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Moving my shop again,huge PITA.

Restoring giesen & forsthoff adoration

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Moving my shop again,huge PITA.

I'm sorry to hear that. I hate anything paste a deep clean in my shop.

Thanks Engine46... I have been on the lookout for a Greaves and Sons and I got exactly what I was looking for. The blade is in good shape with next to no hone wear at all for its age. This one will definitely be a keeper for my collection Now its time to start culling the herd and putting a few back in circulation on Ebay. With any luck I can make enough profit to feed my un-ending RAD addiction

I love W Graves & Sons razors. Have you read up on their history on here? I think I must have around 5 Wm Greaves & Sons razors & right at 22 W Greaves & Sons razors. I actually bid on that razor but I had financial issues so I didn't follow through or we might have been sniping at each other! I actually got a W Greaves & Sons today in the mail that I won for under $35 which I think was a good deal. They are one of my favorite vintage cutlers.

Engine46,
I have 2 W. Greaves and sons at the moment, and I love them. I actually bought my first straight razor on May 1 of this year, a new Dovo, shortly thereafter I got a new Ralf Aust from SRD as well. Along with them I have gotten the following off of Ebay and restored them all to shaving condition, 2 Wade and Butchers, a Boker, a Torrey, 2 W.R. Case and Sons, a dubl duck goldenedge, a Robeson, a J. Henckels, 2 Joseph Rodgers $ Sons, and a Frederick Reynolds. I also have 7 various vintage razors in the shop that I got in "Lot" sales that I am still working on. I kind of got the "bug" when I started on here. I watched all of the video's on restoration from all of the guys on here, not to mention the honing and stropping video's. I set up a dedicated razor shop in my little barn, and got a full progression of stones. What is funny is that I had zero awareness of straight razor shaving until May, and since finding this place and getting involved, it is amazing the number of people I have bumped into that are into it. 2 of my clients are actually straight razor shavers, both of whom used to send their razors off to be re-honed and both of whom I now hone their razors for them. This is a great hobby and I am really glad I found this place, where I have gleaned sooooo much information from the members. It saved me a tremendous amount of time and learning curve. Thanks for the kind words, I will endeavor to catch up with you on the Greaves collection at some point...lol. Time to run out to my shop, I have 2 sets of original buffalo horn scales that I "Hornoxied" and sanded , soaking in neatsfoot oil. With any luck I will get them finished up and mount their blades on them today Its not just a hobby ... its an addiction ... LOL

Greaves are one of my favorites as well, I have two. One is out for a restore, and this one is always a pleasure to use:



And this one is one of my Holy Grail blades, been looking for this one for a long time, that was restored by Valery at the Gentleman's Den, my hopes of ever finding one, like most Greaves razors, are slim:

I love all my Greaves. Like i said in another post, they are about my favorite vintage cutler there is. If you haven't done so yet, read up on their history on here: A brief history of William Greaves & Sons
It is very interesting which made them about my favorite. BTW, nice razors you have there. Here are just a couple of my favorites. I have close to thirty just in Greaves. Many of them are very old. The one with the black horn scales is a Wm Greaves & Sons & the one in honey horn is a W Greaves & Sons. They are both shave ready.

I can see ya got good taste in your razors Phrank!

Originally Posted by engine46

I can see ya got good taste in your razors Phrank!

Here's the Greaves SRP member rbaker2778 was kind enough to allow me to acquire, it's off to be restored, and brought back to life...the pic does not do this blade justice, it is a truly wonderful piece of history, and really can't wait to see it when it's done.

Having shaved with one of his blades, a W&B Magnum Bonum, I will also tell you he puts a superb edge on a blade, he's humble, but he's got some serious honing skills IMO!