Thread: The cheap one!

I got a 8/8 W&B Barber's Use wedge for $5. As far as I know, that's the least expensive razor in my rotation.

Shaved with it this morning.
This Shumate for $4.99 not counting several hundred in hones and strops to bring up to speed:

Im buying a variety of razors so I can learn the grinds . I am a knife maker and the only way ill learn how is to buy as many as I can that are different and go from there I bought these 9 at an antique store last weekend 2 shefield 2 soligen and the rest pretty much bokers 1925 era. One nice one with bone scales . I think I did well for 60 bucks. I am trying to clean them up and I bought a 1k 4k combo japanese water stone but I think my paper wheel and tormek hone pretty good . I need a 6/8 k stone to finish I think . I bought a vintage strop for 1 dollar and im using it seems ok .

I guess it would be a Dubl Duck Dwarf 3 pin square point with brass inlay on the scales that I got for free from a semi-retired barber. It's one of my best shavers.

Other than that I have razors in the $10 range that are great shavers as well. A Tonsorial Gem and some smaller wedges like Bowdins, etc.

Chris L

This "Ace" razor qualifies for me.



It was made in Germany for the West Side Grinding Company, of New York.



It has very nice bone scales, and it is a great shaver. All it needed was a little polishing, a light honing, and stropping. I got it from Ebay for $8.75, shipped.

For the past few months, I've been "dumpster diving" for inexpensive razors on eBay. My idea has been to buy cheap razors off eBay, deep-six the junk, clean and hone the rest up right, and sell them at my original cost on the SRD Classifieds. This would subsidize my eBay habit and keep me in honing practice, and provide inexpensive but solid razors to new users who didn't want to spent over $100 for a new razor just to get a reliable starter.

My biggest surprise was a no-name "Chas. Thomas, Wilkes Barre PA" 5/8ths round point with blue and white swirled "bowling ball" celluloid scales that really appealed to me, for $10. When I got it, the edge looked like it had been sharpened on pebbled concrete, I had to breadknife it down to 9/16ths to salvage it, and spent hours trying to get it into shape. It turned into a stellar shaver, as good as anything I've ever used. Now I'm keeping it. It's pictured next to an Allegeny Instruments Corp. mint spike point in 11/16ths that I snagged for $18: