Thread: Who is honing the Fillys at Classic now?

I have just recieved my 7/8 filar well about a month ago and it was pre sharpend and it shaves exallant so who ever honed this razor certanly no his stuff. my beard is pritty dense no pulling realy smooth shave.10/10

Well, after just successfully honing my new Filly, that I received from Classic-untouched, I can assure you who ever hones for them worked like hell to make $20

One REALLY NICE razor. A true &%*@# to hone, but once it's there it gives a fantastic shave. I've heard "toledo steel", anybody know for sure?

Although hard, the steel resists chipping and takes a beautiful edge. It'll probably last alot longer than I will,

Originally Posted by Lt.Arclight

I've heard "toledo steel", anybody know for sure?

Arc,

Is that anything like whoops, er, hmm, damascus?

Originally Posted by Bruce

Arc,

Is that anything like whoops, er, hmm, damascus?

Arc,

Just playing around with words. Toledo steel was supposed to be wonderful stuff - it made legendary swords. Then there is the mystical, marvelous middle eastern damascus, whoops, wootz steel or the best steel ever forged into a sword. Then we have the damascus steel of yore and the new damascus of the beautiful pattern. Then we have the tamahagane (sp?) marvel for forging into the Samurai blades of lore, but I couldn't fit that one into my maundering.

You don't suppose that the Moors brought with them to Spain the secrets of wootz steel and sterted making it in Toledo, do you? Hmmm.

I was in Toledo, Spain about 5 years ago. Beautiful city. I attended a few tours there and from what I gathered, there are few if any cutlers actually making knives, etc from forging on to finished product. I don't think steel is made there anymore. There are a fair amount of tourist knife shops with gaudy mount on the wall type knives that I would assume were made of poor quality steel.

I hope I'm wrong in that.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Utopian

....Anyway, I got an email back from them declaring that they had just shipped me an unhoned razor, which is odd since they had told me less than 24 hours earlier that they only had honed razors left.

Not that odd, really. After all, it only takes a few swipes across a Norton 2k with the blade held perpendicular to the stone's surface to unhone it.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I'd like to clarify that my objection was that I had no clue who the honer was. I certainly had no objection to Elbonator's honing. That would have been impossible since I didn't know who the honer was.
Tony, I figure if you recommend him we should all accept that Classic Shaving's pre-honed razors are good to go!

They might have mixed who honed a particular type of prehoned razor. So they might well not be able to answer the question as they didn't keep specific records of who honed which specific razor.

Guys, I know this is a late response to this thread but just to clarify I don't do all the pre-sharpening work for Classic but they do utilize me from time to time for small orders that need quick turnaround. The bulk of their presharpening work is not done by me. When they do ask me to do work, I love it and am very happy to do it but it doesn't happen very often and any razor you have that's presharpened was most likely not done by me.

Regards,
EL (Chris Ellison)

Originally Posted by RayG

FWIW, I have an older 7/8 TI Eagle I got several months ago from a member here, and it was just honed by Chris Ellison before I bought it - he did an absolutely first rate honing job.

Thank you for the kind words! :-)

Regards,
EL (Chris Ellison)