Thread: Dull as a Wedding Speech

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