It's here! The post office delivered this box this afternoon. Stamps in German and other documents to pass customs. Inside was the Revisor I had ordered....well close :hmmm: I had ordered a 5/8 model 5-0002 which was with a Green Background. It was kind of a toss up between it and the 5-0004 with the Red on the gold for the blade decoration. What I got was the 5-0003, the Blue model in-between. Would be too much hassle and cost to do an exchange with Gunter & Thomas Kronenberg, so I decided to just keep it. Here are just a few quick pics of it as it came out of the box. NOTE: My pictures taken with my Nikon and flash washed out the Gold around the blade emblems. It looks exactly like the bottom pictures, except blue. Straight out of the box I looked at the edge with the 20X Lupe and it appeared nice bevel and clean. I tried a few hairs, and they popped off anywhere along the blade length. So I lathered up tonight, stropped it about 40 times and got the smoothest silkiest shave I have ever had. No kidding, up around my mustache and down around the lower lip and chin it cut them cleanly, no bit of tugging at all. Under the neck, and then down the side of the face with nice longer strokes, it took off the whiskers, clean as a whistle. I got done with the first pass and felt and I really didn't need to do a 2nd pass, but. what the heck... why not. So I re-applied the Ogallala Bay Rum lather, glided over the area again with the Revisor razor and maybe got a bit more along the jaw line. No nicks, no cuts, not tugging not jumping, it was the sharpest razor I have ever felt. I don't know what they did to it there in Solingen Germany before packaging it up, but they really put an edge on it. Came in a nice box with some fine foam packing in the box, instructions not to cut other things just whiskers... etc. DON'T laugh!! I showed a guy at work my new Dovo a while back and told him how sharp it was, and he was going to grab some paper and cut it with the razor. I objected, he seemed pretty put out.. "What, you can't even cut paper with it?" One of those.... Still feeling my face and can't believe how quickly I got the shave done tonight and it's very smooth! I know a couple of things in my tenderfoot beginning of learning to shave with a straight razor. I like 5/8 over 6/8. I've tried Troggie's Filarmonica that is a 6/8 and it and my 6/8 DOVO seem just a bit big for me (personal opinion). Many like them for the ability to hold copious amounts of soap and whiskers. Also I like round points better. I'm glad I made my AK-SAR-BEN into a round point and on some of those I have that I really have no intentions of ever selling I have half a notion of turning those into round points. My ears and other parts that get nicked with the end of the square (or Spike) point will thank me. I can shave with them, but you really really have to pay attention to where the end of the razor is or it will remind you. This is what the one I had on my invoice and had ordered looked like for comparison... This is the model 5-0002 with the Green background on the blade. The Red one, the 5-0004 looks like this: There is probably no difference in cutting, just preference in the Green color. Only other thing I wish it had were the file jimps on the tang area. I guess super glue and sand could fix that.. *just kidding!* This link: http://www.revisor-solingen.de/html/firmenphilosophie.html expalins quite a bit. If you mouse over the picture (the one that looks like Jimmy Carter), it shows Haar test meaning "hair test" in German. Old world craftsmanship. With my last name of Jenewein, it consider the Solingen blades world class.
A beauty and I hope it serves you well even if it isn't the color you wanted. I probably wouldn't mess with returning it either.
Costs The cost was $125.54 total which was -(minus) the VAT but added 10 euros for shipping and the Paypal tax cost of 4.20 Euros. Total to enter into paypal was 88.15 Euros and then paypal does the conversion in there. By waiting for about 2 days before submitting at paypal I save a small bit. It was $126.36 two days before. If the Euro/Dollar ratio goes down it's less, if it goes up, it's more. Google "euros to dollar" and you get a conversion table right there. Just enter in the euros and it will auto tell you what the dollar costs are. Wodash, at another forum, told me that Thomas Kronenberg of Revisor told him they use a Coticule for final honing before sending them out. A real testament to the expert use of the Belgian Coticule. I have 2 Coticule slurry stones, and a Chinese 12K, but I don't have a larger length Coticule. There is sharp, and then there is, what I call, smooth sharp. This is smooth, cut the whiskers-easy-on-the-face sharp. Does that meaning make sense?
Makes perfect sense, just like your rule of not going anywhere without a knife. I've been carrying a pocketknife wherever I go, for the past 31 years. With the exception of school and government buildings. That price is not bad at all. Totally reasonable, I'd say. I've got a hankering for that stag handled version. I just don't know if the stag will absorb moisture and cause blade rust. I don't think I saw a single razor on their site that wasn't gorgeous. Some, I like better than others, but they all look good. I'm partial to the green and the red backgrounds, but the blue looks great, too. I'm glad you are happy with yours. Smooth sharp=the polar opposite of jagged=smooth cutting with no tugging/pulling=BBS shave that feels good afterward. That's enough of a testimonial for me.
I'm not gonna lie, I've fallen in love with the red one. Mark my words, I will own it someday. All the colors are beautiful though.
Perhaps you'd rather have something in a 6/8, shoulderless FULL Hollow with decorated spine file jimps and nice gold work??? Only 146.00 Euros
NOOOOO another one. DAM My favorite blade is the 5-0004, however the scales on it are nothing special. That new one you posted has pretty nice simple scales. I will try and ignore this thread... :happy102 doubt that will work though.
