Thread: My Best Yet

Here is my newest restoration. This is a Marshes and Shepherd Pond Works 13/16 square point. I have looked online and at best I can find that production was stopped around 1850. So this is a least 158 years old. I am going to say this is a rare brand as I have not found many others, especially in this condition. I have the bone scales that were on it, and I will give them to the buyer. My camera does a good job at picking up flaws on the blade but the scratches are much smaller than 2000 grit paper can remove. It looks like a mirror if you take good photos and you can read lettering easily if you hold it over text. The engraved vines and designs in the spine are very meticulous and at the expense of a smooth finish, I preserved them because they were so neat. The scales were designed and hand made by me, but I saw a similar design in the classifieds once, so it is not actually my design. Wedges and pins are all brass(sorry I have no other materials and can't afford any others right now). They are bacote with a red oak stain with 2 coats of polyurethane. This razor has been polished for about 6 hours with a dremel, honed to 12K and is awaiting only to be stropped. I will shave test it tomorrow morning. This is the best one and rarest one I have made so far so I hope everyone likes it.