What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Enjoyable shave with my Lund near wedge today - I think somewhere I’d read that John & Wm Ragg made these for Lunds. I don’t know but they are wonderful razors.

Hot water preparation
Argan Oil PSO
Savile Row 3824
Ethos Lisse Collection Lavender Shave Soap
Lund near wedge 11/16, er 17.4625mm
AOS Lavender After Shave Balm



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Friday morning shave, JA Hellberg, half wedge. Nice shave



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George Woshtenholme to celebrate the return of the thread.

 

A celestial shave this morning, Le Grelot Coupe Celeste, fresh off a fine Nakayama kiita. It shaved like a butterknife, no sensation of sharpness at all, yet of course it was very sharp. Cream and balm were ABC, and a Keyhole 4 did the lathering. Turn it up to 11, lol.

 

Some small razor love today. This Lund is Saturday of a four day set. They are what I call midi in size - 9/16 and 2.75” in length instead of the standard 3”. But an edge is an edge regardless of how much steel is behind it and Saturday provided a very efficient and smooth shave

Hot water preparation
Argan Oil PSO
Shavemac 2-Band Silvertip Badger
Castle Forbes 1445 Shaving Cream
Lund “midi” 9/16 - Saturday
Thayers Rose Petal Witch Hazel



Happy shaving - Karl

 

F14 Sub Cero, soap was Asylum Colonia beta 4.1 lathered with a @Life2short1971 ’Buck Rodgers’ two band. A splash of AdP Colonia finished up a great Saturday shave.

 

Iwasaki
Brush: Elite Razors
Suds & Splash: A&E “The Undersea”
Finish: John Varvatos Artisan Pure

Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

How does the face feel and shave from an Iwasaki compare to some of your other blades?

 

It’s a half hollow so it feels very solid... business like. Honestly feels like I could chuck it across the room and still pick it up and shave.
As far as the shave, the grind allows for an easy, comfortable shave. Trying to come up with some comparables, my mind goes to my Staraet and weirdly to my Bill Ellis modified Wapienica. That last comp really should make no sense since the Wapi is stainless, but it does to me.

 

I swore an oath that I would never buy another razor but damn that red Filarmonica looks nice!

 

Yes, it’s a looker @Tedolph I doubt that you’d regret it.

M.K. 31-1/2 - An M.K. 32 that was worn to about 11/16 and not so pretty until I did some corrective honing to relieve the heel and re-shape the toe to something like the original shape. It still smiles a little but I’m good with that. The M.K. 32 ivory scales are quite a nice addition. This is also a ‘dimanche’ or Sunday razor from a 7-day set, so it’s my own version of the Dovo Sunday Shaver. I like mine better.

Cream and AS were Acqua di Parma, the brush was a Keyhole 3. Lovely Sunday shave.

 

The CVH MK 30 series is something special. Your razor is a beauty! It is hard to explain how they are to shave with, I would say gentle and smooth


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Thank you Hans@

 

Could also be that my grandfather was grinder at CVH. His expertise was straight razors and scissors. That could be the reason that I love the CVH razors, or could it be that they are top notch razors? I really think about if one or perhaps more of my razors would have been made by Grandfather..


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William Gay & Son
Brush: AP Shave Co.
Suds: Catie’s Bubbles Purple Grapefruit
Splash: Dr Jon’s Flower in the Dark
One of an old Sheffield’s gentleman’s set.

Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

Monday morning shave, Rabinore Tagore. Finally I have found the holy grail. Super sharp after a new set of hone stones:
Naniwa 3000+5000 grit
Satake 10.000 grit
Stropping on leather + Balsa wood
Yaki-Ire 12.000 Natural stone
Stropping on leather.

Proraso Crema Pre Barba
Monsieur Mister soap
Proraso Balsamo Dopo Barba
Splash Floris Turnbull & Asser
Ready to Rock!



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F14 Sub Cero, cream was SMN and the balm was ABC red sandalwood.

 

First the red, now the blue - both are stunning

 

I don’t think I can get a better shave than what this Rigarazor provides. Absolutely fantastic shave

Hot water preparation
Argan Oil PSO
Shavemac 2-Band Silvertip Badger
Castle Forbes 1445 Shaving Cream
Rigarazor 8/8
Thayers Rose Petal Witch Hazel



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Thank you Karl. I think that nothing is as elegant for a man’s razor scales as black horn or ivory.

But the colors are true to the Filarmonica razors and they add some spice to a usually bland ‘tool’.