What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Thank you Jeff, here’s a shoulderless rattler for you today since it’s frameback Friday.

This Jonathan Crookes rattler came in a few days ago, another badly photographed eBay razor that no one was interested in except me. But apparently it’s NOS, never been used and in it’s original coffin. The horn scales are in good shape for around 175 years old, and the two slight mist spots cleaned up without pitting.It’s spent most of the time since its arrival with neatsfoot oil on the scales.

Soap and AS were Floris Elite and the Brush a M&F Finest

 

Thank you Jeff!

 

Great find, Steve! You have a marvelous eye! Would you have a before picture?

 

Thank you for the kind words Jeff, Here ya go, 3 of the seller’s images.

 

SOTD FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 2021

RAZOR: H. Hobson Full Wedge 6/8 (Mug), Leresche 77 (Dome)
BLADE: Wilkinson Sword DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Rooney Ebony Pure Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Pre de Provence Bergamot & Thyme AS Balm.

 

Here’s a tip for those looking at poor images of razors or hones on auction sites: download or screenshot the images and adjust them in Lightroom/Photoshop, etc for a better idea of defects and so on. Especially Japanese sellers and JNat hones. Download those and pull the saturation down 30% rofl!

Anyway, these are the adjusted seller’s images of the Crookes, the seller’s images were mostly badly underexposed, but in a digital image, the detail is still there. They’re not what it will look like either, but it let me do two important things before bidding. One, I knew that there was no deep pitting and maybe most importantly, the blade wasn’t cracked. I could also tell that the scales were in at least decent shape.

 

Thanks for the pointers, Steve! Much appreciated!

 

YW Jeff, this technique on bad images has helped me avoid ‘unpleasant razors’ a time or two. The problem is that you don’t know if the seller is trying to cover up defects with bad photography or the razor is fine and the seller is just a bad photographer. Anything that helps you as a buyer/bidder is a good thing I suppose.

 

Go for it Jeff, tape is not good in my opinion. You change the angle of the edge. I think you have to kill the edge before you try without tape to make a fresh start.


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Thanks Jeff! It is really good, also the TI, Ralf Aust and Böker makes good razors. However old Swedish razors are much better in my opinion. Just my opinion to be political correct


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That’s the plan, Hans, Thanks!

 

SOTD SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER, 2021

RAZOR: Klas Tornblom 4/8 (Mug), Gillette New LC
BLADE: Feather DE (Dome)
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: MrEE LE #005 Aluminum Handled SybBad Knot
CREAM: Kapo Fresh Menthol
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Bergamot & Thyme AS Balm.

 

A wonderful Friday shave…
Filarmonica Doble Temple 14
Sold in Argentina
Brush: Shavemac
Suds: AoS Sandalwood

I do love the gold on a Filarmonica, but having the retailer’s info on the blade face is a fun differentiator for me.

Enjoy your shave.
Tom

 

The Klas are wonderful razors, the tricky part is to get the edge on them. Hard as Hell, but the edge last for a “lifetime”.


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Saturday morning shave, Thiers Issard Spartacus. Nice shave, this might be the heaviest razor I have. Splash Floris Turnbull and Asser ( surprise or not… )



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Lovely razor, Tom! Never go wrong with a Filly shave!

 

True, Hans, I needed to pull out the very aggressive stones I use for sharpening my W2 and Cru Forge V chef knife steel. It did the trick!

 

Thank you Jeff! No argument with that.

 

Kikuboshi 6500 Silver Steel, soap was MdC rose lathered with a M&F Finest, and Czech and Speake 88 AS finished up a fine Sunday morning shave.

 

GD 208 (modded) in a Cella shave.




Fantastic triple pass shave (last pass with Valet Auto Strop and carbon steel blade-not shown).