Thread: My Very First Straight Razor-Show Us Your First Straight

This is the very first straight razor I ever owned. I won it on eBay & I didn't know what to look for at the time other than the fact that Wade & Butcher's were a good straight razor to have. I'll never get rid of it, it's a nice straight. I love the W&B bow razors. It has slight hone wear but not bad at all for it's age. I don't know if that is the original box for this razor since it isn't the "Famous Keen Shaving BOW Razor". It does have a date on it, Christmas 1892 but the razor itself is pre 1891. If you don't have your first straight anymore then show us the one you've had the longest!

Wade Wingfield and Rowbotham, ward bros federal

An Australian, from the 1850's. picked it up from a swap meet.

my first razor was a DOVO SS , I think I used it the day I got it , bought a BOKER SS the next day and like it better so the DOVO sat for a while until it was used again ..lol



I think this is one ive had the longest .. cant remember for sure but its either this one or the Spanish point Greaves I have in another thread

PACKWOOD

Mine was a vintage Shapleigh. Have honed and gifted it to a friend later on.

My first was a Dovo 5/8 Best Quality, learned on that one and a few others as I found my way.

But what I consider to be my first real straight, that still to this day is my favourite razor, and started my on-going admiration for all things Sheffield, was this Wade and Butcher, 9/8, Celebrated Hollow Ground Razor,For Barbers Use, spike point in black horn. It is always a treat to use this blade and it delivers everytime.

It completes me.

My first this go around, 30 years ago with no internet I tryed with a POS like a Gold Dollar and I thought I could hone it ,, so when I came back around, I bought this Dovo Best from SRD , broke the scales , and a very nice guy( Bill, Pixelfixed, ya he can be nice Lol) offered to fix it.

Well now I still have it, I don't do round points any more , and I have fallen into the Custom razor world, but I have the only Ivory Scaled Dovo best Quality on Mother Earth! So I keep it and take it out every now and , because with a Gssixgun edge , it's still a great shaver! Plus I had to have one of Bills brushes, man that's another hole I've slipped into, I might have more than most people of his and Walleyemans brushes. The AD,s are something else. Tc

the frameback on the left is the razor I have had the longest, though not my first, that was a broeker bros (? Spelling) in bone that I bought from os, that's now been passed on. Technically the frameback isn't mine anymore as i swapped it with a friend who still has to give me their mailing address (they moved overseas)

Hey phrank - do you recognise the other two?

Originally Posted by ferroburak

Mine was a vintage Shapleigh. Have honed and gifted it to a friend later on.

Shapleigh's are good razors. They were were/are very popular straights. Since you don't have it anymore, show us the one you've had the longest.

My first, circa 1981 (?) from a mall retail Hoffritz store. Used for 6 months then stored until I found SRP in 2013 and had it honed by Lynn after I bought my Aust 5/8 from SRD, so I had a reference! So my RAD was dormant for more than 30 years! Not any more