Thread: thiers issard ebony

U2u

That is a pretty sad state of affairs what you are describing as being likely the norm from TI these days. For what you have to pay for a new razor these days that would bother me and likely why I hesitate to buy new these days. I can live with flaws in razors that are used and cheaper. As far as performance goes, I have not found a brand that is head and shoulders above others if they have a good edge.

No doubt though that the OP's TI will shave well regardless though.

Bob

That is what some of the new Thiers Lissard heels look like, though that corner seems a bit sharper than most. I would and have reshaped TI heels, that heel will cut you.

You can see the hone marks on the spine over the heel that go right up to the stabilizer. The stabilizer looks too high and may need reshaping as well, to hone the heel properly as well as rounding the heel corner to make it a safer shaver. It looks to me from the photos that the corner was ground to deal with a high stabilizer, extra pressure was then used to get the bevels to come together.

I own a few “Old” Thiers Lissard’s and have hone some “new” Thiers’ and the quality/detail and especially the finish are not what they were. They do shave nicely once tune, but personally for the price, you should not have to tune them up, they are not Gold Dollars.

You can put a touch of sharpie ink on the stabilizer and strop the razor over the heel, if the ink comes off, it is too high and is probably the source of the problem, hard to say from 2 photos.

For what you probably paid for the razor, I would send it back. You could buy 2 nice vintage TI’s for about the same price.

The photo is a new TI with corners I have worked on and even that is too sharp and in need of rounding.

The other photos are of a couple of old TI's I recently acquired and are in line for cleaning and some buffer time. Note the corners.

I was looking at your photos again and noticed that the face side half of the stabilizer has almost been ground off, yet on the other side it goes all the way to the ground edge. So the stabilizers are not even on both sides of the blade.

I don’t know how that happens as both sides should have been stamped at the same time.

That blade has issues, I would definitely send it back.