Thread: U.S. made razors...

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

If anyone would like to add names to the list of US makers of razors they deam worthy. So far I have ...

Shumate Razor Co.
Robeson Cutlery (various name types)
Torray
Geneva (Genco)

I think it would be interesting to see all the different names and makes.
I have one each from the green ones

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I purchased 2 razors from Jerry Starks and they are first class. Made in AZ. Can't beat the price. Great guy to work with.

C-Mon had some made in the US, some made in France, some made in Spain, some made in Germany. There was also S.R.Droescher, I think his stuff was predominately made in Germany, however as a reseller I doubt he was choosy. There was also Hess Hair Milk, Shapliegh Hardware, Dubl Duck, and that is just what I can think of off the top of my head. There were many hardware, barber supply companies and even hotel chains that had razors made and branded for them in unknown areas. They often look like they are marked as US companies but a closer inspection, often on the back of the tang, shows they were not made in the US, and other that don;t say where they were made.

Often over looked is Western States Cutlery. Great razors with a long history in US cutlery industry.
V/R

Tim

I think that America either produces excellent quality stuff, or it produces junk for quick sale. I'd go with American knife & razor equaling the best German craftsmen, or they're so darn close to Germans that difference is negligible. Who knows, maybe American knife craftsmen are of German ethnicity. Who cares? As long as quality is excellent, it's all good. An almost insurmountable advantage Germans have is Solingen steel, the best in the world.

Originally Posted by TreeBrand

I think that America either produces excellent quality stuff, or it produces junk for quick sale. I'd go with American knife & razor equaling the best German craftsmen, or there so darn close to Germans that difference is negligible. Who knows, maybe American knife craftsmen are of German ethnicity. Who cares? As long as quality is excellent, it's all good. An almost insurmountable advantage Germans have is Solingen steel, the best in the world.

Actually, it was a combination of Germans and Sheffielders that immigrated here to work and teach in many cutlery factories. I hear about the steel on this forum, what steel was used, German, Sheffield, etc etc, fact is that it is much more about how the steel was correctly hardened and ground then its provenance.

Then you have Simmons Hardware Co. with their Keen Kutters and I have also found that the Landers Frary & Clark "Universal" razors will take an edge and hold it. I have 6 with 2 more on the way.

My 2 cents.