If You Could Have Only One Razor

**Miner123** · 10-09-2009, 09:50 PM

If you could have only one razor, what would be your choice, and why?

**ChrisL** · 10-09-2009, 09:58 PM

Personally, I can't answer questions like these. If I was forced to answer this question my response would be: The next great shaving razor I have not yet tried.

Chris L

**keenedge** · 10-09-2009, 10:02 PM

Solingen plain label. "5/8 Straight Razor made for Pros RP5N." See the link below. It's the best shaver out of my rotation of: Hess 1/4 hollow, Le Grelot 1/4 hollow and Wade & Butcher 1/2 hollow.Straight Razors made in Solingen

**Oglethorpe** · 10-09-2009, 10:41 PM

I'm with ChrisL... impossible to answer. I just had an incredible shave with a Clauss 11/16 that is pretty ugly.

HOWEVER -- I would say it would be somewhere between my Filarmonica 14EPBD, my Puma 222, and my Klaas "AM". Or my Gold Bug... uhhh... crap. Nevermind I can't answer.

**Bruce** · 10-09-2009, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Personally, I can't answer questions like these. If I was forced to answer this question my response would be: The next great shaving razor I have not yet tried.

Chris L

I'm with Chris on this one. I have a couple of razors which I like muchly and several more which I like muchly more. As it turns out, I'm a bit of a razor whore, perhaps a bit more of a whore than than I've yet disclosed. If I could reach only one as the tsunami hit, it would be a Friodur, but only because it's stain resistant steel (and I've got a couple which shave really swell). Then again, the likelihood of a tsunami striking up here on the tundra is remote indeed so we've got Livis and Le Grelots and Friodurs and Weltmeisters and DOVOs and Thiers Issards and a couple of wonderful customs... and... yup razorwhoredomgalore.

What a penurious thing this straight razor shaving is:

One Razor to shave them all,
One Hone to whet them,
One Strop to set them all
and in the shave den smooth them. (forgive me J.R.R.)

One razor to last a generation or two or three; amortized to mere dollars per lifetime. Inexpensive to the max.

Right!!!

There is no such thing as one razor.

**Scipio** · 10-09-2009, 10:47 PM

Id have to have all my favourite and desired features on a Robert Williams Custom, that technically in all probability doesnt exist....yet:

- 7/8

- Quarter Hollow

- Carbon Steel

- Barbers Notch

- Shoulderless

- Humpback

- Long Tang

- Extra Long Monkey Tail

- Ivory Scales with my initials in scrimshaw

That would just about do it...with some bulleye pins!

**JimmyHAD** · 10-09-2009, 10:59 PM

what is the sound of one hand stropping ?

**hi_bud_gl** · 10-09-2009, 11:28 PM

I take my 80 years old TI

**44Whiskas** · 10-09-2009, 11:36 PM

7/8 celebrated Wade butcher wedge barber notch black horn handle honed by a honemeister whenever needed at no cost stropped on a tony miller 2.5 horse/linen using bigelow shave cream lathered by a b&b brush in a moss scuttle - only the finest Egyptian cotton hot towel for prep all followed by thayer witch hazel AS and my choice of cologne for the day

but This is only off the cuff of course so gimme some time to actually think about this quesion

**dave5225** · 10-10-2009, 12:06 AM

If I could only have one razor , it would have to be a 5/8 round point , hollow ground .

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