Thread: Pair of W&B in buffalo

It has been a while since I posted a restoration although I certainly stay busy working on them. So I thought I would show these two off. One is a Wade and Butcher 6/8 French point. The owner wanted a restoration on this one. It was stained and pitted so I gave it a run over the greesless compounds to clean it up a bit. Being hollow ground you can only do so much with metal removal. Then it got a progression on the buffing compounds to polish it up. The second is a celebrated that he simply wanted rescaled.


The French point got a traditional shaped set of scales while the Celebrated got a more traditional square toe with a pointed heel. The buffalo horn has some nice silver in it. Both razors are pinned with 1/16 brass rod with brass over stainless washers. The blades have brass thrust bearings and are both wedges are desert ironwood burl. Still have to hone them but they should be very nice shaving razors.

SWEET!!!! Beautiful work!

very nice, what did you use for the wedge?

Beautiful work. I'm a big fan of buffalo horn.

Beautiful & a great job on saving the etching.

Outstanding job! Love the polish on the scales.

Originally Posted by TwistedOak

very nice, what did you use for the wedge?

Typo in the original post. The wedges are desert ironwood burl. Both blades have some small chips in the edges so it will take some time on a 320 diamond plate to work the bevel down to where it is ready to hone. Eagles are on Monday night football so I can watch the game and hone them.

The razors look great! Nice work on all counts.