Hi!

I'm Manne from Sweden and I am quite new to the SR-world. I've been lurking about the SRP forums a bit and have become quite fascinated with straight razors, spending hours upon hours reading about straight razors, grinds, honing, DIY strops, pastes etc.

As I usually do, I got carried away and plunked down quite alot of money (for me) into an ebay straight razor, which looked good and legit at the moment.

Here is the pic from the auction:




It has gold the gold etching "Solinger wertarbeit" and the stamp "Backal Solingen". So it looks good yea? Which was what I thought until I got it in the mail... in a small plastic folder:



And it has some kind of defect on the back/shoulder (not sure what this part is called):



My question is... does anyone know about this brand, Backal, is it legit or another pakistan razor? Should I keep this one or try to find a better one?

/Manne

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