What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

Wednesday morning shave, CVH MK No.31. Smooth as a peach .
Soap Razor Emporium old school
Brush Gents badger silver tip
Splash Floris Elite



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Sotd 11-23-23
A Thanksgiving day shave , with a swedish steel azuma near wedge. I finally honed this guy up and boy did it deliver a great bbs shave!

House of mammoth tobacconist for the suds and smells!

 

I think Axeman has the pass around goods! Congratulations on the haul sir!

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow TSDers, I hope that you’re having good times, good food, and a good shave of course!

Unusual razor up today, an 11/16 Tanifuji ‘Springwater’ or ‘Clearwater’. Thanks to friends for the translation help. David also shared that this is the name of one of his mentors in Japan, so it’s likely a surname. The extra kanji with a following period on the scales is probably an initial? This would make this a bespoke Tanifuji, I think the only one that I’ve seen. Shaves incredibly well BTW.

 

Heart of Columbia Chemical Steel

 

Beautiful razor and stone Steve!! Let me get them all honed up and Id be happy to do a pass around , I could use a few knowledgeable critics on my honing anyway! Happy thanksgiving to the den!!

 

Hows this one shave?

 

It is extra hollow so has good crisp feedback and a one pass shave ability.

 

Friday morning shave, Geneva Cutlery 6/8”. Smooth as a peach .
Soap Laugar Rimfrost
Brush Gents badger silver tip
Splash Floris Elite



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It’s probably the Swedish steel that makes it so good


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What exactly is Chemical Steel"? To me, it looks the same as Swedish Silver Steel from the color.

 

Take this with a grain of salt Scott, I read some where if it's a Japanese razor and it says chemical steel it's usually a steel from Germany. That could be 100 percent bs too

 

It might be "Columbia Chemical " steel.

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM73629

The company name seems to have been reused.

https://www.columbiachemical.com/about-us/columbia-chemical-history/

 

Fine, fine shave with the Tamako - the feel is really exceptional

Hot water preparation
Captain Nemo’s Absolute Zero Shave Soap
Romera Wenge Chubby Manchurian Badger
Tamako YSK Masa Steel 6/8
Myrsol Blue After Shave



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Saturday Straights' Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
b-pure Shave Soap
Frank Shaving Badger
SXDGS 5/8
CWR
Hendrick's Witch Hazel
Florida Water

The b-pure Shave Soap lathered well with the Frank Shaving Badger brush. Two passes and touch ups with the SXDGS 5/8 straight gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Hendrick's Witch Hazel and then Florida Water. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Lovely shave with my only American steel

Hot water preparation
MSC Frosted Lavender Shaving Soap
Romera Wenge Chubby Manchurian Badger
Thistle Cut 6/8
AOS Lavender After Shave Balm



Happy shaving - Karl

 

Just one of the many names for the steel all the makers used to make their razors seem more special. German razors do it too. I have blades that say Extra Tungsten or chromium, best silver steel and maybe there's a difference in what's added to the steel. The Japanese used Swedish steel mostly. The ones using Japanese steel say Masa, Tamahagane or Yasuki steel, made from iron sands from a river in Japan. That steel really is special.

 

I am a fan of Swedish Steel. I read on many places, over the years, that Japan imported steel from Sweden, for their razors. Whatever the chemical make-up is, the Swedish Steel razors always seemed brighter, and a little more resistant to oxidation.

 

Cape 1372, software was 3P and Myrsol Agua di Limon. A Semogue Galahad did the lathering.

 

User grade Tanifuji Wogen today. This razor had a good bit of pitting on the bevel, was a test for a Naniwa 400 grit diamond stone. I’ve been looking for a solution for the ‘heavy lifts’ that don’t leave deep scratches like a DMT 325 seems to leave. The DS removed metal quickly and I cleaned up the 400 scratches with a Shapton Glass 1k. Off a 325 DMT I would have used a SG 500.The DS did produce a large sawtooth fin, but I wasn’t trying to prevent it. A normal amount of honing through the progression left me with a nice looking bevel with no residual deep scratches. The shave was excellent!

Software was a repet of yesterday’s shave and an Omega 49 did the lthering.

 

Sotd 11-26-23

Chose the daishi for today's shave! What a shaver! The balance of this blade impressed me the most. It left me bbs with a single pass and a few clean up strokes! Lathered up with m&m tobac fanaile !