Great. Is it in D2 or High Carbon? I am looking forward to hearing about the initial sharpness from Jerry, as well as how long the edge lasts.
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Mine are carbon. The oldest has 50 shaves and still shaves great. Have not had to touch it up yet. The OOB edge was very good. I felt no need to take it to the stones. Easily passed the HHT and tree topped arm hair
I will take an slightly OT position on this as it seems the OP has made up his mind.
I feel generally that it is very difficult to improve on what has been done with straight razors in the past. I do think metallurgy is one area where there might be room for improvement. But design? So the conundrum for makers...hey, look at me or death to creativity by full on imitation.
Plenty of people feel otherwise and that is how it should be.
But I find myself looking at modern creations saying things like...why spikes all around, the tang is hellishly beefy, the tail is too thick, the scale materials are vacuous....I guess I'll go all in: The vintage razor is dead. Long live the vintage razor. IMHO....YMMV...and, keep evolving the craft.
I agree with WW on the basic design of the blade is maybe as refined as it gets or needs. I do like seeing new scale options. I am not a fan of those crazy medieval looking custom jobbies one bit. I like traditional looks to a blade itself.
One thing I have to say after looking at his razors is that they are very nice looking and it looks like he put a fair amount of work and skill behind each one. I know my 2 cents does not mean much since I have been a SR shaver for a whole 2 months. The thing I really notice is that he does not really charge a whole lot for his work pieces. I would think 3 or 4 houndred for a custom razor is not a whole lot of money. Just something to think about.
I agree and while I see some bevel edges under the magnification that seems uneven on some; I also see that with a few of my German beauties as well. I am willing to try it out and see and now like I stated I found one that appeals to me, I am going to give JS a try. Not sure about micarta scales however but time will tell. I assume he would not use the material if it was not robust. The material under magnification reminds me of when I was in a aerospace program at school and we built a small single engine experimental plane and built the fuselage and wings out of layered fabric material that we coated and dipped with a liquid chemical that would make it harden to that of like fiberglass consistency.
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Thus one is on the way to me, nice guy to deal with I,m sure the razor will be of great quality and to be fair a very reasonable price
Gary
Micarta is very durable... that razor looks good.