Thread: J.A. Henckels #14

Nice...Real nice. That razor appears to be a real beauty. Congratulations.

I was so ticked about it after I got it polished up and honed.
This is by far my best deal so far.

You are right about the thin blade, I can't even see the bevel without my loupe. It took all of 8 minutes to hone up.

Decided I would shave test it. So I went through all the preshave and this thing shaves like a dream.
About half way through shaving I realized that I forgot to strop it on leather after I honed it. Just stroped it on the balsa hone with a little flitz and gave it 15 passes on denum. Oh well it still did a great 2 pass BBS shave.

Did you guys check out the hand hammered copper brush holder?


Silver2

Originally Posted by Silver2

Did you guys check out the hand hammered copper brush holder?


Silver2

I know I did. That's beautiful. Razor too. I've got some wonderful blades for cheap at antique stores. My fav. two are my Wade and Butcher and my Thistle.

+1 NICE Razor!!!!

Splendid razor! Can't go wrong with a vintage Henckles, and yours is a fine, and sizeable, specimen. A keeper for sure.

Congrats on the razor and nice job on the brush stand. Very cool look. You should do up a wiki post on how you made it, lots of do-it-yourselfer's on this forum would love to know I'm sure.