Thread: First straight razor, Ralf Aust or Revisor

I'll stick with Shave ready as well.....

Originally Posted by RobinK

Riddle me this - how come razor makers ship razors not fit for shaving, but Lynn shipping tens of thousands of razors without ever a dud? Just sayin'...

Same for any(!) other shop selling additional honing services.

here is a link to GEOFATBOY about shave ready from the factory.

Like I stated previously my Revisor, IMHO came, shave ready for me.

https://youtu.be/O2F5vJdQ1Rk

Doesn't answer my questions, though. Revisor are a three man operation, two of them OAPs. Aust is Ralf Aust. Wacker are three people as far as I know. Less then Hart. Who knows how many razors Hart make, but if they make substantially less, there must be something wrong with their production process.

Dovo are about twenty, and, of course, CNC robots making the 5/8ths. Different matter entirely, and sadly lacklustre as of lately.

And no, I don't believe anyone is infallible, not even out beloved leader. People make mistakes, and claiming otherwise will only raise expectations to unrealistic level.

My latest new razor purchase was from Wacker. It came with a nice "shave ready edge". The best factory edge to date from all my German Imports.

Originally Posted by RobinK

Doesn't answer my questions, though. Revisor are a three man operation, two of them OAPs. Aust is Ralf Aust. Wacker are three people as far as I know. Less then Hart. Who knows how many razors Hart make, but if they make substantially less, there must be something wrong with their production process.

Dovo are about twenty, and, of course, CNC robots making the 5/8ths. Different matter entirely, and sadly lacklustre as of lately.

And no, I don't believe anyone is infallible, not even out beloved leader. People make mistakes, and claiming otherwise will only raise expectations to unrealistic level.

I agree with your assessment of a factory edge vs a rehoned factory edge from SRD. All human beings make mistakes but the odds of getting a new razor with a "Real Shave Ready" edge favors SRD.

Im going to give you my two cents, hopefully without invoking any off topic arguments. I cannot speak for Revisor I understand that it is a quality blade I own none. I can speak about Ralf Aust frenchpoint worked spine as I have this razor and enjoy it but I would not recommend it for someone new to straight razor shaving very good blade slightly unbalanced and might take some time for you to get used to it and has a bit of danger on its far end. I would highly recommend its little brother the 5/8 round point I own this also and i think its spectacular. Yeah its not as pretty but very keen very comfortable to shave and hold I really enjoy it. As far as strops My favorites are bridle and latigo the bridle has very little draw and mine sometimes feels like im stropping on ice and you can strop very fast. If you are new you dont want to go very fast you want to keep in control of the blade through the stropping motion Latigo achieves that for me due to its much heavier draw it forces you to go slow it has a lot of feedback and it is easier to tell if you are stropping well the bridle again excellent but it may take more effort on your part to keep things together. Your choice of hones might be fine if you knew a bit about honing again I dont think those stones would be my first choice i believe they will just confuse you. A way foward might be to just paste your linen strop with chromium oxide and learn to maintain your razor next get a fine grit finishing hone maybe a shapton or naniwa or spyderco uf or something along those lines and learn to bring your edge back. You can keep that razor alive for many months this way by that time you will have learned to strop and most importantly shave and have some sense what is good and bad about a razors condition. Then if you need to get a set of hones and learn them. Vendor wise again I can only speak from my experience SRD, Classic Edge, Vintage Blades, and Invisible Edge all have provided very shave ready razors and top notch customer service to me. Good luck and enjoy your new stuff.

This is my first attempt at uploading a microscope film. It also is this Luddite's first attempt at uploading a video to YouTube. Please bear with me. It turns out that my memory card was too slow so I had to record at a relatively poor image quality. Also, I have to focus by raising and lowering the razor so it is a little shaky. Sorry for anyone who gets motion sickness from this.

Anyway, this is my Shave Ready Revisor razor. The above referenced Kronenberg interview included the following.

Next, one of two hones. In the past five years, a growing number of synthetic and natural hones were introduced in various shaving forums. Seemingly every other month, a new super hone or honing technique is introduced, typically by people who make money by honing other people's razors for money. The Kronenbergs take a more traditional approach, says Günter, "I use the yellow hone with slurry, like we always did. When that does not deliver the expected results, which hardly ever happens, I use the grey one." Yes, things can - and, we believe - should be as simple as that. We will not repeat what the Kronenbergs had to say about people using more hones than that. Suffice it to say that they believe that what they use is sufficient, and that most people will be hard pressed to produce better edges using synthetic hones.

From what I have seen, I disagree.

Uh? When I click on the video, it puts up "Please sign in to view this video".

And, to be sure I have no idea about how to upload a video to youtube, etc..

cause I'm no help.

"typically by people who make money by honing other people's razors for money." He is quite a poet, isn't he? I was thinking about the exact same thing earlier. And that's why most likely I will end up getting Ralf Aust rather than Revisor. Revisor has got a wrong idea of what shave ready really is. I think "lethalgraphix" just got lucky and received a genuinely shave ready Revisor.

It should work now.