Thread: Most common Razors in Oz

No, he's right. Bengalls are useless. Don't buy them. (I wonder if I could drive the price down?)

If I had the money, I would be driving them back up again!


Mick

I regularly rotate the following

Gotta 120 6/8 -never been used before I got it. I think it was for the German rather than the English market.
Blue Wonder 6/8 or 5/8?
Cadman Bengall 5/8
Dovo Ebenholz 6/8
Shumate 9/16... purchaced from Onimaru -Thanks Oz

I also have a few more awaiting attention
Bengall 4/8
Bengall 7/8 or 8/8?
Blue Wonder

Gotta 120
Dovo 4/8 samtschnitt
Bismark 5/8 Hamburg ring
and more that I cant remember atm.

all except the Dovo's and the shumate are vintage 2nd hand from within Aust.

Nice collection there. Thanks for the input. Hey, got any pics of the blue wonder, I'm just curious to see another one?
Grant

My Barber has a collection of razors, mostly old ones given to him by customers who have found grandad's razor in the back of a drawer.

Bengalls are the most common, with Dorko and Flic making up the rest.

He also says that the steel in the ivory handled ones is better than the bakelite handled ones and that they hold their edge longer.

Originally Posted by Pauly

He also says that the steel in the ivory handled ones is better than the bakelite handled ones and that they hold their edge longer.

Weeellll, that's a sweeping statement
Ask anyone who owns a bakelite handled Bengall

Originally Posted by Pauly

He also says that the steel in the ivory handled ones is better than the bakelite handled ones and that they hold their edge longer.

Another barber who doesn't know shite about razors. Imagine, the scale materials could affect the properties of the edge.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Weeellll, that's a sweeping statement
Ask anyone who owns a bakelite handled Bengall

I was too polite to disagree. And since he has an extensive collection of ivory and bakelite handled Bengalls I really didn't think I had the experience to disagree.

Although it does make some sense that you'd put your best quality steel into your expensive high quality handles and your cheap steel into your cheap plastic handles.

I would say you put the higher price on the Ivory and the same steel in both Ivory and Bakelight. Personally the edge that was on my scabby old wood handled Bengall, when I got it back from Os could have nipped off ma head, and I wouldn't have known it till I heard the thunk .


Mick

Originally Posted by Pauly

Although it does make some sense that you'd put your best quality steel into your expensive high quality handles and your cheap steel into your cheap plastic handles.

He may well be right about the durability of the edges if they had some sort of selection process picking out those with the best heat treat but I still think the steel is all the same & any over flow after the ivories were all scaled up would have gone straight into plastic scales & shipped out for sale. Cadmans were a prolific maker & they wouldn't have left blades lying around waiting for the next shipment of ivory. It's interesting to go thru some of the old newspaper ads & see that the Bengall was always touted as a superb & durable edge with no pulling.