What straight did you use today? Now with PICTURES
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Wester Brothers Fraternity 33
The Silent Killer
It doesn't make a sound when stropping, it hardly makes a sound when shaving - but it is "retiring" those stubbles so effectively that it is almost scaring
It doesn't make a sound when stropping, it hardly makes a sound when shaving - but it is "retiring" those stubbles so effectively that it is almost scaring
6/8 Thiers-Issard "Le Grelot" with Buckeye Burl Scales
Some very nice Swedish steel. Gave me a BBS and a big smile 
That is a nice blade!
Some very nice Swedish steel. Gave me a BBS and a big smile
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Love that Swedish Steel!
Slash McCoy
I freehand dog rockets
Actually, this was yesterday's shave. Modified Gold Dollar #200. I ground off the shoulder and stabilizer with a sanding drum bit in a dremel knockoff, ground in a barber notch, and polished with 1u diamond on a felt wheel attachment. Honing was on 40u, 12u, 5u, 3u, 1u, and .3u 3M lapping film on a marble tile. Stropped on a new Big Daddy hanging strop from www.starshaving.com . Brush was a Chinese made black badger by Frank Shaving, resold by Star Shaving Supply. Soap was VDH. AS was Florida Water. Very pleasant shave, and very nice for a single pass shave.
Dremel + Gold Dollar - (stabilizers and shoulders) = darn fine razor. If I re-scale, I will do some work on the tang, too. I am thinking about doing myself a 7 day set.
Dremel + Gold Dollar - (stabilizers and shoulders) = darn fine razor. If I re-scale, I will do some work on the tang, too. I am thinking about doing myself a 7 day set.
Palmera 14
Slash McCoy
I freehand dog rockets
I like them! And at $7 per, they are cheap enough for me to play around with and hopefully put together a 7 day set one of these days. The #66, which is actually the cheapest, is the easiest to modify. All these razors, once the stabilizers and shoulders have been tamed, make good, face-friendly shavers unless you get one with spine symmetry issues. Quality control at the factory seems to consist of examining the piece to make sure it looks like a picture of what a razor ought to look like. The steel, however, is decent. I think of them as cheap semi-finished "blanks" to mess around with. See my post a page or two back in this thread for a pic of one of my GDs, a #200. I did that with a dremel in about an hour and a half. Waiting on hardware and attitude before rescaling a few of them and overhauling the tangs.
Wade & Butcher restore 6/8
Shaves great just need to dial it in some more.
Will have better pics tomorrow not enough light!
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Shaves great just need to dial it in some more.
Will have better pics tomorrow not enough light!
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If you were to ask me which is the best shaving razor I own, I keep coming back to this one.
King Pelican #32.
King Pelican #32.
