Thread: Striped Madness!

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'

All I want to know is how many Zebra's had to die to make your 7 day set ????

It's a dazzling set. I might have to start calling you Stryper, though.

OH! Here is the brush which started it all. And yes! I still have a striped Genco!

As I scrolled down through the pictures, I found myself getting dizzy, but that is some great work on a great concept that only a sick mind could conceive.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

All I want to know is how many Zebra's had to die to make your 7 day set ????

I can assure you that NO zebras were harmed in the making of this set.
However, I have not actually shown this to any of the zebras I know....For obvious reasons!

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

It's a dazzling set. I might have to start calling you Stryper, though.

Thanks! I only hope I am 'striped-out' finally!

Originally Posted by Haroldg48

As I scrolled down through the pictures, I found myself getting dizzy, but that is some great work on a great concept that only a sick mind could conceive.

I appreciate that my friend! Coming from YOU, that means........Just what DOES that mean, Harold?

Hehe, that's what I thought Harold, I was expecting the pop up dizzying spiral, but no.

Great Looking Brush handle and knot Harry.

Ok Sharpton, are you hiding a large stock of NOS razor strops? That one looks new. I want one.

Originally Posted by FAL

Ok Sharpton, are you hiding a large stock of NOS razor strops? That one looks new. I want one.

Ah, Yes! A NOS 'Fine Stars' from Kanoyama, back in the day.

Geez - I got dizzy looking at those and threw up all over the floor....thank Gawd I can blame the cat!!!

Those are smokin' Tom, very, very nice.....