Thread: The Filarmonica

Originally Posted by mainaman

How can you tell?
I have seen plenty of Fillis with those scales NOS, never rescaled.

Cross how is the honewear on your razor? Factory honing usually leaved very minimal spinewear, and sometimes no honing was done at all.

Very minimal honewear, same as you'd get on a new razor that has been vendor-sharpened. I have a Dovo from SRD, which came the same.

Originally Posted by Martin103

Well according to the trademark office the first registration for "Doble temple" was in 1962.
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Now I'm really confused... does this unambiguously mean that my blade is post 1962?

Originally Posted by ErreHache

Besides, if you check the listing photos in the bay, you'll see a clearly repinned pivot.

Listing for this very razor? pins are hardly visible there. I can post a snap of the actual pin heads tomorrow.

So excited to get my new Fillies! Red is mint. White is restored. Both have mineral oil on them in photos. Instantly two of my favorites in my collection.

Originally Posted by welshwarrior

Man that looks kewl. I am a newbie, but there is just something mesmerizing about some razors. I can just gaze at them all day.

Don't bother to see a doctor or a specialist for your affliction, its incurable. SRP is the place to be because we all suffer the same.

Originally Posted by Pikadon

So excited to get my new Fillies! Red is mint. White is restored. Both have mineral oil on them in photos. Instantly two of my favorites in my collection.

That red Filly looks awesome, great find, that's going to give you one stunning shave believe me.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

That red Filly looks awesome, great find, that's going to give you one stunning shave believe me.

I've never had the pleasure of using a Filarmonica before now. Tomorrow it will happen. Really excited. This is the closest I've come to what XMas used to feel like when I was a kid.
This thing is a beast. And heavy.

Originally Posted by mainaman

PM me the link please, I do not follow ebay.

I guess I was terribly unpolite about that. I'm sorry, never received a post notification until today.
Sadly, lost the link weeks ago.

I'm sure the blade is pre 1950, and scales aren't.
I think, despite personal opinions (this doesn't want to sound unpolite, english isn't my mother language), NOS means new and complete, but stored for years.
In this case, we've got an old blade with newer scales. Maybe both new, and old, and stored for years, but not NOS due to being pieces from two diferent razors.

At last, as said, blade is what do the work.

About dating: 1962 is the date of registering in the USA, not in Spain. There had been Doble Temple Fillies at least since 30's

Hope that helps.

This showed up in the mail yesterday, I just got a good edge on her and I'm pretty excited about shaving tomorrow morning

Well I Am so excited (for lack of a better word) in my most recent purchase. I did get the seller to lower their price. Dam you Celtic crusader for your sexy filarmonica pictures that have awoken this list in me. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...d=331087478676