The Straight Razor Acquisition Thread

Waiting on this Beautiful Puma 83 Solingen 5/8th Arriving from France..Obviously Made for the French Market..Never Seen Another Like this One..I Am Delighted..Hanging Out to Get this Beauty Queen on the Hones...



Billy..

 

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Lovely Puma Billy
She looks like she just came out of the factory !

 

Have not bought a razor in over a Month .Could not let this one go .Hope I did not bid against fellow member .

NOS Towa 8074 Straight Razor Extra Hollow Ground, Extra Tungsten Steel H. Diamond

 

Nice looking Japanese Razor.

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But had to start my beauty rest before it ended. Supposedly it has the original grease on it - nice pickup Mike.

 

My Puma Just Arrived from France...Its a Number 83 Model Full Hollow 5/8th Made for the French Market with Fancy Scales...Its Never Been Used as it has the Factory Bevel...Its Gorgeous & Near Mint..I Will Get this Beautiful Lady on the Hones Later...

Delighted..

Billy..

 

I recently got this dubl duck satin wedge & had never seen one as worn down as this there is no hollow.
I do not use tape makes this unusable for my usage.
Anyone can use this?

 

Yeah..Use Tape to Fill in the Hone Ware on the Spine...Might Need to Use a Couple of Layers of Tape..Or Patches of Tape on the Worst Hone Ware Bits then Use a Layer of Tape on Top...I Hope that Makes Sense..I Have Honed Worse..Using this Method..These SRs with a Lot of Hone Ware are a Bugger...I Get them from Other Folks..I Avoid Em for Myself...

Billy..

 

Start with three layers, and see how it works. Just mark the edge with a Sharpie, to see how much it helps.

 

Some fine looking straights in the past few posts! I came across this interesting website that has some cool mid evil-era looking blades. How great would it be to have one of these, or better yet, be able to forge one of these! yourself! What do you think?
http://www.sageblades.com/straight-razors/
and
https://www.classicshaving.com/collections/dylan-farnham-custom?limit=all

 

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As I scroll, I am looking for something to capture my attention with those 3 things in the equation.
This one originally did not.

But for some reason I scrolled back up before closing out the search.
The tang and tail proportions looked “off” for some reason, so I went into the listing... and I’m glad I did.

I’m used to sellers putting dimensions like 6.25” or total length 10.5”, so that didn’t seem weird at first. But as I scrolled the pics, that was the length of the CUTTING EDGE?!?!?

Turned out to be one of those advertising razors. This example being from the sellers grandfather, who was a barber for 62 years. This was actually on my wish list, but I never really expected one.

Here it is next to a 15/16 German 14 for comparison... wow it looks tiny.

So, I most definitely (nope), probably (nope), possibly (nope), not a snowballs chance in hell will take this to my face. But they did say it was restored & sharpened.
Happy hunting,
Tom

 

cool razor sir..

 

Very cool. I want to see pics of you actually shaving, with that Machete.

 

The razor is almost daring me to try.
But I will say, it is very nicely ground and really does look like their normal sized razor... just on steroids.

 

So, hone it up, and give it a spin.

 

Waiting on this Engels Leader Coming from the States..Looks Like a 6/8th to Me & NOS..Its a Minter thats for Sure..

...Now the Big Wait..

Billy..