Thread: Striped Madness!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

This set is indirectly the fault of one of our fine brush-turners, Andrew(HarryWally).
It's all HIS fault as he made me the coolest striped shaving brush which looked choice with my striped Genco razor!
After having gathered-up every variation of striped Genco and Geneva I could find over a decade of looking, I wondered why I would make a 7 day set of them? Good, but about all the same to me.
So I made one up with a 13/16 Satinedge blade; http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...-duckling.html

It snowballed from there. My criteria was thin Solingen-made, 13/16, great condition, and all square-points from different makers/suppliers. I truly think these blades span 50 years or more.

Who knows?

The tangs, spines, noses would all be blued with silver in the tang stamps. All would be pinned with nickel-silver rod and nickel-silver collars from AJkenne

I found enough around here to make it happen with things in broken scales, not in original scales or in boring black clothes.
This set was built and shared in pictures in the workshop thread 'What are you working on?' beginning with post 2125 or thereabouts. Lots of members saw it down there as it unfolded, so I though I might post it here to give the 'sane' members a look. If you are a glutton for punishment, you could go look and follow along!
All have been honed and I have shaved with each. Super shaving thin Solingen blades, all.
I should warn you, don't look at this stuff too long. Makes One crosseyed!

So here we go.....The box is an 'arts and crafts' thing I found on Ebay. Strips of bone and horn. Somebody worked pretty hard on it! I did the interior and hinges/latch with stainless pins covered with heat shrink to locate each razor.



The interior;



First 3 razors from the top. Koch & Shafer 'Kama', a nice one sold by Bigelow and Dowse of Boston, and a sweet blade from T. Hessenbruch of Philadelphia.



Next 2 down are a fine Henckels 50 followed by an 'Old English' from T.H. Steinbaur of New York



Last 2 are a nice, seldom-seen Weck followed by the original, 'Daffy Duck', a Satinedge.



It was a fun project. Nice to take things flung to the wind and put them all together in such an....er..'unusual' way!



Thanks for looking! 'The End'

That is some nice work and great a concept. Enjoy them.