Real or novelty/ would you shave with this?

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10-10-2019, 07:11 PM
PaulFLUS

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Real or novelty/ would you shave with this?

So I think the title says it all. To me it looks like a novelty SR. The description says "stainless" but then it says a lot of other nonsense which doesn't pertain to the razor either. interesting blade shape though. It's got that whole tonight we're going to party like it's 1799 thing going

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10-10-2019, 07:15 PM
Cangooner

I'm always *extremely* leery of any blade with that shape. IMHO they are virtually all RSOs trying to look like Sweeny Todd razors. Happy to be proven wrong though...

Shame, as that sure would brighten up the morning! :)
10-10-2019, 07:44 PM
markbignosekelly

Cheap tat, nothing more. I do like the Sweeney Todd styles though.
10-10-2019, 07:49 PM
PaulFLUS

I wouldn't shave a donkey's ass with that thing but it is interesting to look at. Might be worth $10 to put in the showcase...but then I'd have to get a showcase.
10-10-2019, 08:03 PM
petercp4e

That's why they invented 10 foot poles.
I wouldn't touch the thing...

Pete <:-}
10-10-2019, 08:13 PM
sharptonn

Wonder how many wives buy these things for their men as they hear he wants a straight razor? :rofl2:
10-10-2019, 08:35 PM
petercp4e

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Originally Posted by sharptonn

Wonder how many wives buy these things for their men as they hear he wants a straight razor? :rofl2:

Imagine getting that as a gift from the wife and being obligated to shave with it??

"Oh, that's nice honey.":rofl2:

Pete <:-}
10-10-2019, 09:50 PM
PaulFLUS

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Originally Posted by petercp4e

Imagine getting that as a gift from the wife and being obligated to shave with it??

"Oh, that's nice honey.":rofl2:

Pete <:-}

It reminds me of that old Nazareth song Love Hurts
10-10-2019, 10:55 PM
bouschie

First. Don't believe everything you read in an ad. That is NOT a razor! I would shave with a broken piece of glass before I put that to my face.
But that's just my opinion.
10-11-2019, 01:21 AM
JellyJar

Might be an interesting letter opener. I'd never shave with it, even if it was a gift from my wife (I'm pretty sure she knows better than that):D.
10-11-2019, 01:32 AM
Afoshie

Seen one in an antique store for $100 not long ago. The lady running it thought it was a great old razor.
10-11-2019, 06:43 AM
JOB15

And the wedge pin is not centered..
10-11-2019, 10:38 AM
outback

It does say in the ad. Folding pocket knife.!

Need not go any further.
10-12-2019, 03:18 AM
Kees

Don't trust anything that looks like it was found at the end of the rainbow.
10-12-2019, 03:29 AM
PaulFLUS

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Originally Posted by Kees

Don't trust anything that looks like it was found at the end of the rainbow.

Or something Jimi Hendrix saw on an acid trip?
10-12-2019, 04:15 AM
randydance062449

A few years back Charlie Lewis took one of those RSO ( Sweeny Todd) razors and modified it for a school play.

Here is a link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aahYZZkyp3g
10-22-2019, 05:29 PM
MrZ

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Originally Posted by outback

It does say in the ad. Folding pocket knife.!

Need not go any further.

I would buy one just to see if Outback could put a good edge on it. (BTW I absolutely love the SOTD that Outback has up today. That old Wolf is just a peach of a thing.)
10-22-2019, 05:48 PM
RayClem

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Originally Posted by bouschie

First. Don't believe everything you read in an ad. That is NOT a razor! I would shave with a broken piece of glass before I put that to my face.
But that's just my opinion.

I have seen some of your restorations, although I have not held one in my hand. I bet you could put a shaving edge on that RSO.
10-22-2019, 06:58 PM
outback

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Originally Posted by Kees

Don't trust anything that looks like it was found at the end of the rainbow.

I don't know about that. I found lots of good stuff at the end of a rainbow. :angel:
10-22-2019, 10:30 PM
PaulFLUS

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Originally Posted by RayClem

.... I bet you could put a shaving edge on that RSO.

Is that an RSO or a POS...or both?:roflmao
10-26-2019, 08:19 PM
Kees

Most RSOs are a POS but most POS are not a RSO.
10-30-2019, 06:51 PM
Tjh

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Originally Posted by MrZ

I would buy one just to see if Outback could put a good edge on it. (BTW I absolutely love the SOTD that Outback has up today. That old Wolf is just a peach of a thing.)

whew, missed that one - I was *just* thinking "I don't see too many 1700's-early 1800s type razors in SoTD"!

Also, are there a lot of these "sweeney todd shaped razors", at first glance the SEEM to imitate smthg you'd find made in 1799, but not really?!