Show off your Straights!

BadDad I love the scales on that Wostenholm, great colors and they look grippy. Very nice!

BadDad I love the scales on that Wostenholm, great colors and they look grippy. Very nice!

Thanks! That was my first effort at making micarta...I haven't really done a lot with micarta since, but that set came out decent...

Something new, something blue

Iberia Doble Temple #12 Straight Razor

Something new, something blue

OH BOY

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Here's a small offering of some
Of my Straight babies:

My Puma 90 hollow ground round tip (Germany)


My Alfred Williams of Sheffield 13/16 wedge,  w/barbers notch and custom shockwood scales (England)


My newest acquisition: Gary Stewart /Tampa Shaving Co. 1/4 hollow, high carbon Damascus square tip (United States)

Here's a small offering of some
Of my Straight babies:

Some very nice blades my friend!

I picked up this Frederick Reynolds 5/8 smiling wedge a few weeks ago from an estate sale. The scales were originally buffalo(presumably) horn, but they were long-ago broken and repaired with some form of adhesive and string. So I went ahead and honed it up, setting a bevel on a JNS Mutukusuyama 1k, and finishing it off with a Belgian coticule. Then I went ahead and cut and shaped these new scales from an acrylic blank, and VOILA!! A newly clothed, Frederick Reynolds 5/8 stub tail smiling wedge!



You may see that there is a particularly large area of hone wear near the toe. Someone exaggerated the smile by focusing on the toe too much in it's history, but I was able to hone it nicely using a couple layers of electrical tape. Test shave this evening will tell the truth...

Good job on the new scales, Chris. The razor looks just fine.

This was a rescue from my working vacation in New England. A seven day set, ALMOST. Sunday will be a day of rest due to Sunday's razor is missing. A set from Friedmann & Lauterjung "Electric" straights. They are in as found condition, no cracks, splits or rust with modest grim. I passed on them several times due to the missing razor but the seller made me a deal I could not say no to.