Thread: What razor to get for my husband

A few more that speak to me. If he likes wood, you wont go wrong with snakewood. The rustic horn on the other one is equally pretty.

As for the blade, both Aust and TI, or a Revisor will be of great quality. I guess all of these can come in horn, or snakewood. So just look at their website and see what can be customized, or what's readily available.

For a present, a size of 7/8 is a great choice. The perfect balance in my opinion. Anything larger may get a lot more expensive and anything smaller will be, still nice, but kinda standard.

Looking forward to the pics... photograph the steel, so not to give yourself away If he's reading this though, I'm gonna assume he's having a lot of fun... and his heart should be melting.

Originally Posted by Srdjan

If he likes wood, you wont go wrong with snakewood.

Does the snakewood have any benefit, or is it just very classic (an excellent reason to choose it.) Also, this might be a a really silly question- I like the gold on the blades. Will that wear off with time and then look funny?

Originally Posted by CrabbyCakes

Does the snakewood have any benefit, or is it just very classic (an excellent reason to choose it.) Also, this might be a a really silly question- I like the gold on the blades. Will that wear off with time and then look funny?

I think in time gold plating will eventually wear off a bit. That will be amplified if honed without tape if the gold is on the spine or one uses an mild abrasive polish a lot to get rid of oxidation stains. But that goes along with the territory unfortunately here.

If he likes wood best over horn scales then you can find a lot out there. Once again, PRC has quite a variety of woods they use. I only sing their praises because they make fine razors.

The Jerry Starks and Bell and Hat have wood scales but they usually go near or north of your top budget. Most of their south of $300 are micarta scales which is a resin type scale it appears. Never had a micarta scaled blade so I cannot comment.

Wood is nice. I have a Dovo with yew wood scales and it is nice. I tend to favor horn scales myself or some of the more exotic woods or hard to get wood like a nice spalted maple or burl with great grain patterns.

You have time to decide.....unless you go with PRC. They have a 11-12 week turn around right now so you would have to decide I would suspect by beginning of October and have your order in. May do to call as well to make sure since it would be a Christmas present if they can do it in that time frame.

But either way or however you go, it will be a hit!