Thread: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

Cutting (hehe) through all that, there are 6 razors that consistently shave super great for me:

Heljestrand MK 31, WWI-era (paper-thin hollow, 5/8)
John Shepherd WOLF, 1780's (thick wedge, 1700's style 'no-tang', 7/8 at the widest)
Trud Vacha, post WWII-era Soviet-made stainless (quarter hollow, 6/8, heavy scales)
Fred Fenney 'Tally Ho', 1830's (late regrind, paper-thin hollow, 6/8)
Stodart I & O, 1824 (heavy wedge, experimental iridium-osmium steel alloy. 5/8)
John Hives, 1810ish (slender wedge, 5/8 at widest)

Not really a helpful list!

So, are those razors always in your rotation, all or in part?

(I for one have a devil of a time getting a close shave when my stool is scant and pasty).

Originally Posted by WW243

So, are those razors always in your rotation, all or in part?
(I for one have a devilish of a time getting a close shave when my stool is scant and pasty).

Hahahaha.

My rotation!

They're the ones I go to when I don't feel like messing around with it, or when I just want to be certain I'm going to get a good shave.

But my rotation is typically something along the lines of:

10 print "Well, this is the most recent one to come in the mail, I'll hone it and see how it shaves."
20 goto 10

Every now and then I think "I should shave with that particular one, because ________".

And personally, I can't get a good shave on one of those really rugged stools.

Originally Posted by WW243

So, are those razors always in your rotation, all or in part?

(I for one have a devil of a time getting a close shave when my stool is scant and pasty).

A little to much information there.