Thread: Sanguine razors

I got one from ebay.
Just the razor, I like the scales.
Waiting on shipment though.

The jury's out on my blade.
A few laps on the 8k side of the norton and it was ready, felt pretty good, but I'm not sure of the steel quality.
I could tell the edge had room for improvement, but it overhoned a bit easy as far as I could tell.
I'm not an expert, but it seemed where a blade normally gets honed to dull, good, better, best, this blade went dull, good, better, overhoned.
I didn't have my norton available when I decided to work on the blade again, so circles and X's on my barber hone are all I had when I retried.
Worked out pretty well.
It is at the least an acceptable shaver, the question would be edge durability. At the price, I have no problem with more frequent honing once I get the blade just where I want it. It does hone easily, btw.
Scales feel very cheap but look nice anyway.
I'm happy with it. If I get another session or two in with it and the barber hone I might have a pleasant surprise like the wapi.

I got mine day before yesterday. A nice looking razor; the scales were cheap, but functional. Upon looking at the bevel on the scope, I decided it needed some work. I extablished a decent bevel with my DMT 1200 and started on my sharpening progressions. It sharpened up very nice and gave me a very desent shave. It's not quite in the league with the Wapi, but, what is for that price.

The bevel on the Wapi was short, but good (kinda like me), and didn't need work. I have heard that these blades are not consistant. Mine needed the bevel exstablished, but honed up well and shaved well.

For the price, it's good, but not great like the Wapi!!

I had to find out how good it was, but if I had it to do over again, I'd buy a Wapi any day over the Sanguine.

Regards,

Steve

Well, I got a nice shave from it after all.
My chin didn't even give it a hard time, and I got a nice two-pass shave from it.
It doesn't seem to hone *quite* as sharp as my better shavers, but it does hold a shaveable edge. My blade, at least.
Now, this blade is made in Pakistan??