Thread: Vintage vs modern straights?

Little bit of extra info. I bought the Dovo's from SRD and they shaved just fine.

I have nothing but Vintage. I really like my smiling Sheffields.

Don't even know what a new razor is like. Never honed one, never shaved with one. In the near future I will have one of Silverloafs Kamisoris. Can't wait to try a razor that's never been on someone else's face before.

I think I read on the Revisor site that in the heydays of straight razor production there were 700 razor manufacturers in the Solingen area. Competition therefore was fierce and only the best could survive leaving no place for bad razors. The exact composition of the steel may not have been known by the makers but they knew how to get the best out of the steel they had. Science vs craftmanship.

I shave daily with razors dating from the new Aust back to the late 1700's. A well made razor will shave well if properly honed and stropped!

You taste will develop over time and finances. Whatever you choose, have it professionally honed.
The journey is in the learning.
~Richard

I would love a time travel machine so that I could skip forward 150 years and read rave reviews about the razors made by 'Charlie', 'Ali', 'Joel', 'Max', 'Birnando' et al. I hope they will be saying, they don't make razors like that nowadays.

Apologies to all those other modern makers who's name didn't come to me offhand.

Originally Posted by UKRob

I would love a time travel machine so that I could skip forward 150 years and read rave reviews about the razors made by 'Charlie', 'Ali', 'Joel', 'Max', 'Birnando' et al. I hope they will be saying, they don't make razors like that nowadays.

Apologies to all those other modern makers who's name didn't come to me offhand.

I'd like to skip back 200 years, if I had the wherewithal to do that and then come back to the present. I'd find out all the straight scoop on what the steel was, who the makers were, stop off in the twentieth century and find out the real tip about the Fillys, ducks, pumas, all of that.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I'd like to skip back 200 years, if I had the wherewithal to do that and then come back to the present. I'd find out all the straight scoop on what the steel was, who the makers were, stop off in the twentieth century and find out the real tip about the Fillys, ducks, pumas, all of that.

Good luck with that. Many of these things were closely guarded secrets. Some old fart drops over dead and it is lost forever!

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I'd like to skip back 200 years, if I had the wherewithal to do that and then come back to the present. I'd find out all the straight scoop on what the steel was, who the makers were, stop off in the twentieth century and find out the real tip about the Fillys, ducks, pumas, all of that.

And here I thought you WERE around 200 yrs ago

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

And here I thought you WERE around 200 yrs ago

Here is a "selfie" of me ..........

Originally Posted by Geezer

You taste will develop over time and finances. Whatever you choose, have it professionally honed.
The journey is in the learning.
~Richard

And this place has made the journey more easily undertaken.

Thanks Richard!