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Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:50 pm
by brothers
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Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:29 am
by drmoss_ca
Show us the 'after' photos!

Chris

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:37 am
by brothers
Yeah, very funny Chris! You should see the "before" pictures. LOL :D

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:36 pm
by TheMonk
They look good, Gary!

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:03 pm
by brothers
Thanks David. Glen in Idaho (known as Gssixgun here on SMF and on SRD) restored the yellow wedge and polished and made new scales for the other one. These old razors along with a few others will be given to my son and grandson one of these days.

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:04 pm
by brothers
drmoss_ca wrote:Show us the 'after' photos!

Chris
Here's one of them:
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Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:11 pm
by EL Alamein
Nice!

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:18 pm
by brothers
Nothing's as smooth as a wedge.

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:50 am
by brothers
drmoss_ca wrote:Show us the 'after' photos!

Chris
Here's the other one:

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Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:21 pm
by Squire
I like that one.

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:57 pm
by brothers
That etching is deep and crisp. There's very little hone wear and no rust. makes me wonder if it wasn't used much if any. This doesn't explain why the old handle was broken and tied with string, many decades ago.

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 7:57 pm
by brothers
Tomorrow's going to be the 6th shave with the old W&B wedge, post restoration. It feels pretty good coming off the strops, for what that's worth.

Re: Wade & Butcher restorations

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:45 am
by brothers
Today I used the Wedge. It didn't happen yesterday as planned. The result was very good. It seems that the edge is holding up well, considering I always have a full 3 pass shave with my straight razors, as well as the others.