Thread: Dull as a Wedding Speech

Obie,

Is that one of the new-production TI's? I read on rasage poulin that the factory sharpened TI's these days are shave ready. I'd make a strong case (if these are the razors we're talking about) that based upon your experience this couldn't be farther from the truth.

Ogie.


P.S. I just gave a best man speech this weekend and I had 235 people in stitches.

Originally Posted by Oglethorpe

Obie,

Is that one of the new-production TI's? I read on rasage poulin that the factory sharpened TI's these days are shave ready. I'd make a strong case (if these are the razors we're talking about) that based upon your experience this couldn't be farther from the truth.

Ogie.


P.S. I just gave a best man speech this weekend and I had 235 people in stitches.

I actually don't claim they are shave ready for every man. I encourage people to try a shave with the razor before sending it to be honed, or honing it themselves. My reasons for this are numerous but my personal belief is that every shaving item we buy is judged so subjectively and personally that there's no one cookie-cutter solution that's good for all men. What I do tell men who ask is that the razors are shave ready or nearly shave ready depending on beard type, etc.

I just wanted to clarify my position on this touchy subject.

Gentlemen,

Scott makes a good point: What Thiers-Issard may be to one shaver it may not be to another. We had made this point in one of the previous posts in this thread: that the term "pre-sharpened" is a matter of definition.

From what I understand, these new Sheffield Steel Thiers-Issards are factory sharpened. At least the ones I bought. The one with Kingwood scales was passable on the first shave. Not so the one with black horn scales. The Snake Wood Thiers-Issard, the last of the three I bought, was a disaster on that first shave. I started this thread addressing my experience with it.

All three, by the way, are gorgeous works of art.

I gave all three razors one shave and decided they needed to be honed by Lynn. I also have a heavy beard. Perhaps for a gentleman with a light beard, the razors would have been passable. To me, though, they were not. Now I can't wait to have them back so that I can truly enjoy the beauty of those Thiers-Issards.

By the way, I did not buy my Thiers-Issard razors from Rasage Poulin. I have bought other shave items from Rasage Poulin, however, and have the highest recommendation for owner Scott and his shave site.

On another note: Ogie, congratulations for knocking them dead at the wedding as the Best Man. My experience with the Best Man breed has been that they are as entertaining as a slug doing the tango.

Thanks everyone. I will report back when Lynn returns my lovely Thiers-Issards honed and ready to grace my Hollywood face.

Regards,

Obie

Also, to clear the air, I am hoping nobody took my remark as a sound disagreement with what Scott has said on his site. I saw the same thing in a video that I watched on manufacturing at TI (can't remember where but probably YouTube) and they also said they hone in-house and that the razors are shave-ready.

Now, just like anything that is mass-produced (at least to some extent), individual care may not be given. I know some guys who got TI's from AOS and theirs were dull as letter openers.

So, as with anything, YMMV and Scott is right -- work these things on a case-by-case basis.

Everybody have a great weekend full of BBS shaves and alcohol-induced euphoria (in that order, preferably).

Cheers,

Ogie

I ran my Dovo on a CrO strop as soon as I got it out of the box, then just reg stropping before shave. The CrO touch up definitely helped.