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    Quote Originally Posted by Montgomery View Post
    Question is, can celluloid scales shrink like that? If they are the original scales, I may see if I can make a bit of space and re-fit them.
    Yes, they have been known to shrink over time. Had a set that did that and just carefully sand a bit off the wedge without taking the scales apart.

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    Ive seen it a few times.
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    I've got a CMON in the to do pile that has the shrunken scale syndrome. Tip hits the top of the wedge.
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    I have a Wade and Butcher Special square point that catches on the wedge. I'm quite sure the scales are original
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    I’m not sure where it is but Sharpton had a brief tutorial on how he trims the wedge with the razor assembled. It involves some small files and a modified piece of a hacksaw blade. It works fairly well, as long as the sides of the blade are removed so it only cuts down and doesn’t do any side damage.
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    Oh yeah! The 'Holy Hacksaw Blade'.
    Side cutters ground-off and teeth pointing backwards. A pull-saw. A little here, little there!
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    Quote Originally Posted by RezDog View Post
    I’m not sure where it is but Sharpton had a brief tutorial on how he trims the wedge with the razor assembled. It involves some small files and a modified piece of a hacksaw blade. It works fairly well, as long as the sides of the blade are removed so it only cuts down and doesn’t do any side damage.
    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    Oh yeah! The 'Holy Hacksaw Blade'.
    Side cutters ground-off and teeth pointing backwards. A pull-saw. A little here, little there!
    I did this once with needle files, it worked fine. Looking back, I think that particular blade was intended to bear on the wedge (https://sharprazorpalace.com/razors/...nal-right.html).

    The razor that this query was about is already in new scales (https://sharprazorpalace.com/worksho...king-1713.html #17126), but I may put it back in its old scales now I know they are original.

    Many thanks!

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    You know what this does?
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    This really sucks wet dog fur is what this does. I'm going to have to really round the heel off to get rid of these chips.

    On the up side though look at the cool scales and I even got the original box.
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    I'm trying to tell though from the trees what period this comes from. I have another one also which I've been trying to do this with and it looks like all of the trees and it looks like none of them. I'm thinking this one looks like the 1924 to 1935 era.

    Edit: Oh yeah, the engraving on the blade is hard to see in that picture. It says good as gold with some filigrees.Name:  IMG_20190925_221320.jpg
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    Perhaps this will be of some help dating the razor--

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    OR perhaps this link to an older thread here at SRP--

    https://sharprazorpalace.com/razors/...ree-brand.html
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    Thanks Roy. That's more detailed than the one that I saw. And I don't think that that specifically mentioned Tang markings. It might have been box markings but looking at that further it seems as though it may be the 1900 to 1924 marking instead.Name:  tree_history.jpg
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    On the box it is marked Trade - tree - Mark which is actually more like the earlier Mark where it says tree brand but the words are on either side of the tree and not under it so possibly earlier in that 1900 to 1924 range? It looks like maybe the 1924 to 1935 markings they dropped the words with the tree all together. I don't know. Those tree marks are very hard to go by in my estimation.
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