Thread: Polish vintage SR - SFK Wapienica , the "Surgical" one

To finish well my busy SR weekend I pulled out my old polish military one I wanted to present you.

It's brand is SFK Wapienica, this one is 11/16 of inch, near wedge ground. The factory Starobielska Fabryka Kos =SFK (Starobielska Scythe Factory) was found in 1938 (and was active up to 1993), but as far as I know those razors were produced already after 2WW.

There were several models of SR produced in SFK factory. This one actually is called "surgical", because it belonged to the military services operating theater equipment. It was used for shaving of surgical field of the patients before being operated. This SR is whole made of stainless steel for the steam sterilisation purposes. It was quite easy to buy as surplus during last years. Got to my hands about one year ago as a gift of a friend of mine as a NOS, anyways there was visible an influence of a time - steel surface was a little bit yellowish, so I decided to clean and to polish, trying to do my best.

You can see the result on the picture below. Have a nice week!