Thought I would just say hello from my home in the UK, My name is Patrick and I live with my partner Nicola in a rented house in Cornwall which we moved into this January (during the worst weather Cornwall has seen for about 20 years!).

When I was at university about 10 years ago (I was a mature student) my partner at the time was a cute French girl named Nathalie, it was she who bought me my straight razor as a birthday present. I tried using it for a few months and even managed a half decent shave but I did not know anything about straight razor shaving apart from what I had seen on the old cowboy films

Anyway enough about me it's time I told you about my razor

I am the proud owner of a Horstator Solinger (I guess you would call it a sofisticated) Wertarbeit 1827, I have absolutely no idea where Nathalie bought the razor or how much she paid for it but I personally believe it's priceless



I need to give it a good clean as there are some marks appearing at the hinge where I stupidly put it away wet and forgot about it for a year

I hope it stands up to your expectations and I look forward to learning the correct way to hone, strop and shave with it soon oh and the small travel strop seen in the picture used to be Nathalie's grandfathers which I rescued from their home in France... thinking back now I wish I'd also rescued his straight razor but it looked like a rusty nail and I didn't think about restoring it