Thread: Jerry stark razors

Originally Posted by Michael70

I know at first I posted I saw nothing that tickled my fancy of JS razors. Well, I take that back for I found and am ordering one of his razors in a Micarta scale material. I contacted Jerry direct about his razors and like those here have said, he stands behind them. I am going to take a plunge and see what happens.

Will post up when it gets here and after the first shave to give initial impressions. I will update as well as to how it holds an edge overall but that will be sometime of course.

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.

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

Originally Posted by Raymond3

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.

It is the high carbon 52100. Not the D2 which I saw but have no experience with.

I was fully prepared to go down that road if not for the folks here....

Originally Posted by BobH

Also have seen a lot of posts from newbies with experience sharpening knives take for granted that honing a SR will be a piece of cake because of that experience. Lots have come back asking why they can't get a comfortable shaving edge.

Razors and knives are similar but it is in the details that they are different. If that is not fully appreciated it leads to trouble.Bob

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.

Originally Posted by pathology101

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.

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.