Thread: Twin Duck

Yes the twin duck predates the DD name. Mr Bresnick went through this transition with several names and logos before he settled on DD. Before the twin duck there was a model with one duck on it but it wasn't called a single duck just a lifetime which predated the twin duck.

yeah he had a thing for birds, there's also the rooster...
that one i'm pretty sure i put up in the database in the wiki

Yeah, as the others have already said, "hand-forged" is more of a gimmick. I'm sure anyone who actually works steel with their hands would not be content to leave a razor looking as raw as that. It's as transparent as including your 8 month-old's name on the Christmas card...except you write it in crayon...with backwards letters and stuff.

Except there is at least one Livi Blade were the forging scale was not taken/polished off.

Originally Posted by Blade Wielder

Yeah, as the others have already said, "hand-forged" is more of a gimmick. I'm sure anyone who actually works steel with their hands would not be content to leave a razor looking as raw as that. It's as transparent as including your 8 month-old's name on the Christmas card...except you write it in crayon...with backwards letters and stuff.

Many traditional Japanese razors have various forging marks still left on them especially on the spine. The one I have out as the pass along has alot of forging marks.

Yes the rooster is a strange case. The one I have has no indication as to where its made and its one of the earliest Bresnicks. It also doesn't shave the same as the other ducks.

I just went through 12 pages of those daffy ducks in the Razor Clubs forum here. Very enjoyable but no example of the mysterious "Rooster" TBS and Gugi are talking about. Can we get a photo gentlemen ? RAD suffers want to see one.

Edit; saw gugi's post above and the rooster is here in the SRP Wiki razor database ..... thanks to gugi ..... now I need a Rooster.

I had it in the SRDB jimmy, and I was wrong, it's bresduck, not bresnick

Bresduck Inc "Lifetime - Wedge (Rooster)" 5/8 - Straight Razor Place Wiki

The photographs aren't all that good, but I never was able to get some that look more like it. The full blade is blued and the grind is wedge.
I am yet to hone my satinwedges, but if they are similar to the other german wedges like the red imp, crafstman, hess, etc., yes the rooster would be different. It's more like a sheffield.

With regards to the "Hand Forged" etc. I know it is not a "custom" per se, and that the hammering and scale is cosmetic- but if you think about it, they were hammered and forged. Just watch the vid of how Dovo does it. With a pneumatic hammer.

Originally Posted by khaos

With regards to the "Hand Forged" etc. I know it is not a "custom" per se, and that the hammering and scale is cosmetic- but if you think about it, they were hammered and forged. Just watch the vid of how Dovo does it. With a pneumatic hammer.

I do wonder if they really are ... or rather were hand forged ? More than likely another marketing gimmick and they made them using the same method they were using for all of their razors. The Bresnick Brummels also had a hammered tang .... or some did.

I shaved with mine this morning. It is an 11/16 and was one of my early efforts at honing. Great shave and I think that the reason the old barbers I knew years ago said that they loved the ducks was for their ease of honing to a great edge and they hold an edge once sharp.

Lol I am saying it was a marketing gimmick! I'm just saying if you watch the vids they don't use robots- a worker places it in a pneumatic hammer, pounds it, flips it, pounds it, flips it pounds it etc then tosses it into a bin. Later another guy dips like 15 into liquid lead for a few mins, then into oil. Once again, mass production but technically a person. The hammer marks are easy enough- you just put dimples in the jig, and after quenching metal makes black scale on it that is normal ground/polished off. I am saying that they probably just didn't grind/polish off the tang so its evidence of "being forged" even though all blades get this treatment. I DOUBT some worker hammered them out on an anvil.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I do wonder if they really are ... or rather were hand forged ? More than likely another marketing gimmick and they made them using the same method they were using for all of their razors.

I shaved with mine this morning. It is an 11/16 and was one of my early efforts at honing. Great shave and I think that the reason the old barbers I knew years ago said that they loved the ducks was for their ease of honing to a great edge and they hold an edge once sharp.