Thread: # 14

Believe the pelican was mentioned early in this thread,Missed it.

King pelican 14 is in my picture of s collection of 14s.

Excellent: that solves the King Pelican #14 issue.

Still interesting to see other #14's that were made outside the usual #14 regions such as Germany and Spain.

Here I'm not counting the Hoppe's as they are from Argentina I believe since one Henckels master razor maker emigrated there from Solingen.

Regards, Jazor.

So, here is one more King Pelican #14

@ KING2011: thanks for helping out with the requested posting of your KingPelican. What's the size and what background info can you share with us?

Regards, Jazor.

Couple new additions,JMP Imperial in Ivory,Ldo.Sommer&co. Merscheid-Solingen

Originally Posted by Jazor

@ KING2011: thanks for helping out with the requested posting of your KingPelican. What's the size and what background info can you share with us?

Regards, Jazor.

So, the size is 13/16 with qurter hollow grind.
I bought it from a member life2short1971 few months ago in a Mint condition.
As for shaving matter - I can freely say that this razor is in top 3 from all of my razors. Very easy to hone and provides very smooth and very close shavings.

@ pixelfed: those are nice 14's! Thanks for sharing the picts with us.

@ KING2011: thanks for the update. It's the first Japanese 14 I've come across.

Kindest regards, Jazor.

Originally Posted by globaldev

here are just a few... i haven't updated the picture yet..

Spanish (Palmera, Fili, JMP, Imperial, etc) , German (Boker, Henckel), Japanese (King Pelican). just found one with no branding except Made in Spain tag and hoping to have an American soon.

I plan to modify some of the smaller to shorten the blade a bit.

@Bill(pixelfixed) and @jazor I went back and found this picture from earlier in the thread that @globaldev posted, all of the 14's have a similar profile except for the pelican. The pelican varies from the others most in its over all length, if you look at this picture you can see it is about 3/4 the overall length of the Spanish and German 14's. Another big difference is the curve of the heal of the blade. I offer up two ideas on why the pelican is so different

1: assuming all 14's are rough blanks then given to other companies for finishing, japanese razors, namely kamisori's have a much shorter blade length. Maybe the blank was simply adapted by the maker to the more recognized size in japan.

2: It wasn't uncommon in the past for japanese companies to copy popular items from other countries without fully looking into what markings mean, there is currently a japanese razor in the back of the classifieds that has "solingen" marked on the tang even tho it probably has nothing to do with germany

just some ideas i had while reading this thread.

-justin