Nice catch, @exocet - you don't see many of those!
These two unusual profile Bengalls, complete with a pretty smart case, popped up on FB Marketplace the other day for not a huge amount of $.
Just received them and I’m rather pleased - they’re in very good condition and shouldn’t take long to get to working order. The second, horn-scaled, one is particularly nice I think.
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I was thinking that about an 8" Washita for $2.45.Not Fair! I want! lol!
Very interesting & unique! Very NICE! Congrats on that find.These two unusual profile Bengalls, complete with a pretty smart case, popped up on FB Marketplace the other day for not a huge amount of $.
Just received them and I’m rather pleased - they’re in very good condition and shouldn’t take long to get to working order. The second, horn-scaled, one is particularly nice I think.
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Bought this a few weeks ago but got it today.
These are the seller pics as they're better than anything I can take.
I don't know what make it is, all I know is it's French so if anyone can decipher what's left on the tang (????lle .B) and a picture of a fish it'd be helpful.
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That's interesting Steve. Fish looks different but it's the only thing I have to go on so I'll look into it.
Very interesting & unique! Very NICE! Congrats on that find.
Not Fair! I want! lol!
Haha! They're quite cool aren't they. I don't usually bother making old razors look completely shiny and pristine again, so it's nice occasionally to get ones that pretty much are already .
Does anybody know what the kind of little extra bump bit on the heel is for...? (@Steve56)
I know @Luc did some very interesting research into this exact razor, but I'm not sure the purpose of the bump was ever got to the bottom of (apart from apparently it's going to be a pain to hone!)
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I will not kill all the work on this but be aware that the 'Ward Bros.' in this post is not the same Ward Bros that made the razor. The correct Ward Bros is in post #11. This research is long overdue. I was given this straight razor by johnmrson in exchange of doing the research. I...www.badgerandblade.com
(apart from apparently it's going to be a pain to hone!)
You can simply not run the stabilizer up on the hone or you can grind the heel off.
Either will work, but learning to not hone the stabilizer is a skill worth acquiring IMO, especially if you hone razors for others who may not care for a ground off heel or a honed stabilizer. They generally want their razor back looking like it was when it was sent.
Correct. And it shouldn't get in the way of the honing.Yeah - I have in the past found myself honing the stabilizer on razors a bit, so pay more attention to it now. TBH I don't really use the very heel of a razor's edge much, so don't really need to push it as far as possible.
That particular razor I actually found very easy to hone, and the bump bit didn't appear to make any difference at all. I assumed I wasn't meant to try be honing the bump bit - to my mind it's just a bump rather than being an extension of the edge (?)