🌸🌸🌸 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 Japanese Steel Week 2025 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🌸🌸🌸

[sanookd]

San Kan 1200 13/16 Full Hollow
Grooming Dept Unscented Preshave
Geo.F.Trumper Sandalwood Shave Cream
Lucky Tiger Face Tonic
Clubman Aftershave Lotion
Boellis Panama 1924 Balm
Kent BK8 Silvertip Brush

 

[2bit_collie]

Iwasaki kamisori

 

[rhgg2]

Another sculpture razor, this one bearing the stamp of Hitachi Yasuki steel. Interestingly, this one is a 7/16 kamisori grind, and it's a "real" one with the Yasuki steel forge-welded to soft steel on the omote side. I'm using it two handed and it gives a nice shave if I remember to keep the angle low!

 

[Koop]

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Another sculpture razor, this one bearing the stamp of Hitachi Yasuki steel. Interestingly, this one is a 7/16 kamisori grind, and it's a "real" one with the Yasuki steel forge-welded to soft steel on the omote side. I'm using it two handed and it gives a nice shave if I remember to keep the angle low!

That would be traditional ni-mai (two sheet or layer) construction - common on traditional Japanese single bevel knives.

 

[silverlifter]

I've been fortunate to acquire some nice Japanese razors, but this one is the cream of the crop. Yasuki steel, beautfiful to the eye and in the hand. Apparently, Shiozawa-san worked with Iwasaki, which given the quality of this razor does not surprise me. A fitting way to end JSW for me!

050425

• silverlifter
• Friday at 8:48 PM

Shiozawa Tadaaki Focus 13/16 Hollow - Zenith Unbleached Boar - Eufros Gea - Myrsol Agua de Limón...

 

[Mr Bedlington]

Iwasaki 50
Kanayama 95000
Muhle Fibre Silvertip XL
Santa Maria Novella Crema da Barba
Santa Maria Tabacco Toscana Aftershave
Santa Maria Novella Tabacco Toscana Eau de Cologne​

 

[TSENG]

SOTD
Tokyo（東京） Razor
Frameback 7/8"
Best Swedish Steel.
This time honing uses Taiwan Stone(3)(Finishing Stone)+Mejiro Nagura .
OMEGA Art. 10098, 27mm Boar Brush,
Horween Shell Cordovan Strops.
Shave smooth and comfortable today.

 

[Steve56]

KikuOkan up for Frameback Friday. Forgot to hit the ‘post’ button yesterday!

 

[Darth Scandalous]

Tanifuji Favorit 3000

 

[Zerro]

Finishing Japanese Steel Week with a fan favorite - certainly a favorite of mine, too.

栄光 Eikō

 

[Steve56]

Coral up for the Sturday shave.

 

[RADRonin48]

Tanifuji Spalding

 

[Toro Blanco]

Great blade's gentlemen! My hat's off to those pics as well. You guys have very good tastes. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Frank Shaves]

Starlet 3057, Simpson K4 Manchurian Badger, Stirling Unscented with Beeswax, and RazoRock Santa Maria del Fiore.

More Yasuki steel. It really doesn't get any better than this.

 

[Frank Shaves]

The quality of Japanese razors from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s is pretty amazing. I guess the Japanese were also known for optical and photographic equipment like Nikon during this period. Japanese cars did not become popular in the US until after the 1973 oil embargo.

 

[rhgg2]

The quality of Japanese razors from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s is pretty amazing. I guess the Japanese were also known for optical and photographic equipment like Nikon during this period. Japanese cars did not become popular in the US until after the 1973 oil embargo.

Canon could sell you a camera AND a razor!

 

[sanookd]

Osger Extra Hollow 13/16
Grooming Dept Unscented Preshave
Castle Forbes Lavender Shave Soap
Lucky Tiger Face Tonic
Boellis Panama 1924 Aftershave
Boellis Panama 1924 Balm
Thater 28 mm Silvertip Brush

 

[Wid]

Unknown Kamisori
Homemade Soap
Excelsior Boar
Cajun Blade Skin Food

 

[rhgg2]

Finishing the week on a high with the King Pelican 14. This has been in my to-hone pile for a while as it had a large pit to clear, but I'm glad I put the time in as it is a killer shaver. I think it's had a regrind, probably to remove further pitting, but it's still definitely a quarter hollow and a very smooth one at that. The pearlescent scales are very nice!

 

[StGReeK]