Thread: My Newbie W&B Ghetto Restore - PICS!

Here is my first restore. Admittedly I have never done this before. Nor was I ever planning to do one. But this weekend I stumbled upon a few Sheffield straights [2] from Wade & Butcher & [1] from Joseph Rodgers & Sons.


1. Joseph & Rodgers 2. Wage & Butcher Spike 3. W&B Barbers Notch

They were pretty beat up but for $10 a pop I figured I could use them for something. In the car ride back home I was really growing fond of the two old W&B's specially the barbers notch. The more I thought about it the more I wanted to clean them up. Im on a tight budget at the moment so I didn't want to have to pay a lot to get them in nice working order. My thought was to de pin them and then clean the steel up as best I could.

So, I de pinned the two W&B's and started to go to town with the limited supplies I had. I started whacking away at it with 100 grit. And I got the barbers notch to this point...





That took about a little less than an hour to do. Then sadly, I made a BIG STUPID mistake... I broke the tip off the Barbers Notch!



Which really ****ed me off... I felt horrible. So, this morning I decided (with the help of some peeps in chat) to grind down the Barbers notch... I figured WTF? I already buggered it up...