Thread: The French Foreign Laceration

Shaved today with my entry into this club: SRP LE #197

It needed minimal honing to become shave-ready. A standard treatment on my Belgian combo stone and 50 passes on leather did the trick. It has the "pivot pin slightly crooked in the scales" problem, but it's nothing too severe. Lynn's signature on the back of the blade is "truncated", though: "Lynn Ab..." and it fades away where the machine didn't finish etching. I normally wouldn't care too much since they're hand made, but this is a limited razor--it would've been nice to have the full signature on it!

The Shave: virtually zero resistance; the hairs popped loudly, but it went through my barbed wire beard like it almost wasn't there! Probably the most comfortable str8 shave I've ever had! A liberal splash of bay rum barely stung--that stuff never lets me get away with inattention! I think I'm officially a TI convert--expect to see many more French razors in my rotation as soon as I get the funds!

My LeGrelot Special Coiffeur No. 52.....not a TI but since TI has been distributing the remaining LeGrelot blades since they closed their doors.....here it is! A great shaver, purchased from English....