Thread: Titan japanese steel straight????

Just ran across this on the bay; was wondering if anyone knew anything about this brand. I've never seen it before. Claims to be handmade Japanese steel. Could be worth checking out I guess

Straight Razor Titan 6 8' Japan Steel Acro Stainless Steel Shave Ready | eBay

I remember reading about it a while back...
http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...tan-razor.html

There was a previous thread and the censuses was a "Dressed Up Chinese razor." It shares a lot of blade resemblance to a GoldDollar. I will get tar'ed and feathered for saying this but the GD's are decent razors if their honed properly. I would pass and get a nice used S.R. from a member on the forum. It will come S.R. and you will be money ahead in the long run.

Originally Posted by tiddle

Just ran across this on the bay; was wondering if anyone knew anything about this brand. I've never seen it before. Claims to be handmade Japanese steel. Could be worth checking out I guess

Tiddle, you may want to look for something else. The razor is made in China and claims to
be made from Japanese steel. "Handmade Japanese steel" is probably a bit misleading wording. There probably are workers in the factory that produces the steel and no doubt they use their hands doing their job.

I have tried one sometime ago out of curiosity and for the benefit of the members here. Again, you may want to try something else. I would also tell you to skip the gold dollar razors as well.

Just my opinion.

It's nearing the price where you can get a good vintage razor made by a known cutler (which results in a more skillful grind, and often a straighter razor - one devoid of problems like interfering shoulders, etc).

that razor may be ground straight, I don't have any experience, but the grind itself looks rudimentary and plain with a few shakes of hard buffer work thrown in. I'd like a few thousand other people develop consensus about the things before I got them.

When I think of japanese steel, I think of yasuki steel. I'm not sure anything else really moves the needle. A very large proportion of japanese razors were made with european steel, and not japanese steel. A japanese razor with european steel is a much more favorable combination than a chinese razor with stainless steel.

Another aside, if you ever did get a stainless razor that was truly hardened to rc65, you would hate it. HATE it. that level of hardness is reserved for plainer carbon steels if you want them to be manageable on the hones. Anyone who has ever honed or ground high speed steel will identify with what I'm saying.

Tried one as well as a Bakkus which was described the same Japanese stainless or whatever. It shaved fine, Its a Gold Dollar with stainless steel and they both had wooden scales. Slightly longer to hone as the increased polishing shortened the toe even more than the usual GDs. And thats both of them.

Originally Posted by bill3152

Tried one as well as a Bakkus which was described the same Japanese stainless or whatever. It shaved fine, Its a Gold Dollar with stainless steel and they both had wooden scales. Slightly longer to hone as the increased polishing shortened the toe even more than the usual GDs. And thats both of them.

I'm at a loss as to why a razor made in china is $65-76. Did they start out that expensive?

Bought the bakkus for 65 ish IIRC, the titan was sent in to me for honing. They both were "shave ready" although thats subjective, didnt pass my calibrated HHT, but the edge was not a factory GD and they ship from out of the country. Came in a decent case. Not saying you or anybody should buy one now, its not alot of money for a new stainless razor. If you realize it is a rescaled stainless GD with wooden scales that is somewhat shave ready and thats ok then buy it. If thats not appealing to you then I wouldnt.