Thread: Best razors from 1920s-30s?

Funny, I seem to have thought of a 'Phenomenon' in those years.

The Modern-Grind Wedges. Like bringing heavy grinds into the precision age!
Everyone made one!



Suckers were and are great in good nick.

Concerning the Solingen razors one main reason for an upgrade in quality at this time period is the increasing use oft he hollow grinding machine.
These machines, that are still in use today, are going back on a patent of Franz Voos from 1891. C. F. Ern also developped his own machines and took over the patent of Voos later.
However, it took quite some years until these machines disseminated more widely. Also Germany had to recover from the consequences of WW1.
So the hollow-grinding machine was mainly intruduced in the german cutlery works in the 1920’s. The machine was operated by hand and had been able to hollow-grind a razor equally on both sides, realizing a very thin blade in hollow and razor edge. Before the machines came up, the razors were ground solely by hand and only very good grinders were able to produce such a high quality simply by hand – piece for piece, absolutely uniform.
So it is not mainly the quality itself that raised during this time, but simply the increasing number of very good quality razors, that were produced in Solingen.

Regards Peter

Here’s a nice treat for our German friends, between-the-wars French point Bokers in 3-pin butterscotch scales. Simply superb!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Funny, I seem to have thought of a 'Phenomenon' in those years.

The Modern-Grind Wedges. Like bringing heavy grinds into the precision age!
Everyone made one!



Suckers were and are great in good nick.

Very interesting, I wonder if they were made on the same twin-wheel grinders (larger wheels)? I have some (mainly export models e.g. Greece, France, Middle East, USA) indeed they're great!