Hi from Sundsvall, Sweden
Soo I have been browsing this forum for about 2 weeks and made a few posts. Im pretty new to wetshaving, got my first safetyrazor almost 2 years ago but never grew found of it. It was way to aggressiv for a beginner. Soo about 3 months ago I found a new safety razor to a great price on an auction site. It was a Edwin Jagger DE89 knurled. And this was a whole new page comming to wetshaving. Pretty soon I startet searching for more vintage razor, and atm I have about 10 diffrent types of safety razors. But its just a few I really use.
Joining a FB page for wetshavers in sweden made me take the step towards straight razors, and I knew my dad had gotten a few from my mothers granddad. They had been in a plastic bag since 1975. Soo I sent four of them to a proffesional honer. Couldt wait the time to get em back soo bought a shave ready Japanese straight razor. The first straight razor shave was about 1 month ago. August 15 if im not misstaken. Since then I have shaved like 10 times with the straight razors that I have thats shave ready.
Atm im shaving with
1 Bengall with turtle imitation scales
1 Bengall with wood scales
1 Eskilstuna Engström frameback, Ivory scales
1 Eskilstuna Söderen&Co frameback, plastic scales
1 Cape1000 Japanese with plastic scales.
1 Thiers Issard Spartacus (the only not vintage razor in my collection)
The favourite is the Engström frameback. Im not sure why but I can really get that good angel. And Im acctually concidering getting one more!
It dosnt stop here. I have a ton of other straight razors to. Some that I should just send out for honing, and some thats little bigger restauration. The restauration part is something I will try to do more. And something that Im gonna ask about and probalby also post the results when done.
Atm I live in a pretty small apartment, soo I need small equipment that can easely be put away.
If there is anything I will ask its probalby about restauration.
Thanks for reading and thanks for all the feedback and information I have gotten from here so far.
/Svisson