Thread: Razor Designs and the differences.

Hey there fellas. I have recently been seeing more and more different styles of razors that I never knew even existed, let alone that they are fairly common.

I was thinking it would be neat if we could all make a thread here showing all of these beautiful razors and their uniqueness. There are so many. All of the points, scallops/ spine work of all sorts etchings etc. But more so I mean the different styles of stub tails, to the differences In all of the frame backs, to double bellied grinds wedge style and hollow style etc. See where I'm going... there are so many styles and variations it would be very informative and interesting to see. Thanks in advance gents.

Ps. I know all this info would be easily seen and found in their own own threads all over this site... but figured it would be nice seeing them all together and back to back here in one thread.

That's what the razor clubs are useful for. https://straightrazorpalace.com/razor-clubs/

There's also a database of razors buried in the Library. The goal of the project was to have an example of and information about all the models of razors. The rate at which that happens (or happened) depends entirely on member interest.

https://shavelibrary.com/w/Category:...Razor_Database

The Database has help me when I started collecting but its lacking a lot. It was a great start. Its beyond my ability to add to it so I hope this might push folks to start adding to it again.

The OP's idea is good, but pics posted in this thread would still be just a mess and no order to it. When I want to look at razor porn I go to the SOTD.

This is a really interesting idea, but I have trouble visualizing the parameters that would be used to be distinguishing among similar types of razors.

No insult to the other SR owners or to dog owners, but the variations among "different" types/styles of straights are as varied as AKC registered breeds of canines, and they are evolving/changing and cross-breeding all the time (and have been for hundreds of years in the case of razors) to create "new" hybrids.

As I said, it's an interesting idea, but I just can't wrap my head around how it could be done.

There was a time when straight razors were designed to be utilitarian, simply a tool for beard removal. a lot of them had similar designs. Today, razors can be both a shaving tool and a work of art.

It would be easy enough to start a new sub forum, call it "the razor museum" or similar but that's where the easy part ends.

It would have to be organized and continually shuffled around and checked for duplicates and other things.

Any volunteers? We can discuss it with "the boss".