Thread: Antique Market find.

Hey guys,

I was strolling around the market in Toronto this morning and picked this up. It's a Wade and Butcher, and I think it's either a wedge or a near wedge. The pictures are not great, but I've put up a few for you.

Some of the pitting is a little deep, but I think I can get most of it with hand sanding.

A question though....there a number of chips on the edge, no cracks, and they are roughly 1/64th to 1/32nd in depth from the edge. Once this is sanded and put back together, what's the best way to hone these out? Circles? And secondly, since this is a wedge or near it, will honing these out affect the type of bevel that is able to be set? I have no idea if that makes sense. I've never restored a wedge before, nor honed one, but I've got to start somewhere. I guess what I'm asking, is by taking the nicks out of the edge, will the end result be too thick of an edge to properly set a bevel for shaving?

Thanks for the help. Any and all is appreciated. BTW, I paid 7 dollars canadian for it, so either way, it's going to be an excellent experience for me.

Maxi

Wow!..

Good Deal!

PcDad

Nice find. Which store did you walk in to?

Basil,

I went down to the St. Lawrence market this morning. Every Saturday, they have a food market at the North location, with local produce and homemade sausage etc. Then on sunday from sun-up to five pm the antique dealers come in.

It's touch and go. Sometimes there's nothing, but once and a while there is a razor there that is calling me. I've never paid more than $20 for anything there. I got my first restoration project there last january, a Torrey 258 quarter-hollow, some other Wade and Butchers, and a few Bokers.

Maxi

Maxi;

That one appears to be a quarter hollow straight.

There are no ill effects from honing it back to a usable edge except that it will show a long bevel. If you can live with that, no problem.

- Ignatz

Yep as above, will hone up. Just use tape or you will wear the spine down to much. ITs gonna take for ever so I hope you have a low grit stone.
In case you dont know this one; you can put a couple, 2 or 3..., layers of tape on the spine to speed up getting the chips out. Then come down to one layer for proper honeing. You can then do the marker trick, or use a loupe to see when you are honeing right to the edge with one layer of tape (or just the spine of corse).

Being a wedge type you should be OK but I usually take the chips out before I start restoring the blade finish. I had a hollow grind crack at a chip during a restore and now remove all chips first. Hone like a knife on a course hone (1k or 600), bread knife on the same hone or use tape. In the end you will have to remove the same amount of metal.