Thread: Straight razors shorter than 3 inch blade length!

Thanks for the comments but I think I am going to stop using straights and just stay with DE's. I am bothered about refreshing/maintaining them and actually honing them with the stones involved and costs of these stones I am finding out that even whetstones if found cheap, need a ton of work to get them ready to use to refresh razors and the prep costs add to the price of the stone so it will be too costly for me to pursue. I was hoping what I had here would work but the Arkansas stones I have are not ready to use either.

Thx. again and feel free to close this thread if you want.

I think your best options would be for modified razors that have been made into "shorties" (usually because of damage to the tip of the blade) or perhaps look at a replaceable blade straight like a Feather or Kai. No maintenance needed.

I have an old but heavy Wm Greaves & Sons straight razor with a 3 5/16" edge length! It weighs 73.8 grams or 2.6 oz



This next one is a Wm Greaves & Sons straight razor with a 3 3/8" edge length! Because it isn't as wide, it weighs 67.9 grams or 2.39 oz



Like Neil said, a 3" blade was not a standard size. I have no idea why these were so long but it was way back in the day too, most likely early 1820's to 1830's since the tails are longer than stub tail razor's.



The top one which is the heavy one has bug bites on the other scale. I would like to find some good original horn scales to replace them with to keep it original like it is. I love the Spanish point on the lighter one though. They are both nice straight's though!