That is a nice razor.M. Jung No. 80
Coticule>Welsh purple slate>Black Translucent Arkansas>TM Linen/Leather 50/60
That is a nice razor.M. Jung No. 80
Coticule>Welsh purple slate>Black Translucent Arkansas>TM Linen/Leather 50/60
I've looked around Jake and can't find but one other reference to this brand and it too had no country of origin. It seemed to hone up like a German razor, the steel wasn't real hard but not Sheffield soft either. It took a real nice edge.
~~~Thaks Rick!, German it probably is...that's what I was thinking...the blade looks too nice to be Pakastani, and same with the Schales...they too look to be of German origin. Here's a few pics of mine-
Rick...notice how the show side of my blade has the same tarnish in the same spot as yours, near the toe, upper 1/3rd part of the blade
you can see the crack in the schale by the pivot pin in this photo...which is why I haven't done anything with this razor yet...been thinking maybe this razor would be the one to interest me into the art of building schales, but it hasn't come to that yet...too much on my plate
but what I've been thinking about doibng is to un-pin this Wade-Butcher blade from this set of horn schales and pin my Piedmont blade to them. FWIW, the W&B blade needs a re-grind...it's in horrible shape
Anyways, the Piedmont does look to be an interesting edge I want to shave with so maybe I'll do the pin work and begin cleaning/honing so I can shave with it soon=
Best,
Jake
Reddick Fla.
Greaves & Sons near wedge, Ozuku Mizu with Iyo followed by Chu Nagura, followed by Nakayama Asagi with Tomo.
Edit: that progression nailed the edge. Wonderful shave.
Nice - Many of the striped ones he and I discussed were 2kish, and harder. I want one of them next.
"HUB" 397, dame, stoddard & company boston mass. made in germany. a 7/8 FULL HOLLOW dressed in transparent ruby red scales with brass furniture. honed on spyderco uf of wids.
Interesting. Well, I went and lapped all sides of mine so that it's ready to use. I'd previously only partially lapped it. Little chunks come off of it, but I think they're from the rough edges and sides, so I lapped every side smooth--even the ends. My only other concern is the large su. I'll have to put a cheap blade on it for initial testing. I still need to send some razors off to other people, so that'll have to be next week at the earliest. Oh, and the slurry stone is lighter than the hone, but both are striped. Here's a picture of them from two years ago:
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