Thread: Marble's?

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

I think that's already happened to 3/4 of the guys here, and it may be happening to me......

Hi Steve,
3/4??? How do you explain the remaining 1/4 ??
Mike

Originally Posted by Kingfish

Hi Steve,
3/4??? How do you explain the remaining 1/4 ??
Mike

That's easy. Lot's of new members lately.

quote:
Anybody seen this? There is also a damascus version for $20.
Marble's® 100th Anniversary Straight Razor

Made by a master craftsman from Jalalabad who has a custom shop at the western foot of the Khyber pass. He is using only the finest steel from the hulls of cargo ships recently recovered from the ship breaker yards. This steel was fired to nearly white hot with dung from only the finest camels, then plunged into water hand carried by the burka wearing female members of his family.

Originally Posted by John Crowley

quote:
Anybody seen this? There is also a damascus version for $20.
Marble's® 100th Anniversary Straight Razor

Made by a master craftsman from Jalalabad who has a custom shop at the western foot of the Khyber pass. He is using only the finest steel from the hulls of cargo ships recently recovered from the ship breaker yards. This steel was fired to nearly white hot with dung from only the finest camels, then plunged into water hand carried by the burka wearing female members of his family.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry after reading that.

Laugh, by thunder! That's probably as funny as it gets with those razors!!

Marble's had a long rich history of quality products before branding imported Chinese axes as Marbles. Their new axes are notorious for lack of quality and I'd expect the same of their razors.

I bought both of them. They definitely look like Pakistan made stuff. I have not honed them yet but I am not optimistic.

Marbles was a GREAT company from turn of the century up into the 50'-60's then things get sketchy. I'm not sure of their 70's/80's history but it seems that the logo/branding was used by Parker knives somewhere along the way meaning faux Marbles in my eyes anyway. Then in the late 90's the Lauermans purchased the Gladstone, MI factory and resurrected the line (with the help of Mike Stewart of Bark River fame and son Jason) back to it's former turn of the century glory. Unfortunately this 2nd GREAT period in Marble's history was short lived (maybe 4-5 yrs) when the Lauermans took the operation overseas and dismissed the hand production crew in Gladstone. Last I heard the old showroom is simply a front. I believe Camillus now owns the brand although I'm not 100% sure about this.

Originally Posted by DaveMartell

Marbles was a GREAT company from turn of the century up into the 50'-60's then things get sketchy. I'm not sure of their 70's/80's history but it seems that the logo/branding was used by Parker knives somewhere along the way meaning faux Marbles in my eyes anyway. Then in the late 90's the Lauermans purchased the Gladstone, MI factory and resurrected the line (with the help of Mike Stewart of Bark River fame and son Jason) back to it's former turn of the century glory. Unfortunately this 2nd GREAT period in Marble's history was short lived (maybe 4-5 yrs) when the Lauermans took the operation overseas and dismissed the hand production crew in Gladstone. Last I heard the old showroom is simply a front. I believe Camillus now owns the brand although I'm not 100% sure about this.

Camillus has been out of business for a couple of years now.

Does anyone know anything about their sharpening stones? I went through probably 20 pages and the finest grit I saw was 1200 grit (their extra fine grit). I also found one lone razor strop:
Boker® Razor Strop

I also found several Arkansas stones and a variety of diamond grit but nothing that indicated the details of either. Does anyone trust their stones?