Thread: Purchased 7 St8 Razors! :) Info please

I went out to an antique mall over in st. charles missouri today and found a few str8 razors!

From top to bottom markings on tang:
1: Extra Hollow Ground Sheffield $15
2: W.H. Horley & Sons Clover Brand Germany $15
3: The Torrey Razor Co Worches*** ass* $15
4: H & J.W. King 22 Beekman Street New York $7.50
5: KOH-I-NOOR $7.50
6: Wade & Butcher $60.00
7: 4451 Germany $60.00

How was the purchase? Did I do ok?
I feel i have a few here i can practice honing and the others for collection or use.

Please post your comments and thoughts

Not bad. I am sure you wouldn't have bought them all had you believed it wasn't a good enough deal. We don't do valuations here but I think you know you most would hardly describe the purchases as daylight robbery. On second thoughts I'm not confident that I would have paid what you did for the Wade and Butcher. Perhaps, perhaps not.

I hope you know what to do with them. If not you at the correct place. Good luck

im looking around for stones now.
4000/8000 by norton i hear is a good place to start then to the strop? is this about right?

Not for ebay/antique store specials. For something like that, you'll need 1k, 4k, 8k.

Hi Clintontull,
On the face of it it looks like a good haul!!-without a closer look it's hard to tell.It really depends on the condition of the blades & scales.They look in reasonable condition to me from the photo.
Are you going to polish the blades?
If you are going to hone them yourself you will need a 1000k grit stone to cut a new bevel-the norton stones will come in handy for polishing and maintaining the edge of the razors though.
Good luck and hope you get them up and running.Let us know how you get on.
kind regards
Noggs

Originally Posted by clintontull

im looking around for stones now.
4000/8000 by norton i hear is a good place to start then to the strop? is this about right?

Not a bad place to start, but not the correct place for you to start if those are the only razors you have and not shave ready, neither if you do not yet know how to hone.

Send one out to be honed by a honemeister among the classifieds. Lynn is your best bet, but any here are more than good enough. Buy a good quality strop in the mean time. Experience a professionally honed blade and then give honing a go on another to have a benchmark.

Do things properly the first time and save yourself time, money and aggravation.

Hope this helps

For the few that I have which one is of best quality to actually have one of the honemeisters work on?

Great score

I sugest sending at least 2 if you don't have any shave ready now.

My eyes are lieing to me as I've been up for 2 days... forgot to go to sleep last night...

Im looking at sending in one of the three.
Torrey
Wade & Butcher or the WH MOrley Clover Brand.

Ummm... That W&B is toxic... ya... Umm you need to send it to me for proper disposal