Thread: Project: "Shave with Eight SE hoe razors in a row"

I will someday. Just a challenge to hone the blades. Bayamontate has given me some instructions.
If I can get another Rolls blade to shave like he did, I will be in. An advantage to this one is, like my Everite, a handle is provided for honing and stropping. Should be pretty easy, although it surely needs lots of cleaning!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I will someday. Just a challenge to hone the blades. Bayamontate has given me some instructions.
If I can get another Rolls blade to shave like he did, I will be in. An advantage to this one is, like my Everite, a handle is provided for honing and stropping. Should be pretty easy, although it surely needs lots of cleaning!

You might be able to use a modern SE blade in it as well. Not sure though. But my L'Essor takes a modern blade just fine for instance.

I have the same razor branded Kronenberg 101 which I absolutely love, she shaves great.

Originally Posted by Bayamontate

I have the same razor branded Kronenberg 101 which I absolutely love, she shaves great.

Looks great! Don't see many of those around actually.

Yes, Nelson. It seems a ringer for mine. Much cleaner and sharper, however!

I came across it by pure accident, its prior owner sold me a vintage coticule and we bungled the Kronenberg in with the deal. These razors have great balance, much better than the Darwin and the Rolls IMO.

I have two styles of the Rapide. One like the one used in the test shave, with no "stops" built in for the blades and the othe which looks just like sharptonn's razor with the limit as to how aggressive the razor shaves. I have only used the with stops design, the other one scares the pants off of me, and you don;t want to shave without pants. The with stops is a great shave, not aggressive at all.

love it what an awesome thread great write ups
but no Rolls LOL??

Yes it is Tom, she cleaned up rather easily. The only issue was a hairline crack on one of the corners of the blade, I was told by someone in the know that some users over tighten the screw and/or dropping the razor can cause these types of cracks. I was able to salvage the blade by rounding off the corner past the crack with a DMT, she works great.