What Straight Razor Did You Use Today?

I get it...is it a stubby?

 

Sweet, smooth German razor with French-made soap! Já! Le meilleur !

 

I was thinking I don't need another razor but zigzagpapa has a few cheap NOS razors. All the western Japanese razors, no matter the price, are great. I was also thinking that you might message him and ask him to add "make offer". I had a seller contact me once when no one was bidding and asked if I would buy at at certain price since I'd asked questions about the razor. Go for it. You've given him enough money to get special status.

By the way, mid way to the toe felt rough on the second pass, so I'm going to take it back to the hones or the film tonight.

 

Schulze and Bartmann may be my favorite German makers. Revisor has a stock of NOS Schulze razors you might want to check out.

 

What?

 

I don't remember, but is Puma a French razor?

 

I'm assuming that means "Packwood"...early Sheffield razors made up until the 1830's. Mostly stub tails. Or I'm completely wrong...

Puma is Solingen. It's OK lindyhopper, we're all getting old

 

Yes,German.

 

Puma sounds so un-German. Where are those South American razor makers? They should take the Puma name or even the USA.

 

Yeah...just a badly punning reference to an old Packwood. I'd posted it yesterday *here* and so figured the venerable membership 'round here might be a little quicker on the uptake. Yoos really is gettin' old!

Pretty stubby yup...and kinda straight too. Doesn't seem to curve as much as some of the other ones I've...aw hell, I'm not doing this!

I poached this chart from a thread over on SRP, and to my eye it looks closest to the "1815" example shown there, but who knows how accurate any of this stuff really is. I know that I'm no collector but I do definitely enjoy returning something so old to a useful condition again.




And on these charts it's actually in the "1775-1810" category, so again, who really knows...

 

I certainly don't know much about them, but from what I've seen they seem to have often been a fairly fancy razor with lots of engraving and gold leaf and whatnot. Inlaid scales seem to be something of a Puma feature as well, though I haven't as yet seen any with the fancy bolstered scales.

Here's the Puma entry in SRP's library.

 

I used the last chart above to estimate, per the tail shape, the date of this W&B to be in the 1830-1845 realm.

 

These are good general guides. There are some gray areas however, for example, I routinely see old French razors from as late at the 1870's and assume them to be seventy years older as many French manufacturers maintained the old style much longer than other countries.

 

Those pesky French…….

 

That's what I was going to say. Peppy LePew...

 

"Look...I'm giving a cigarette to a baby..."




Love it! Requiescat in pace Robin.

 

The last Puma I restored was an early model made out of Sheffield steel so a British German highbred I'm sorry I sold the razor on maybe the fact it was a round point had something to do with it came as a pair with a beautiful little Oak box shame the other razor was missing, I've now fully restored the box so when I find a nice pair of vintage razors I'll use the box once again.

 

Japanese Gold Rex full hollow 13/16

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Why are round nose shavers not popular in the straight razor community?

 

For me, it's hard detailing with a round point. I wind up doing more damage to myself trying to get a cutting edge in the tight places than I do with a spike, square or French point.