Thread: First restoration on a vintage straight

Beautiful razor. The scales willlook amazing!

Originally Posted by Toroblanco

I found a Wade & Butcher straight that was a good candidate for restoration I was comfortable with. It needed about .200" removed from the toe and new scales. The chipped toe was done with a dremel and came out nice and without a lot of work. The scales were done in camel bone from Ajkenne and are comming out very nice. I decided I was going to use brass so I need to order some brass pins from Aj and the wedge I have a piece I am working on. Looking good so far, wish me luck please!Attachment 302886Attachment 302887

though I never try to or yet needed to restore the SR! I am excited to see how would do it, can you able to share? anyhow Best of luck for the restoration!

I have a new restoration in the future I will try and document each step a little better.

That's looking really nice!. I'd vote for the red on the wedge just to have it stand out a bit, but brass would have a timeless classy look. I don't think you'll go wrong with either choice.

Got a piece of brass to make some wedges and it got me thinking I could make some scales too. That is a whole other project. Lol!
Still want a piece of red plastic of somekind to make my final choice.
Dont know how the stones got on there but hey.

Bass fishing has sucked all my free time these last few months. It has been a blast but in the back of my mind I kept on thinking about this wedge. I wanted a nice swirled red but could not find something I liked so I went back to brass! All that time!Lol!
I am still going to bevel the edges of the scales but wedge is finally complete.
.064 to .025 in thickness.

Picked up some of them micro fastners from our friend in Romania. Man I love those things. Make life a little easier.

Originally Posted by Toroblanco

Bass fishing has sucked all my free time these last few months. It has been a blast but in the back of my mind I kept on thinking about this wedge. I wanted a nice swirled red but could not find something I liked so I went back to brass! All that time!Lol!
I am still going to bevel the edges of the scales but wedge is finally complete.
.064 to .025 in thickness.

I may have what your looking for, I'll post pics once home.

U fish bass tournament's.?! I used to.

How's something like this strike u.

PM your addy, it'll be out tomorrow.

Originally Posted by outback

I may have what your looking for, I'll post pics once home.

U fish bass tournament's.?! I used to.

Land O' Goshen you are a bass angling son of a gun Mike! To catch that many fish like that I'd have to use dynamite.