Thread: THAT one razor you absolutely love?

...and of course, I should say this certainly qualifies as, "The One", provides a really superb shave, especially after a couple of laps on the Escher Barber's Delight yesterday.....

Wade & Butcher, The Ottoman Egyptian and Royal Windsor Razor

Originally Posted by Phrank

...and of course, I should say this certainly qualifies as, "The One", provides a really superb shave, especially after a couple of laps on the Escher Barber's Delight yesterday.....

Wade & Butcher, The Ottoman Egyptian and Royal Windsor Razor

It's interesting that of the three (though yours might represent a fourth) I've seen, no two are precisely the same, and one has 'Egyptain' instead of 'Egyptian'.

I've never been able to figure out precisely what's up with them. My best guess was that they were made for the Royal Windsor hotel in Cairo.

The great big huge problem with that theory is that the style predates the hotel by almost 30 years. I've got an 1860's Gilchrist with the same blade shape (though a more exotic blade grind), and a Philadelphia hardware dealer from the 1870's with everything the same except a barber's notch.

The Royal Windsor hotel didn't open until 1893.

Bound to be my favorite. I have no idea why. Great razor!
Richard Herder for D. Grandsard of Oostburg. Either Dutch or Wisconsin.
Always wondering..

I haven't even finished restoring this one, much less honed it or shaved with it.

The design is pretty much my favorite ever, though. From the weird double-hollowed rattler grind to the thumb-cutout, this is just the razor design for me. It's not huge, but that's fine. It doesn't have to be.



(And before anyone gets excited, the book it's on is about Gilchrist's son and offers only one or two sentences on the razor guy.)

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

I haven't even finished restoring this one, much less honed it or shaved with it.

The design is pretty much my favorite ever, though. From the weird double-hollowed rattler grind to the thumb-cutout, this is just the razor design for me. It's not huge, but that's fine. It doesn't have to be.



(And before anyone gets excited, the book it's on is about Gilchrist's son and offers only one or two sentences on the razor guy.)

I have a Joseph Elliot like that...here's a pic before Karl did a magnificent restore on it.



And I think you have the other Napoleon Raggs....:-)

Originally Posted by Phrank

I have a Joseph Elliot like that...here's a pic before Karl did a magnificent restore on it.



And I think you have the other Napoleon Raggs....:-)

That is an awesome Elliot! It adds the bottle-opener point to the whole design! Sweet!

I've only got the one Ragg Napoleon, but it is a doozy! (And a sweet, sweet shaver too)

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

That is an awesome Elliot! It adds the bottle-opener point to the whole design! Sweet!

I've only got the one Ragg Napoleon, but it is a doozy! (And a sweet, sweet shaver too)

That's a spectacular Napoleon, I remembered when a few of them went on auction right from the family, like a feeding frenzy and I only managed to snag one of them.

Here's the Elliot after Karl's magic, nice a clean and some new skins:



Joe Elliot had some strange shaped razors, have that weird frameback with the belly on the tang, and a few more like the Damascus and another with a pinched tang...superb maker, and from my favourite place - Sheffield!