Thread: Clan of the Dancing Twins

My first Friodur, and my first razor with a file-worked spine. Scales are walnut, with hex-screw pins. Love the way this thing shaves.

My entry will be a very old number 12 with beautiful horn scales.
This is how it arrived today. The pins are a bit rough.
Near wedge, broad back, lovely!



and a nice diamond back on a model number 852

Model 401 in perfect 13/16! size.

Now this is interesting. On page 8 FatBoySlim has a Henckels 80 and I saw that and about flipped. I just bought this razor for a resto project. It's the same blade as the Henckels but as near as we can figure it has Italian markings on it "M. Brumana" over "Gallarate". Gallarate is a city in northern Italy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallarate.M. Brumana and family are from the city of Gallarate. The razor is on it's way to me now. I wonder if Henckels made it or vice versa?????
Check this out:

I think that was general trend in the blades, some kind of "fashion". Take a look

How about that. I did a search and found a relative of Martino Brumana so I emailed and asked a little about the family history and if he was in this business of razor manufacturing. I have found he lived around the mid to late 1800's.
This is one of the things that makes this hobby so interesting:-) Thanks for the pics! Oh yes I saw the blade sizes on yours. The one I have on the way is 7/8th inches.

My unspectular twins

# 1

5,5/8" Carbon Steel blade, round point, quarter hollow. It took me three hours to hone this razor. I bought it as new and unused, so it was in pretty good condition. According to the vendor, I got it from, it was made in the 1920s.



Nice and heavy razor, but I sold it. Although it got sharp as hell, I could not get used to the stiff blade. Full hollow blades just work better for me.

#2

A simple Friodur, that came in a plastic box. It belonged to a barber from Austria, so it came in good condition.




Although made of stainless steel, this was the easiest to hone razor I have ever had. One of my favourites and up to date, my only stainless blade.

I only have one razor:

My #50 in Tigerwood scales built by my brother(sbrouwers), love it!