What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Duck

Second great shave with this razor.


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Frederick Fenney 'Tally Ho' (1840-50); 8/8 " restored.

 

You're riding that Fenney train Kevin - they must be something special.

 

Karl, I do have a thing for many of these old Sheffield makers...

 

Route 66 Twisted Tweed Soap
B-400 Brush by Tom
Portland Razor Company Siren
Lucky Tiger
Pitrulon Classic After Shave
Have fun!

 

Tonight's shave was with a French Surgical Straight. It had been an OK shaver before, and now is a very good razor. I had a near silent 2 pass shave. I looked and found that it was a near Full Wedge. This is a stiff and solid shaving razor, but very smooth. The scales are made of Stainless Steel, so it's a heavy razor. I had a near BBS shave with no nicks, cuts, or weepers.

Razor- French Surgical Straight. "H.G." Near Full Wedge.
Brush- Semogue 1800 Boar
Soap- ARKO/Sandalwood
Aftershave- Shulton Old Spice. MMMM MMMM Good.

 

Columbia Cutlery Worcester Mass 5/8 Fresh off the hone.I used Sharpton glass up to 16 K .Then soften the edge on my JNat.I was shocked on how well this razor took an edge.Great old American steel.Shaved wonderfully.

 

A very nice shave with my Paketa (Rocket) juiced with an Arkie finish.

Hot water preparation
AOS Lavender PSO
Haslinger Schafmilch Shave Soap
Shavemac 2-Band Silvertip
1961 Paketa (Rocket) STIZ factory 11/16
Osma Bloc d'Alun
AOS Lavender After Shave Balm



Happy shaving Comrades - Karl

 

Ahh, Commies are coming back around. I guess I will need to get mine out, and have a Commie shave.

 

Old Wade and Butcher

 

Raketa, not Paketa ;-)

The "P" is actually an R in the cyrillic alphabet. Raketa is the russian word for rocket.

 

Hi everyone. Today's shave:




- Chiseled Face "Ghost Town Barber"
- Thäter 26mm 2-band
- Mastro Livi "Grifetto"
- Thayers Witch Hazel

Fantastic shave, close and smooth. This is the best straight razor in my den - although my new Wacker duo is very very close

 

Look at the scales. It says Paketa.

 

I think he is just telling us how it is pronounced.

Tom


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Sounds good to me.

 

The R sound is how it is pronounced but it is spelled with a P character. The razor is a 1961 and coincides with Yuri Gagarin's launch as the first person into space. That's why the pin commemorating that event is in the picture.

 

...and if I was really clever I'd use the Cyrillic script which you can see on the tang of the razor.

 

Tonight's shave was with a Vintage DOVO, Solingen. It had a very sharp edge on it, after I restored and honed it, but I cannot leave well enough alone. I touched it up on the Surgical Black Arkie progression, and it came out beyond my expectations. It was super sharp, and very very smooth. I had a great BBS 2 pass shave, without touch ups.

Razor- Vintage DOVO, Solingen
Brush- B400 By Tom
Soap- ARKO/Sandalwood
Aftershave- Vintage Avon Spicy

 

Last couple of days I used my Challenge Cutlery. Nothing special, American made plain Jane, but one I love using for some reason. I little tuggy yesterday, so I touched it up on the Swaty and finished it off on the Arkie. My face is now "Arkie smooth "

 

Koraat 8/8