What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

I am (and will be) continuing a single razor "edge" evaluation on the Wacker Barbers Bride.

I sent it for honing to a gentleman who prefers Shapton edges and goes to 30K. He finishes with a technique I've learned to be called 'jointing'. There is no disrespect intended here for others, just info. I have read opinions about his edges that border on the absolutes. I do not think it beats a shavette edge, but it is pretty good. I've finally learned how to do a successful hanging hair test, get a donation from the brush of The Lovely Mrs Headroom.

It has been a couple weeks and I'm trying to shave with it daily. It was the opinion of the Honer that 'over stropping' degrades the edge, so I am limiting to 10 cycles on a hanging leather piece at shave time.

In two weeks, it seems the edge has moved from a cautious sharp to a more comfortable sharp for my style.

Besides the pre-shave hanging strop routine, I elected to go with 1/10 micron cBN emulsion on glass mounted nanocloth. This substrate is supposed to have zero effect on the edge, isolating the action to the media used. So far 5-7 shaves between treatments, and a finish with a few light passes on roo.



Most of my other abrasive strop compounds are on balsa for this magnet mount 3x11 setup. I'm just going to stick with minimums and add as I feel needed.

This could wind up being a long test. If I recall, I went something like 60 shaves on my training razor. I am supposing that to be a good thing.

Here, so far, so good.

 

Shaving with the Salamander today with 32 hours of growth. I can finally stop referring to the little boy as a problem child as it is now my kind of shave ready. It just needed more diamond/balsa stropping.

 

What a chopper, wow

 

Another frameback... but this one is the “Best Razor!”

Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

Cedric Christ Custom Old School 1830s
Strop Martin J. Rubin 4601 New York
Semogue TSN LE Boar
Art of Shaving Sandalwood
Guerlain Santal Royal Edp​

 

Today, I shaved with my vintage 5/8 Wostenholm pipe razor.

 

very nice Joe..

 

13/16+ CVH MK 33 in ivory, soap was Pre de Provence lathered with a Tulip 2. A splash of Myrsol Limon finished off a lovely shave with summer scents.

I’m going to measure how much PdP it takes per shave over the next few days, I have a ‘project’ in mind. So the brush and soap will stay the same for a few days.

 

Thanks Gary!

 

Another top notch shave from my other ivory John & Wm Ragg Napoleon. I’m about to declare this my favorite razor.

Hot water preparation
AOS Lavender PSO
Barrister & Mann Reserve Lavender
Romera Wengue Chubby Manchurian Badger
John & Wm Ragg Napoleon 11/16
AOS Lavender After Shave Balm



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Hart Steel 7/8

 

Hisihosi 500
But if you cut it in 1/2, is it now a 250????

Not ashamed to admit that this is the most intimidating razor I own. I need to adjust every stroke to make sure that point doesn’t find a hollow to dig into.

It gets 3 chances, no more than that. I survived, no blood, but the aftershave reminded me it had a little alcohol in it.

A satisfying feeling to have that one in the books.
Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

Near shavette edge on the #136.

 

If it were me, I would round that toe end out a lot, and lessen the chances of a blood letting.

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That would be the prudent thing to do.

My observation with these extreme shorties is our hand tends to slightly rotate away from the face ( and lather). I barely notice that with a normal length blade, even with a spike point.

But when it is this short, you notice it very quickly with a bite. Definitely not a razor to use daily, but like I said... fun challenge.
Tom

 

After years of challenging myself to avoid slices by the ear or bites I finally succumbed to muting the points on my straights. Now I wonder what too me so long?

 

Shave #21 on the Filly Sub Cero edge longevity test. Soap was PdP lathered with a Tulip 2, and a splash of Myrsol Agua Balsamica finished up.

I can tell that the edge isn’t fresh off the stones now, but it shaves very closely and very smoothly. The alcohol-based AB didn’t even tingle, so at a third of the way into the project, it’s doing as well or better than the the two others that I’ve tested.

 

Great shave, with a German Made razor. It took 3 days growth off, in two passes. This left me near BBS. Fantastic handling and shaving razor.

Razor- M.Jung #80, New York. Made In Germany.
Brush- B400, By Tom(@twhite ). Omega Knot.
Soap- ARKO/Avon Spicy Scented
Aftershave- Pinaud Clubman

 

Revisor 6/8 full hollow

 

Hoshi Tombo 6500 First edition
Strop Martin J. Rubin 4601 New York
Muhle Fibre Silvertip XL
Saponificio Varesino Cubebe
Saponificio Varesino Cubebe Aftershave lotion
Saponificio Varesino Cubebe Edp​