What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Christmas Eve morning shave: Mike Martinez

 

@Steve56 that's a pretty nice looking doorstop.

 

I have fallen hard for these Herder 49’s

I have an idea for a Harley gentleman’s set. Need to get on that after the holidays.
Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

Thank you, Patrick, Merry Christmas.

 

Hard not to given how great the scales turned out.

 

Still liking the work done on your scales.

 

This is a very nice S.R. DROESCHER Importer at 77-79 Warren Street, New York City; later opened a factory in Cranbury, New Jersey
ca. 1891-1924 (manufacture of razors began ca. 1916) gifted to me by my friend and honing advisor @Steveclarkus . It was restored by our favorite razor guy, J.R. Rowe.

As I said in the honing page, I did a number of laps on .5 and .3 films followed by 200k diamond pasted balsa. The shave was noticeably more efficient, but I will probably do a complete re-hone next year.

 

Thank you guys, I really appreciate it!

 

That is gorgeous. Are those original scales? I absolutely love it. I have to find one like that.

 

Super
MT Indian flavor
homemade-Shavemac Flat Top

Nice shave this morning. Merry Christmas.

 

Thank you very much.
No, the scales are of my own craziness ... a little info thread in the Razor Restoration section: https://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/hd-tribute-razor-complete.61512/

 

So you got that razor. It had been up for a while and sold 3 days before I had the money for it.

 

SOTD for Christmas Day 2019

Iwasaki
Strop Martin J. Rubin 4601 New York
Semogue LE TSN Boar
Saponificio Varesino Tundra Artica
Saponificio Varesino Tundra Artica Balm
Jo Malone Tuberose Angelica Cologne Intense​

 

Repeat of the S.R. DROESCHER
Importer at 77-79 Warren Street, New York City; later opened a factory in Cranbury, New Jersey
ca. 1891-1924 (manufacture of razors began ca. 1916)

I had more time yesterday and decided to see what I could do to improve this edge. I did a bevel set with the 30 mu film followed by 12 and 9 respectively. Then I made a slurry for the Coticule, did some initial circles followed by x strokes and finished under a small stream of water. Next came the Thuringian, the "much maligned Timber Tools Thuringian, slurry to clear held under a small stream, then 40 laps on the 1 micron followed by .5 and .3 respectively. Lastly and before a proper Illinois stropping, I did 15 laps on CrO suede and 100 laps on 200k pasted balsa.



This progression continues to produce a near or same as shavette edge. I realize some steps may be redundant/unnecessary, but it's hard to change what works. Merry Christmas all.

 

A very nice holiday shave provided by Mr. Williams...

Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

Today's shave.

GBS silvertip brush that I received in a gift exchange.

Grim blades 6/8 straight. I got a hell of a deal on it. Looks like it was never used and I got it for 10.50.

Long rifle soap co 1776 soap and aftershave

Tony miller steerdovan strop

 

Christmas morning, Tanifuji Spalding, soap was IC Mango Oil lathered with a Tulip 1 (my air travel brush, fits in a pill bottle), and a little IC Rhubarb finished up a perfect shave.

This morning, a Gold Dollar 66, the last of the Chinese razors in the ‘to do’ drawer, up and running. This is a quite decent razor, by chance I know well enough, but one of 3 that I got from a friend that used to fix them up and sell them. Almost no one has kept up doing that over the years, it’s just a lot of work for little return and fixing up these razors put a lot of wear on your hones. I use them for test razors and gifts, so a small handful is all I do at once. Cream was SMN lathered with a Rooney 1/3 Silvertip, balm was SMN body balm.

 

WOW. That looks amazing.

 

Thank you! I wish i could take credit for the design, but I'm further down the ownership line .
Love how Robert works the blade and his wife does the scale art... couldn't pass up the opportunity.

 

Christmas found me short on time, so I did a hurried two pass shave with a de. Overall a crappy shave.

This evenings shave redeemed yesterday’s shortfall. Thiers Issard 6/8.