Thread: How many straight. Razors do you have

I just recently moved a tad past the 200 mark. I need to stop.

Added a few more Kamisoris...one from Machida and a Takahashi Kanetake...I'm now up to 6 in total.

and here i thought I had a problem with too many underroos!!
I have Zero razors, looking to order 2 pretty quick! you guys have me scared...
sad part is i was in Munich a couple months ago, saw a couple of straights in a window at an antique shop, wish i knew now, not sure if they were a steal or not, definitely needed some restoration, but, who knows..

Originally Posted by Substance

26 Straights, (15 in current rotation, 5 cleaned up/restored awaiting hone day, 5 awaiting restore in various conditions from new scales required to a light polish & clean & 1 in the mail)
2 DE's
6 Hones
and (as SWMBO likes to remind me) only 1 face LOL

Item Producer Model / details ? size Point
1 Wade & Butcher Straight 13/16" Square
2 Norton Straight - Etched Norton on blade 11/16" Round
3 Wade & Butcher Straight 5/8" Square
4 Bengal Straight 6/8" Round
5 BIEDERMEIER Straight - 42 4/8" French
6 Wade & Butcher Straight - 14 Potel Euni scratched on scales 8/8" Square
7 Parkin or Nankin ? Straight - Acier Fondu - Stub tail 9/16" Square
8 Merx & Co Straight - 250 GAMERX 6/8" Round
9 Gillette DE - #58
10 Barclay Straight - 605 Just - Rite 6/8" Square
11 KRON-PUNKT Straight - 42 4/8" French
12 Wade & Butcher Straight - Scalloped spine "American Razor" 6/8" Square
13 Kraut & Dohnal Straight - "Damascus" 4/8" Square
14 KEEN KUTTER Straight - K743 SHAPLEIGHS ST.LOUIS, U.S.A 5/8" Square
15 OXFORD RAZOR Straight -WARRANTED . GERMANIA CUTL.WORKS 11/16" Round
16 SMITH & HAWKSLEY Straight wedge 5/8" Square
17 Union Cutlery Co Straight - Four Point, Square point 5/8" Square
18 145 Blue Wonder Straight 6/8" Round
19 Camillus Cutlery Co Straight 5/8" Square
20 Wizard Straight - Best silver steel, extra hollow ground 6/8" Round
21 45 Prima P.K. Qualitat "travelling" razor 6/8" Round
22 GRACIE SOLINGEN Lame 54 8/8 A nettoyer 7-8/8" Round
23 SILVER STEEL Straight - Stub tail wedge 11/16" Square
24 Harmonie 99 Straight 6/8" Round
25 Two Tix Ali & SS - DE
26 Ator Straight 13/16" Round
27 Bengal Straight 6/8" Spanish
28 "Solingen Magnetstahl" Straight 6/8" Round


Hones
1 Lillicraps DE - razor hone
2 Crown Barbers hone
3 Tam O Shanter Barbers hone
4 Naniwa 1k hone
5 Norton 4k/8k hone
6 Naniwa 12k finisher hone

Edit :also added this week
29 is a monkey tailed Brunoblade and
30 is a Vintage Thiers Issard - 1937 Special Coiffeur 6/8"

9, #10 is on the way...

In Rotation:
Dovo - 6/8 Special
W&B 7/8 Celebrated (restore)
Wester Bros. Optimo No.1 6/8 x 2
Hess 44 5/8 x 3
Double Duck Special No.1 6/8"
I. Oxley Liverpool 6/8"
Hart 7/8" Sq.pt. Satin
Salamander 4/8"
Robeson 7/8
Ralf Aust Spanish pt. 6/8"
Packwood stub tail
Feather SS folder if that counts.....

I can't say how many I have that need restored or just cleaned up and honed, a shoe box full at least....

5 razors and growing... I'm not finish.

I did some organizing and found most of them. I counted 38 boxes plus three tool chests. The chests have over 300 restoration blades without scales. I have no idea how many are in the boxes. Eventually I hope to have time to work on them!

Originally Posted by Utopian

I did some organizing and found most of them. I counted 38 boxes plus three tool chests. The chests have over 300 restoration blades without scales. I have no idea how many are in the boxes. Eventually I hope to have time to work on them!

Wow - think I can help you organize them, send all blades 9/8 and over bearing a stamp on the tang that reads something like this, "Wade and Butcher", and on the blade itself, look for something that say's, "The Celebrated Hollow Ground", and below that, and this is key, look for, "For Barbers Use", OK. Then, to organize them further, and inevitably make your job easier, look for one's that have a square tip, it's a right angle at the end of the blade, and the point may be spikey. When you get all those blades together, PM me and I'll tell you where to send them.

If you don't have any of those, fine, then just throw the whole lot out then....

Originally Posted by guthriemt

3 shavers (Revisor Gold, Dubl Duck Dwarf, Clauss USMC) 1 cheaply that I'm using to learn to hone with, and an Army & Navy that I'm slowly restoring. My goal is to have nice rotation of razor from all different places and ages.

What is an Army&Navy? Did the Gov't have straights made for them?