What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Discussion in 'Straight Razors' started by lindyhopper66, Nov 30, 2013.

  1. jamespasini69

    jamespasini69 Well-Known Member

  2. jamespasini69

    jamespasini69 Well-Known Member

    Nice looking razor
     
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  3. cubancigar2000

    cubancigar2000 Well-Known Member

    20150821_080059_resized.jpg Dorko 401 7/8 nos - these things are built to quality standards. Big, heavy & three pin, right up my wheelhouse
    Le Pere Lucien w/Coates crème
    Floid Blue
    just a fantastic shave today
     
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  4. kamp

    kamp Well-Known Member

    image.jpg Revisor 8/8
     
  5. cubancigar2000

    cubancigar2000 Well-Known Member

    resized bohler.jpg brush.jpg Calio Trapani Bohler Stahl 6/8 - restored by Holyrollah
    Le Pere Lucien & Coates crème- best ever ubelather
    FS Silvertipknot in a Brushcraft handle
    AS - Le Pere Lucien
    It just does not get any better for me than todays shave
     
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  6. HolyRollah

    HolyRollah BaconLord

    Very cool brush! :happy088:
    I see you wrestled the razor back from your wife! :D

    Afeitado del sábado: ¡El Doble de Pato con la Cella! ¡Magnífico!
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  7. cubancigar2000

    cubancigar2000 Well-Known Member

    we quite often use the same razors. You can rest assured she will want it again
     
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  8. Drygulch

    Drygulch Snowballs

    8/22/15 SOTD
    Two days’ growth
    Prep: Face Wash
    Razor: Ontario Cutlery Co. 5/8 (Muted) Spike Point
    Strop: Drygulch Chromexcel/ Linen
    Soap: Barrister & Mann Seville
    Brush: Omega 1066 Boar
    Post Shave: Cold Water Rinse, Alum Block, Thayer’s Witch Hazel
    Aftershave: Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue
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    Great shave today, and I think I finally got the edge where I want it.
     
  9. entropy1049

    entropy1049 Well-Known Member

    Day 2 ODH:

    20 strokes linen, 30 cordovan. Not a lick of difference between yesterdays shave and todays. My beard will generally put an edge through it's paces (I typically strop on CrOx every 2-4 shaves). The ODH was every bit as keen today. When the Floid blue hit my face, it was like cool water. Not a lick of burn. This razor is producing some very comfortable shaves.

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  10. HolyRollah

    HolyRollah BaconLord

    Looking at it in your avatar, I'm not surprised! :D

    I used the Cella this morning (saw your red tub in the bowl) for the first time in months! Boy, what was I thinking relegating that soap to no-man's-land?
    Great lather, superb scent, and skin felt great post-shave! Obviously I've too many soaps….
     
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  11. Jamie Mahoney

    Jamie Mahoney Well-Known Member

    King Pelican

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  12. entropy1049

    entropy1049 Well-Known Member

    It's one that does tend to fly under the radar. I love the stuff. have a 1 kilo block that I slice a blob off of to pack into my tub when it's time. Top tier soap at low tier prices = :D

    This KP is as nice as I've ever seen one. I swear, some day I'm going to Wales and rooting through Jamie's garbage looking for discarded packaging with return addresses to gather intel about his J-West honey holes...:p
     
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  13. Jamie Mahoney

    Jamie Mahoney Well-Known Member


    You won't find any info in my garbage Mike all contacts and info are shredded and incinerated soon after arrival, :) I also have NOS Tanifuji Fukutaro Cape Kennedy 77 coming in very soon my contact in Japan told me it was made by the master himself in 1959 just so happens to be my birth year razor as well I couldn't turn that one down.
     
  14. entropy1049

    entropy1049 Well-Known Member

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    Don't know a date of manufacture, but got the NOS CK77 base covered. But no KP. Maybe someone at your post office can be bribed to scribe the return addresses on all of your packages arriving from Japan? Unless you've already bought their silence...;)
     
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  15. Jamie Mahoney

    Jamie Mahoney Well-Known Member

    Mike I believe that because they were made in limited numbers they were all probably made in 1959.
     
  16. HolyRollah

    HolyRollah BaconLord

    Vintage CMON Caddy…
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  17. cubancigar2000

    cubancigar2000 Well-Known Member

    ernresized.jpg 1-brushcraft 002.JPG I touched up 4 of my razors today because they just did not feel quite right. I used two today and they were perfect after 8k naniwa snow white, 12k naniwa & Apache Strata
    Ern crown & Sword w/gold etch & Hess 99
    MDC Fourgere
    Brushcraft with Franks Shaving knot 25mm silvertip
    Floid Amber
     
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  18. lindyhopper66

    lindyhopper66 Well-Known Member

    Dovo 55 Fritz Bracht​

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  19. BudWhite

    BudWhite Well-Known Member

    This is my first foray into Japanese Westerns. I bought 2 on eBay from a Japanese vendor for only 25 bucks a piece! They both had some rust but were in otherwise superb shape.

    One of them, a Kikuboshi, is getting new scales. This is an Eagle Razor 6/8 extra full hollow. It took a beautiful, easy edge on the chosera 1k, Norton 8k, naniwa 12k progression. Just had a wonderful shave after 60 laps on the buffalo leather.

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  20. kamp

    kamp Well-Known Member

    image.jpg Today I used my el Druida with a 28 manchurian 2 band, what a good brush soft but with enough backbone.
    For the razor I used my Japanese Royal 6/8. Had a great shave
     

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