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Post Your Pictures - Sheffield Wedges

Most guys who shave with vintage straight razors go through a period of mild obsession with Sheffield razors. Big slabs of steel, pared down just enough to call the brute a razor, your typical Sheffield wedge plows through stubble as though it isn't there. Though many guys will go on to appreciate or prefer the finesse of more hollow ground razors, they'll return from time to time to these brutes for their buttery smoothness.

Let's see these relics from another age, your Sheffield wedges. A few of mine:


Mappin's Shilling Razor 6/8

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Unknown - From Victoria's Reign 5/8

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Wolstenholm The IXL Razor 8/8

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Wade & Butcher "The Ottoman Egyptian and Royal Windsor Razor," 7/8

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Here are a couple of the many I own.

10/8 Wostenholm

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13/16 Jonathan Crookes
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7/8 Tally Ho
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13/16 to 9/16 I Pearce
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13/16 Greaves Pair in Ivory
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15/16 W&B (no longer own this one)
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8/8 Wostenholm (no longer own this one either)
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15/16 W&B Barber's Use (gone also...)
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WH Hawcroft Gentlemen's Set in Ivory (my smoothest and best ones)
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9/8 Jackson Stacy & Smith
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Old Gratian
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Old Shepard & Gough
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I have a few more, but no pictures saved.
 

luvmysuper

My elbows leak
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6/8 Wostenholm & Sons Ebro, Perseverance Works
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7/8 Wade & Butcher (Faux Tortoise)
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8/8 Wade & Butcher For Barbers Use
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Sorry fellas, my compositional and photo skills are near nil.
 
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Legion

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OK. Here are some of mine (which I have shown elsewhere.)

The "Freddy Krueger" Wade and Butcher

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NOS Joseph Allen & Sons Non XLL

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The "museum restored" RH & Sons stubtail

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Maleham & Yeoman


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Those are some beautiful razors Joe!

Thanks Henry - you have quite a beautiful collection yourself!

Here is another I just finished up cleaning and honing last night. Bevel took me forever as the toe took a bit of work. Sometimes I wonder why I like old Sheffield wedges so much given all the bevel work a lot of them take, but after shaving with this one I was rewarded with a wonderful shave.


29/32 George Savage & Sons XX Razor circa 1841-1842

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Kentos

B&B's Dr. Doolittle.
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you guys have some unreal photog and restoration skills..i need to step up my game, but heres one to start and improve upon
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Luc

"To Wiki or Not To Wiki, That's The Question".
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Okay, it's about time that I get here. The sun is good today so here we go. John Heiffor, 3 Paradise Squares, Sheffield. Made of the Army B.
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