Thread: LeCoultre questions

Originally Posted by OldTraf

Thanks, reason I asked here was the original discussion occurred here. Guess I will have to cut some brass and see if they fit. I didn't want to try some LeCoultre screws in the small dies I have.

No problem at all. I have done similar & it was moved. No big deal though.
Do you need a screw for a Lecoultre razor?

Its not a LeCoultre. I don't have it at hand but its one of the French copies. The screw is damaged but the threads in the razor are still good. It needs a lot of work to get shave ready. I want to try my hand a cutting a screw that will work. Thanks for the offer.

Oh, okay. I have another make so I took the screw out of it & although pillar looking, the pitch was different from the Lecoultre so no telling what threads are in it. I have another 2 day set but a different maker, Veritable Vincent & it has a screw around a .60mm pitch & 2.8mm diameter. I guess if you could get your hands on some metric screws & they them carefully so you don't damage the threads on the razor. If you find one that fits, cut the head off 7 make a small slot in it for the screwdriver. That is how all of these are, with no heads on them. Kinda like a long set screw.

Break off a round toothpick and use it to check the pitch and diameter of the threaded hole. Just twist it into the hole and it will leave marks where the thread is at the root diameter. It may also tell you the outside diameter of the thread.
~Richard

Just had another shave with the LeCoultre, after a few trips to the carborundum strop, horsehide strop, linen and latigo strop and some more on the short paddle plain leather, it did a very good job on half the face WTG and ATG. Had just finished a Genco about 4/8 for my grandson. I had given him a 6/8 M. Jung for his Bar Mitzvah, but it is too large for him now. It still needs more time on the strops, but it gave an unbloody shave WTG and ATG. Not as close as the LeCoultre but not rough on the face.

The round toothpick sounds good, but right now I have only flats and a 750 count box.

Had a shave yesterday with the Genco. After five rounds on the strops, as above, it is sharper than my LeCoultre. It gave a near BBS, but although I eased the Spike point it was rough one the left side of my Adam's apple. That is why I prefer the shape of the LeCoultre, any of the old stubbies, and a French head. Pictures once I set up for them and that will close the thread.

I thought I had replied to this the other day............
That's nice you have your grandson shaving with a straight also, keeping up this old tradition in the family.
Good luck with the Lecoultre & if you need a slew for it sometime, try Richard's advice about the toothpick. A couple weeks ago, a guy had a lot of blades & frames for some French razors w/o scales. There were a couple Lecoultre's in the bunch of about 15-16 in the lot. I didn't bother to bid on them but they sold for $102 with one bid on them.
Here I have a Fontenille 134 & when I got it, it also had a T.I. removable blade in it. I didn't know T.I. made a razor like that unless they made replacement blades for some razor's back then.