Thread: anothe off the wall

just got around to using this one. it was given to me by a long time friend he had several on his wall at his gun shop. I think this one is stainless because after 30 years on the wall no rust. the other 3 he gave me had some rust. they cleaned up ok and I've used them. this one however showed no sign of rust. just dust. cleaned and sent to lynn for honeing. the scales are some kind of plastic I guess the photo is not that good the light was all wrong. anyway after all the reading here on the form and watching lynn on the u tube this razor slide through a 3 day old beard with no sound and no pain. and this time with no color (red). this makes 4 times this way. thanks to all. does anyone know if Shapleigh HDWE company made stainless?

They had razors made for them from other companies. I had a Boker that was made for them.

as far as size and shape I also have a spear with the exception of the color of the scales looks the same. I wonder how many different companies each manufacture finished razors.

Pardon me, that is such a handsome razor, I just had to try to enlarge the pics and re-post !!....Combined with Lynn's honing, you're on a winner there. Love the scales too.

It Looks very nice.

That's a beautiful thing you have there. Shapleigh was one of the big St. Louis hardware stores back in the day, along with Simmons who I have a razor from that I use regularly. Some of the earlier examples of both were German made, but eventually made in the US, though I'm not sure where. Part of me hopes that they were made here in STL. Anyway, the Shapleigh name is still pretty common here in St. Louis, though the store that sold that razor is just a forgotten piece of history now, even by the family I'm sure. I'm an embalmer here in St. Louis and I come across old straight razors from Simmons and Shapleigh hardware that fill the bottom of drawers in old preparation rooms in funeral homes all the time. Most of them are shot after shaving thousands of bodies and being put away wet, often honed to death. I found an old Simmons one day that was still in reasonably good shape so I brought it back to life and had it honed and now use it fairly regularly. Anyway, to answer your question, I doubt it is stainless. Likely the run of the mill high carbon steel of the day, which is not at all a bad thing.

I should also disclose that I'm a relative noob myself, so I'm no authority on anything razor related. Just know what I see a lot...