A whole box of razors

I went to the flea market the other day and as usual I was keeping my eye open for straight razors. When I see someone with a lot of old stuff on their table I always ask if they have any razors or sharpening stones. Sometimes I get lucky and the other day was the best. A guy said I have a few. He then reached in his truck and sat a box on the table about a foot square. It was more than half full of straight razors. About 20 percent of them were snaggle toothed rusted, Chiped, and broken beyond any hope. The rest were mostly intact. some rust on them and a lot of rust on some and some very lightly rusted. Now get this! I found nine BOKERS and six of them had good scales. He wanted from fifteen to thirty dollars for them. I only had the money for three but he said he would be there every week and would bring them with him. What a jackpot. I have already re handled one of them that had no handles and was marked, "RADIUM" with curly maple handles and sharpened and shaved with it. It is great. The other two have good handles and are marked KING CUTTER. I am going to restore them as best I can. As soon as I figure out how to do the picture thing here I will post pics of them. I am really excited!!!

Cool. You hit the mother load.

Congrats on the bargains!Look forward to seeing them in photos.Posting photos is pretty easy.Once they are on your computer,and you have clicked on "post reply",just scroll down to "manage attachments"it's way down near the bottom.Click that.Next click on one of the browse buttons.Find the photo you want to use.Double click on it.Once you have all photos you want to use lined up in the boxes,click on upload,then wait til they do.Sometimes takes a minute.Once that's done they appear as attachments.Then just click on Submit reply.Hope this makes SOME sense!

Ok here goes, I am going to try to upload pics of three of the Bokers I bought. One of them I re handled with curly maple. Mack

Nice find. Good for you...

I dream of days like that!

I admit that I am very lucky but I know next to nothing about what razors are the best ones to buy. Could someone give me an idea of what ones are the best to look for and maybe in the order of best to least. Thanks, Mack.

Nice find.

The wiki is your friend:

Good razors:

Good Straight Razor Brands - Straight Razor Place Wiki

Bad razors:

Brands of Straight Razors to avoid - Straight Razor Place Wiki

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Originally Posted by mackie

I admit that I am very lucky but I know next to nothing about what razors are the best ones to buy. Could someone give me an idea of what ones are the best to look for and maybe in the order of best to least. Thanks, Mack.

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Mack, unless you want to collect razors you could probably shave just fine for the rest of your life with those 3 Bokers and hand them down to your grandkids.

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Mack, unless you want to collect razors you could probably shave just fine for the rest of your life with those 3 Bokers and hand them down to your grandkids.

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+1 This is one of the best thoughts about shaving with a straight for me... My kids and grandkids will get to inherit one more personal, cool thing from me that will hold as much (I hope) meaning for them as it did for me.

Congrats on the fantastic score!

Jimmy,
I am looking to start a collection. Probably mostly Boker, but not completely. I saw the alphabetical list of good razors on this forum but I was wondering if someone would be willing to voice their opinion on the top ten in order of what they think are the best. Not alphabeticaly but by quality of manufacture.
By the way, You may think this is crazy but I am going to try my hand at making a razor. I have been a knifemaker for almost thirty years and I have some really good carbon steel and all kinds of handle materials. Making a wedge shouldn't bee that hard. I am going to give it a try anyway. Mack

if you can make one that gives you a good shave ill get razor # 2 from you
btw thats a killer find at the flea market!!

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Originally Posted by mackie

Jimmy,
I am looking to start a collection. Probably mostly Boker, but not completely. I saw the alphabetical list of good razors on this forum but I was wondering if someone would be willing to voice their opinion on the top ten in order of what they think are the best. Not alphabeticaly but by quality of manufacture.
By the way, You may think this is crazy but I am going to try my hand at making a razor. I have been a knifemaker for almost thirty years and I have some really good carbon steel and all kinds of handle materials. Making a wedge shouldn't bee that hard. I am going to give it a try anyway. Mack

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I don't know that anyone will be willing to do that. I think most of the brands on that list will have a lot of guys who are big fans of them. It's not necessarily my opinion because I've not had enough experience with all of the vintage brands, but I've heard Puma proclaimed to be the best production razor brand by a lot of guys. :shrug:

I know that I really like Bokers, Pumas, Shumates, W&B, and I could keep going...

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