Thread: # 14

@ armiller17: that is a very nice Dorko # 14 with some hefty scales as well!

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Guess it's very special to have such a beautiful # 14 with family history to shave with?

Regards, Jazor.

Originally Posted by Jazor

@ armiller17: that is a very nice Dorko # 14 with some hefty scales as well!

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Guess it's very special to have such a beautiful # 14 with family history to shave with?

Regards, Jazor.

Yep, I'm very pleased to have such an old family connection to it. Since it missed two generations of use I am excited to be able to put it back into a rotation. I look forward to a long history of shaving with it myself!

Fantastic blade,enjoy.Is still a conundrum to me as to just what #12-#13-#14 means,is not blade size,am thinking maybe wgt.Nobody seems to know

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Fantastic blade,enjoy.Is still a conundrum to me as to just what #12-#13-#14 means,is not blade size,am thinking maybe wgt.Nobody seems to know

Well, in most cases it seems to be somewhat more linked to size than weight.
The difference in width on a DT, Sub Cero, MT or Novodur /All fillies) in #14's are minute.
The weight is far from that, the DT is little more than half the width of a EPBD or Sub-cero over the spine.
In other words, the weight seems to vary much much more than the width on Filarmonica's at least.
I have a few others as well, and the same seems to be the case there.

Tend to agree,but people here have also said they have #14s that are orig 5/8 razors.Granted all my 14s are huge.some over 8/8.all over 7/8.
The only visual I can see on all 14s is the oversize shanks regardless of blade size,still find it confusing.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Tend to agree,but people here have also said they have #14s that are orig 5/8 razors.Granted all my 14s are huge.some over 8/8.all over 7/8.
The only visual I can see on all 14s is the oversize shanks regardless of blade size,still find it confusing.

Yeah, I would sure like to know the origin of the use of those numbers, and also find something more than just the internet buzz about the whole German blank theories that tend to float around
I personally find them very hard to believe, seeing as there are so many and big differences in the various makers #14's.

Than we have the Japanese numbering system what do it all mean?

Great postings guys: it cracked me up that perhaps we are trying to make sense of something that is truly not logically related apart from "coincidental overlaps"?

This is one of the reasons why I started this topic: to see if we could find the so called communal thing that binds all #14's together.

One of the other reasons is just to make the biggest possible collection of world wide #14 pictures so all enthusiasts can enjoy them.

The more beautiful #14's I see posted

from totally different brands,

from totally different countries of origin,

with totally different measurements,

etc,

the more I start to get convinced that apart from the #14 branding they are not related.

Other views / inputs and pictures of course very welcome.

Kindest regards, Jazor.

Thanks for starting the thread Jazor,has become an obsession with me will have some new additions later in the week.
Is one common denomenator I find interesting.Was eluded to early in the thread that there may be swedish marked 14s,none have surfaced yet tho.
Only two countrys seem to have used the 14 designation (whatever it means) Germany and spain which seem to have been closley linked at one time,I do have a Solingen Palmera made by Ferd.Herberz & Cie.
The search continues

@ Pixelfed: that's an interesting observation regarding countries of heritage. It made me look around on other fora where I'm running a # 14 topic and I found an exception.

In one of the other fora someone posted a "Nichiri King Pelican 13/16 quarter hollow #14" which apparently comes from Tokyo.

Since it's not my picture, I can't just post it here: will ask permission to share it here to poster in question.

That King Pelican not only breaks the mold of "Germany or Spain", it also breaks the mold in it's looks and size.

Regards, Jazor.