Thread: Wade and Butcher Featheredge

OK so some of the guys who were there late in Ohio wanted me to polish something so I pulled out this odd old W&B Featheredge lancet type blade that was like most 150 year old W&B's. It was heavily tarnished and rather pitted. I went at it on 1 side with the stainless polishing compound but eventually we ran out of time and people wanted to go home. Well I finished polishing the blade today. It ended up with only a few puts I didn't take out on the back since they were deep to start with. The rest of it is now mirror. I am also debating putting custom scales on it but the horn ones are great so who knows. I will hone it up and see how it shaves since I haven't tried one like this before. I thought you might appreciate seeing the final result especially if you saw me start it in Ohio.

Damn fine work Chris! That's an amazing difference. Now to figure out how to get results half that good on some of my projects...

nice work,,,now put new scales on it and sell it to me,,,LOL

WoW! What a razor Chris!

Geez!
What a difference a lot of work makes.
That is one terrific polish job.

So what was your polish procedure on this?

Nice Chris. What a polish!

Originally Posted by The Topher

OK so some of the guys who were there late in Ohio wanted me to polish something so I pulled out this odd old W&B Featheredge lancet type blade that was like most 150 year old W&B's. It was heavily tarnished and rather pitted. I went at it on 1 side with the stainless polishing compound but eventually we ran out of time and people wanted to go home. Well I finished polishing the blade today. It ended up with only a few puts I didn't take out on the back since they were deep to start with. The rest of it is now mirror. I am also debating putting custom scales on it but the horn ones are great so who knows. I will hone it up and see how it shaves since I haven't tried one like this before. I thought you might appreciate seeing the final result especially if you saw me start it in Ohio.

If I'd known how nice it was going to turn out we could have played poker til 3 or 4 to give you more time . Not really, I was in enough trouble when I got home.

Great work.

Fantastic work!

I wonder if that blade design was a fashion at the time (like the Lancet seems to have been), or if it was a wedge reground to have the lancet look.....

What "Stainless Polish" is it you use?

C utz

Outstanding work, Chris. Looks really good. Question for you. I recently picked up a few razors at an antique store and one of them has this style of blade (thick spine then thin blade.) It is called a lancet as well?
Aaron

Chris......... you gotta slap on some knarly scales. That IS a beautiful razor!