What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

I bought both hammers, followed up by buying two Japanese straights. I almost bought a brass hammer, since the metal is softer and less likely to damage other metal. What's the typical use of brass hammers?

 

Brass hammers are used for lots of things such as hitting steel bearings fine work such as expensive shotguns as the softer brass won't mark the steel, also working near combustible liquids as they won't spark.

 

You guys have been busy since I've been on vacation.

6/8 Prior
Cold River Barbershop
Homemade horse
I've been struggling with my technique this week. I shaved off my goatee and have apparently forgotten how to shave my chin. Nothing serious just a few weepers but I find poor technique aggravating. Anybody can make a mistake but I've been making them to consistently. Have a good one.

 

The chin is always difficult for me. I never come away weeper-free.

 

Revisor 8/8

 

Thiers-Issard 7/8

 

That's a beauty

 

Used my Revisor 8/8 today. It was not shaving right so back to the hone it went and a lot of stropping and yahoo. BBS today

 

I am in love with this razor

 

Beautiful

 

This



I can finally post in this thread now

 

Cheers thanks for the praise, even though the razor was made and ground in Japan there's a Wustof symbol on the Guarantee and the gold etching and the scales are exactly the same as the German Wusthof Barber King there must have been some sort of collaboration between Germany and Japan, If you saw the German Wustof and this Japanese Three Kings you would swear they are the same razor and the Barber King Hoffritz is also the same razor, they were all for Barbers use, mine is made from Swedish steel they are fantastic razors and you don't just see the quality but you feel it as well when in use, this one came to me as NOS and it's not a razor I've come across that often.

 

That may be the finest looking razor I have ever laid eyes on

 

That is truly gorgeous

 

Thank you. It shaves great too.

 

So many SR beauties in this thread!

 

Shaved off the 8-day beard this morning using a W&B 13/16 wedge on one side and a Garland 5/8 half hollow on the other. I was curious as to whether there'd be any perceptible difference in the shave between a wedge and a modern hollow grind when dealing with much longer than typical whiskers. They certainly felt different, but the shave was really equally smooth and close from each. Two fantastic razors IMO.

 

Usually with a wedge, there is no feedback sound like a full hollow. Did you notice that?

 

I sure did Robert, but that was also true with just a typical day's worth of stubble. What I had also previously noticed was that, when trimming around my goatee, the hollow blade was less likely to inadvertently cut any of the long whiskers without me supplying a little extra force, whereas the wedges where more than capable of cutting through the goatee whiskers if I wasn't paying close enough attention! But somewhat to my surprise, I found the hollow Garland completely capable this morning. It did need a little extra push behind it, but the extra was constant and so basically unnoticeable after the first few strokes (so every bit as efficient as the wedge in taking on somewhat longer beard growth IMO).

FWIW too, I find the my wedge blades do actually make enough sound that I can still hear the stubble popping, it's just a lot more muffled than with the hollow blades. Bottom line though - it sure felt good to shave again!

 

I have a little jewelers hammer (kind of like this guy: http://www.esslinger.com/chasershammer.aspx) that's a peach for pinning.

Jamie, I've occasionally seen the Wustof symbol on scales, tangs and boxes of Japanese razors-your minute history lesson helped to close that knowledge gap a bit-Thank You.

Fellows, I've been a busy boy in my shave den. A few photos for posterity follow. A funny story about the old Octagonal Drop clock on the wall in the pic below. It was in the old Page School building in Boone, Iowa until one day in 1958 or '59 the building was about to be demo'd. My dad, being a keen preservationist and historian, not wanting to see the clock destroyed in the ensuing demo took the liberty of stealing it . In what must be a kind of knee-jerk response from the genetic linkage in our DNA, when he was recently hospitalized and away from the ol' house for a few days, I stole it from him . The conversation where I broke the news to him in his hospital room went something like this:

Me: (casually) "By the way Dad, I took the old Page School clock out of your shop. It lives in my Shave Den now."
Dad: (no words for a few moments...looking up to the heavens) "You waited until I had a heart attack, and with me fighting for my life in the hospital when my guard was down you snuck into my shop and took my clock...?"
Me: (proudly) "Yup!"
Dad: "Good. I was worried you weren't paying attention all these years."

Not so much SOTD this post, but definitely Shave Den Progress photos:







Lots of scrounging up vintage bottles and juice. That's about a '65 vintage Old Spice and the last of my 1975 vintage Royall Bay Rhum alongside those sweet ED Pinaud bottles. Some brush restos, figured out where I wanted to permanently mount the strop rack, and solved (though have not yet mounted said solution...Wifey says no power tools after 10PM) my "How to Display and Store my Straights" dilema. Found a nice display case that will be going where the Pabst Girl is now, pics of the new razor display to follow when completed. Pabst Girl can live over by the shower. Hubba-hubba!