After becoming extremely immersed into the whole wet shaving scene lately, I remembered seeing my grandpa's SR in a small box of stuff that I've been packing around for ~10 years. I went to the storage unit today and found it in the last box, on the bottom, in the back corner of the unit. I forgot how good of shape it is in, with no rust near the pivot. It says Romo, Solingen Germany on the coffin. Romo is imprinted on the blade, with some etching on the edge portion. . I'm not sure how old it is, but I'm positive it is at least 50 years old. Any help ID'ing it would be appreciated.
I know nothing about SR shaving. I don' thave a hone OR a strop. Sounds like I may be buying them though lol. I haven't even got a DE shave on my face yet and I'm already drooling for MOAR!
I think Steve may mean going the easy route and simply sending it out to be honed by a honemaster for $15 or so, they do the sharpening for you , you can buy a strop and then you are set. One member here GSSIXGUN , Glen is one such honemaster. Likely the razor is a little older than 50 years old, Romo is the razor name or possibly brand name, Solingen just means it was made in Solingen Germany where the bulk of blades we see were. You can go to the straight razor site, Straight Razor Place and look up Romo to understand more about the brand/name.
Hanzo is absolutely steering you in the right direction. Send a PM to Glen and when he is available, he can better identify that and help you with a plan for your razor.
jb, none of the rest of us knew anything about SR until the first time. When you get it honed to shave ready and try it for the first time, you can bet that your Grand Dad will be smiling. You have a treasure there, make the most of it. There are a lot of vids here on the Den and on you tube that show the proper way to wield a SR, and a nice group of people to answer your questions and build up your willingness to try.
Thanks for all the awesome input! I'll send him a message since I have 4 straights now that need some attention.
Very nice! My Mom has my grandpa's straight somewhere in her house. Someday she's going to find it and send it to me. I'm jealous!
Wow, what a treasure! And in such good shape too. Don't sweat using a str8. There is a bit of a learning curve but there is enough fear in all of us to keep our heads attached, the rest is just figuring out the proper angle to get the hairs off.
I am so envious!!!! I am a farmers son........Unfortunately my first memories of a straight razor are my grandfather's. It had been sharpened with a very course grinding stone and was used to cut the string/rope on bales of hay.
i would send someting as irreplacable as that to Glen also. Sweet, as steve said that should hone up nice and give generations of service yet again
Great find looks lovely I would get that beauty honed up and give it a run out, looks in super condition, I bet with a light restore you could make that razor come up like new, if it were mine I would have had the scales off before you could finish reading this. Regards Jamie
This one is going to be a bit more of a challenge I am going to try and save those scales by trying an acetone weld on the crack, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't there were so many different formulas for the old celluliod that you never know until you try ... If it doesn't work I have other ideas for new scales up to and including lifting the Solingen tab and moving it to new scales... The blade looks to be in great shape will know more when I start on it... This might be a fun one
