Thread: My 5 shave readies.

Top down,

Puma Bought oxidized and with minor chips. Worked out all the chips except a tiny one. bear 4k + swaty barber hone
http://www.personal.psu.edu/its5014/...s/PICT0001.JPG
Chas F schmidt. Bought shave ready. Have since done some minor tuning on the swaty
http://www.personal.psu.edu/its5014/...s/PICT0002.JPG
Robeson Shur Edge. Bought butterknifed, removed some oxidation, 1.2k DMT, bear 4k Swaty.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/its5014/...s/PICT0003.JPG
Geneva cutlery 2.5" blade. Bought with minor chips. Worked em out. 600 DMT 1.2k DMT bear 4k Swaty
http://www.personal.psu.edu/its5014/...s/PICT0004.JPG
J R Torrey "The Celebrated Hollow Ground". Bought with oxidation and a piece of scale missing. (doesn't affect shaving). bear 4k and swaty. I'll replace or fix the scales sooner or later.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/its5014/...s/PICT0005.JPG
I'd say repairs averaged 45mins each on the one's I got off eBay... so far puma is my favorite, followed by the Chas. But I just put dandy edges on the shur edge and geneva... gonna try them out tomorrow. Torrey still doesn't have an edge I'm happy with on it. I'm gonna work it on the swaty a bit more this weekend when I have time to shave.


My torso is almost hair free from testing these razors, and my arms look like I have mange.


Also, new digicam... wooo.

Originally Posted by IanS

and my arms look like I have mange.

Yeah, I've got the mange too! I usually get it when I go to the antique stores...you KNOW you want to see what the edge is like. Many times it's dull and takes nothing off, but there's always a couple that will do just that.

Then when you get home and you're honing it up, you've just GOTTA try it out on your arm every couple minutes...

It's just too bad my arm hair doesn't grow back as fast as my beard

Anybody else get a warning that the site in the first link is unsafe?

It's engineering student webspace at Penn State University.

Also the exact same folder of the exact same site as all the other links... no idea why the first one would trigger a warning.

I may just have my security set high.