Thread: What is your most rare straight razor?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Rare! What is the name on the back side tang?
With that type of cell, it is pristine! Kudos!

RP Wagner NYC and then made in Germany. I haven't received it yet but it is listed as having a centered and tight blade and you can see that everything is in very good condition. I can't wait to receive it and to hone it.

That's a 13/16" blade as well. I've been actively buying a few good razors lately and I wanted to end up with 5-7 unique razors for my rotation. I consider this one the last one (type) that I was looking for. So, I'm done (until I'm not)

Originally Posted by gcbryan

RP Wagner NYC and then made in Germany. I haven't received it yet but it is listed as having a centered and tight blade and you can see that everything is in very good condition. I can't wait to receive it and to hone it.

That's a 13/16" blade as well. I've been actively buying a few good razors lately and I wanted to end up with 5-7 unique razors for my rotation. I consider this one the last one (type) that I was looking for. So, I'm done (until I'm not)

So you will actually shave with this? That's pretty neat. I want to acquire vintage but "beginner friendly" razors and be able to use those as well.

Originally Posted by AnglesMatter

So you will actually shave with this? That's pretty neat. I want to acquire vintage but "beginner friendly" razors and be able to use those as well.

Of course. All razors are as "beginner friendly (or unfriendly) as any other IMO. Some are just look cooler to look at.

I don't even own any new razors. They hold no appeal to me. This might be my last razor. I set out to acquire 5 or 6 really cool razors and I think I'm there now.

This cheeky little number came in the other day.

Kamijo Yukio.



https://historyrazors.wordpress.com/.../kamijo-yukio/

Kamijo collaborated with Iwasaki and produced some of the finest out of Japan. Kamijos razors seem rarer than Iwasaki Tamahaganae western and this one even more so as it is a full hollow grind. Very happy to have one

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

That's bizarre! Looks like workers from Sheffield and Solingen got together and made a frankenstein baby!

I was just working on a razor tonight with that exact grind, from around 1810 Sheffield!

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

The answer to what my rarest razor is is probably this one:
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Those 4 are all that exist. So those are probably the rarest I have.

Except maybe...

Dude, your razors are the rarest ANYBODY has!

The latest.

An Antoni Tadross which is also my best shaver.

While not necessarily rare, I recently landed this great tapered Joseph Elliot Silver Steel from the razor wilds (also cross posting this as a reference in the tapered thread: https://straightrazorpalace.com/show...ed-blades.html).

Since the razor has not had any restoration work and doesn't have much blade wear (other than time), I think it's a nice tapered-blade example.

I didn't need to use calipers for verification…a good machinist’s ruler was sufficient.

The quill-back spine goes from 3/8 at the toe to 1/4 at the heel.

It's hitting between 1/2 - 17/32 near the toe and ranging about 11/16 near the heel (the measurement variability is from the blade’s smile).

I believe what looks like hone wear along the lower edges of the spine isn't wear but rather was intentional. Those flats run consistently on along both sides of the blade, are darn near the same width down the entire blade length, and are the same width on each side of the blade.

Also, the bevel lines are thin and uniformly tight on both sides of the blade. There is no bevel creep or etc. whatsoever up the blade…one would expect to see some evidence of bevel creep or at least some wavy unevenness along the bevel line on either side of the blade if those flats are the result of excessive hone wear.

My conclusions are the flats were perhaps honing aids, that the razor didn't see much action over the years, or whoever did do all that honing to cause the flats was one helluva honer to have maintained such a tight and even bevel on both sides of the blade.

In terms of restoration…am going to leave the razor basically as is. I'll do some work on the scales to rejuvenate them, give the blade a go over with some hand polish (no mechanical buffing or etc.), and then take it to the stones so it's shave ready.

At this moment in time this one, Charles Macdaniel a London maker Oxford street 1814 - 1851, I wonder who Mr Gardner was he seems to have been the original owner of the razor back in the day.