Hello all!
I'm new here on the forum, lurker since a bit after christmas though. I've become interested in learning to shave with a straight due to recieving a vintage razor as a christmas gift by my father. He has never used it himself, but it supposedly belonged to one of his grandfathers, so it has a fair few years under its belt.

Before giving it to me he had it sharpened, but I doubt it was properly honed, given that I think he left it to someone who regularly sharpen knives... I am however getting in contact with the guy, because from the website it looks like there's a bit of razor-tradition in the company, being situated in Eskilstuna and all

I did decide that it would be a damn waste to send it away for a honing without actually knowing if it was honed enough or not, so after "stroping" as best I could on an old leather belt, I gave it a try.
I have to say, it wasn't as disastrous as I half expected! I can't call it a shave, per se, but it did remove hair at least, and the only cut I sustained was due to my own clumsiness >.<


I don't quite dare to blame it on the honing, though, as I might very well have dulled the blade with my highly inexperienced stroping, and of course my non-existant shaving tecnique.

I'm planning on getting a strop from Mr Miller, despite me living in europe, partly because the high praise he recieves here, but mostly as that's the only place so far I have been able to find synthetic strops! Being a vegetarian, I highly value the fact that I can concievably get a non-leather strop. However, my current economic situation sets a firm stop to any such purchases for several month yet, so I'll either make do with the old belt I have, or simply stick to my cartridge razor until then.

Either way, I figured this community would enjoy another razor to look at, aswell as possibly shed some light on just what kind of razor I have here, so here goes:

This is the box, as I got it. As you can see it's looking distinctly worse for the wear, but then it's not been taken care of in far too long...


Once opened, it is a travelling box with the outside being a paddle strop (useless as the leather is dried out and even worn through at some places, but still cool to have)


Looking at the razor itself, as far as I can see, it looks to be in a decent condition. It would have been fun to see it when Dad found it! (probably a lot more of it looking like the tang does)


So now for some details: The only marking I could find to suggest maker, is this:

You can also see that the tang (I think it's called that, right?) is very short.

From what I can make of it, it's a 6/8", square point, and from what I've read, you'd probably call it "smiling", right?. I'm not sure on the grind though, I was almost tempted to say wedge when I first looked at it, but I think there's some hollowing... I'll leave that to you guys though!


So, it would be fun to see what you guys think of it!

/Johan