Thread: The Orphanage

This is a club/thread for those razors that you end up with that either have no name at all, or a name that you never heard of and can't find any information about. Or even if you find out a little, it's not very revealing. These are the razors that everyone forgot about. Maybe in 1924 they were well known in some town or region, but the companies went under, the razors stayed in drawers, ended up in estates or antique stores, until YOU came along and spotted…potential.

Under your careful, loving tutelage, maybe your touch on the sandpaper or buffing wheel, your care with the hones and strop…and your no-name razor, devoid of fame, lacking pedigree or papers, becomes a first-class shaver. Maybe your no-name absolutely shames your Dubl Duck Goldedge, or bashes your Boker, or out-whacks your whackers, without butchering you the way your Wade and Butcher does…

…your razor might be unknown, or little known, or little respected, unsung, ignored, forgotten…but you know it's a star!

This, friends, is your club.

Let's see those no-name razors, those generic Solingens, those shiftless Sheffields, those vagrants and lost souls of the straight razor world.

Who knows, maybe a new lease on life is all some of these razors need!