What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

DD Dwarf fresh off the lapping films
Baume.be
Col Conk synthetic knot
Dickinson witch hazel
Pinaud clubman
thanks Brian for the Dwarf nudge

 

PRC 7/8 Damascus 3/4 hollow

 

I’ve not seen that model before, very nice!


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What a nice shave!
Portland Razor Company Siren

 

Thank you - I am a sucker for interesting tang shapes... and that it is 90+ years old is just cool.

 

i like the shape of that blade..

 

Bartmann 86

 

Sunday's Shave
1969 Stiz Osobaya Russian Straight
Had a very nice and close shave with this razor .Still tweaking the edge in .Still gave me a BBS Shave .

 

Thanks. I do too. It’s s wonderful shaver.

 

Shortened Filarmonica 14 Sub Cero
I got lucky where the chunk was - able to keep the name intact... but had to change it to a round point to keep it.

Enjoy your shave!
Tom

 

Todays shave was with a German/American Made Razor. I had a spectacular 2 pass shave, that left me BBS. Zero issues, just a fine shaving razor, that takes a very fine edge.

Razor- "Brandt No115" Extra Hollow Ground. The M.L.Brandt Cutlery Co. New York and Germany.
Brush- Wilkinson Sword Boar
Soap- Arko/Sandalwood Scented
Aftershave- Vintage Avon Spicy. Triple Crown Decanter

 

Love the scales on your Brandt .

 

Razors: GD66 and FW Engels (Testing differences in edges. Gd66 has Arkie edge by me, Engels has 16k synth followed by Escher by @M14Shooter )
Soap: Cella
Brush: Fullmoon Knot by Milton @ TurnNShave
A/S: Big Beard Qlum followed by Nivea Sensitive

GD66 took the left side of my face, Engels got the right side.

GD66 had a little trouble going against the grain. Slightly. After that the XTG, XTG passes had no issues.

Engels had no trouble what so ever in any pass.

After apply alum, splash, dry and applying the aftershave ( no huge difference in stinging from alum), I took a quick feel around to see if any difference in the shave could be felt. Both sides of my face feel nice and smooth. Dont feel much irritation on other side post shave. I do like the edge that M14 has on the Engels a lot. I'm gonna have to work more on my honing technique to get that 66 Arkie edge better. But had fun 8m any case.

 

The Black Surgical Arkie is just gone to smooth and polish your edge a little .The key is a proper bevel followed by a progression up to about 12-16 K .The Arkie is not gone to remove deep scratches .The key is to put a shave ready edge on the Arkie and it will improve and smooth it out in most cases.

 

Thank you. They are unique looking, arent they?

 

i view the Arkansas Surgical Black stone, as a "Super Finisher". It is to be used "After" your other finishers are used. It is very very hard, tight grained stone, that @M14Shooter is correct at saying: will improve an already shave ready edge.

 

looks cool..

 

Thank you

 

Shave #12 with the Filly 14 edge longevity test, still shaving like just off the stones, so far, so good. Cream was D. R. Harris Marlborough lathered with a Simpsons 57 Best. Myrsol Plastic topped it off. A really nice shave. I haven’t used D. R. Harris in a while, they’re great creams.

Cheers, Steve

 

Torrey Razor Company