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The Association of Lather Catchers: TALC
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Welcome to the forum! What a beautiful razor! Thanks for sharing your story. Will you be shaving with it?
Thank you so much for the welcome! I really wanted to join the club, but so far I have only admired your jewels.
My intention is to try shaving, the blades seem to already have an excellent edge.
However, I managed to find a STAR RAZOR STROPPING MACHINE in excellent condition at a favorable price (I attach a photo of the ad), once it arrives I will give the blades a final sharpening and do a test shave.
I take this opportunity to ask a couple of questions to the more experienced members of the club:
1. I have noticed in several photos blades marked with the 3 stars, mine are without them: is it because they are not original? Or were they a prerogative of later models perhaps?
2. As seen, the box is marked The GEM: it follows that it is not the original box, correct?
Box looks good to me. Don't worry about the blades. One day they mark them the next day they don't. They came with the razor and fit your good to go.
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Thank you for your answers!
Anyway, I found the answer to my question about the box: in this advertisement from 1895 (found here: From Perret to Kampfe: Origins of the Safety Razor - http://www.shaveworld.org/images/PerrettKampfe-rev2.html) the razor is sold in a box identical to mine, branded The Gem!
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds.
@VittorioRoccabruna
I believe your razor is a 1890 Kampfe Bros Star based on the info from Waits' Compendium.
The box seems to be from an early Gem set. Sorry, I have no information on the blades.
I believe your razor is a 1890 Kampfe Bros Star based on the info from Waits' Compendium.
The box seems to be from an early Gem set. Sorry, I have no information on the blades.
Hi @Whiterook, maybe you didn't read my post before yours. I found an ad for the 1895 Star showing it being sold in a box marked The Gem, like mine .
I also came to the same conclusion about the HR-5B model, based on the info on the site razors.page - Main - https://razors.page
I stand corrected!
Hi all!
This morning I finally tried the Kampfe Star razor HR-5B from 1890 that I recently purchased.
I must admit that I was a bit hesitant to try this razor.
As is my habit, I first scoured the web looking for as much information as possible on its use.
Then I sharpened it on a strop with its stropping machine of the time.
Finally, after filling the basin with hot water, I did a nice face lathering with the brush that I had made by a craftsman based on a 19th century brush and the newly arrived Moon Soap Old School (just wow!).
The razor's handling is surprising, the right shaving angle is spontaneous and immediate.
The razor glided on my skin delicately and deeply, collecting lather, and after the first pass I could already say I was satisfied.
In search of the BBS, I lathered up and went against the grain: zero stress, zero snags, zero red spots!
One of the most pleasant shaves I've ever experienced, so much so that in the end the splash with bayrum was almost like doing it with fresh water.
I started with some fear, and finished with ease. What a razor!
This morning I finally tried the Kampfe Star razor HR-5B from 1890 that I recently purchased.
I must admit that I was a bit hesitant to try this razor.
As is my habit, I first scoured the web looking for as much information as possible on its use.
Then I sharpened it on a strop with its stropping machine of the time.
Finally, after filling the basin with hot water, I did a nice face lathering with the brush that I had made by a craftsman based on a 19th century brush and the newly arrived Moon Soap Old School (just wow!).
The razor's handling is surprising, the right shaving angle is spontaneous and immediate.
The razor glided on my skin delicately and deeply, collecting lather, and after the first pass I could already say I was satisfied.
In search of the BBS, I lathered up and went against the grain: zero stress, zero snags, zero red spots!
One of the most pleasant shaves I've ever experienced, so much so that in the end the splash with bayrum was almost like doing it with fresh water.
I started with some fear, and finished with ease. What a razor!
So cool! Love the whole set up. Where did you get that brush? I too enjoy things from the past. How did the strop tool work out?
Razor: Torrey No. 1 Lather Catcher
Blade: Pal Carbon Steel
Lather: Truefitt and Hill Grafton
Brush: Paladin Beehive
Post: Thayers Facial Tonic,
Truefitt & Hill Grafton Balm
Imperial Leather talc
The adapter made for me by Greg @GAW9576 works well. This was a great shave. The razor patent date is 1901 for those interested.
Thank you!
I found a guy here who works with wood and has a passion for wet shaving, he told me that by providing him with the design of an old brush he would be able to recreate it.
I found on Pinterest several pages of catalogs from the late 1800s/early 1900s, and chose the brush that I liked the most.
The result is what you see in the photo, an olive handle and synthetic badger-like bristles. It is not exactly the same but it is still beautiful and does its job well, but thanks to its length it is perfectly suited to the mug that I have. I imagine that the brushes of the time were longer than the recent ones for this very reason.
The machine strop does its job, although I think I was lucky that the blades were already beautifully sharp.
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