Thread: New Toy Photos

After rubbing with different grit sand paper for hours and hours and hours then making the scales and attaching them this is what I ended up with. I've got 5 or 6 now to hone and waiting on a particularly bad day to do so. both sides of the blade turned out about the same. just hope it shaves good if not on auction block it goes. I'm looking at a 5/8 Fredrick Reynolds with a B notch. it looks like it'll clean up ok. may try to get.

I was so close to buying that one. Great looking razor. Glad you got it instead. Probably would have sat here a couple months before I got around to it. I got too big of a backlog already!

It was really a lot of fun . I sit and mostly listen to tv while working on it. The one i'm looking at right now will need about as much work but it will fill a void . I have a 15/6 that use to be a 8/8 I guess and a 7/8 then a 6/8 Fredrick Reynolds and if I do get the 5/8 I'll put them behind glass and on the wall. I think they look pretty cool.

came out great mate
I find them old wedges take a lot longer to hone up especially with a smile
but if you get it right, you will forget the sanding in the first smooth shave

I think those old wedge shave great. Pretty much if it doesn't shave well it is more likely the hand than the blade, but you know what they say YMMV!

Originally Posted by Substance

came out great mate
I find them old wedges take a lot longer to hone up especially with a smile
but if you get it right, you will forget the sanding in the first smooth shave

A while back I acquired a Frederick Reynolds 'The Prince's Own' wedge and spent hours trying to get set the bevel, no luck, got disgusted and sold it to a collector friend. After watching Glen's (gssixgun) video 'honing a smiling wedge' and some practice on a couple other wedges I managed to get the FR back on a trade. I spent about an hour total from setting bevel to polishing the edge and it is now one of my best shavers. Personally, I love big wedges.

Wedges are a totally different animal when it comes to honing. It takes time, patience and lots of experimenting to gain plenty of knowledge to hone wedges but once you get them shave ready the results are Oh so satisfying.

Well I couldn't wait any longer. I sat down last night with this one and another one just like it I got a few weeks ago and a joseph Allen 6/8 b notch I got last month. well I started at 5 PM and at 10.30 Pm I had them where they would pass the hanging hair test. This morning I showered (It is Saturday you know) and tried all Three out. The on I got a few weeks ago did great. the one I just got didn't hurt or pull real bad but it did tug a little and the Joseph Allen did great. I don't know exactly why the Fred Reynolds tugs or it just might be my imagination. it doesn't shave as well as the first one I got. I think I'll put them in the hands of a friend this spring and let him look at them. It's always good to get a second opinion.

Those Frederick Reynolds for the most part can be a bear to hone. I've had several and only one honed up normal, the rest were a pain. What I really like about them is once you get that smooth shaving edge on them it stays there for a long time. FR's are some of my favorites.