I bought a 5/8 Wade and Butcher off eBay the other week, that I'm starting to clean up.

I've taken the scales off, which went fairly well...yeah they did crack a little bit but I glued the crack and hopefully they'll be ok to go back on.

I do have a couple of questions, though. First, here's a picture of the inside of one of the scales:

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What would you suggest doing with those flappy bits? I could try gluing them, sanding them, or just leaving them, I suppose.

Secondly, what do you guys make of this razor?

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In the first pic, right where I'm holding it, there's a kind of darker, raised knob of metal on the spine. Also, if you look at the stamp, it's very faint and a lot of the 'Wade & Butcher' is cut off fat the top of the shank. I'm also thinking that there's some strange wear along the spine, though not from honing. I realise that it's probably quite hard to tell anything from those pictures, but does it look like someone has done work on this razor, previously, or do you reckon it was like this since new?

I mean, I'm not worried about it, but it seems odd compared to the condition of all my other vintage blades.