glen being rescsaled right now already.

Nice fix, well done, definately looks better.

Not much of a change, but more pleasant to look at overall. It just bugged me a little as it was.

Easy to do with the tools I have available here at work.

Looks good. How does it shave?

Originally Posted by Firefighter2

Looks good. How does it shave?

Don't know yet. I'll probably skip the polishing it like new until such time as I unpin it to rescale it. I'll hone it up this weekend and let you know.

When manah comes on, he will know. The one on GOOGLE was in his shop.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

When manah comes on, he will know. The one on GOOGLE was in his shop.

Yeah I've seen that one. It's rather nicer than mine. :-)

As you've seen, I had Habeeb & Joseph "English Steel" razor.
But unfortunately, I couldn't find a lot about the company.