Hi, reading on here a lot of folk seem to have a favorite razor, but what is your cheapest favorite razor, the one you still use but did not cost a lot?
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Hi, reading on here a lot of folk seem to have a favorite razor, but what is your cheapest favorite razor, the one you still use but did not cost a lot?
I only have about 25 razors, most of them some what expensive.
I have bought a few lower priced ones just to practice honing on.
One of them is a near wedge 5/8 Hunter & son, sheffield.
I paid no more than $25 for it.
It is actually a really good shaver and will remain in my rotation for a long time.
There's absolutely deals to be had out there:)
A large number of my razors where under $15, many under $8. Remembering what any one cost taxes my memory circuts a bit to much...
I have a rule, now, that my max bid on eBay is $20, and that's only for really nice lookers. I have spent more in the past to get some names (Henckles, DD, Boker, W&B) and now I'm focusing on the American steel that people seem to neglect. Those the the ones I'm getting for <$15, mostly. I have a Union with green pearl scales and a spotless blade that turned out to be one of my best shavers. I also picked up a "National Barber Supply" razor for <$10 that also turned out to be superb.
Goog
I have a Geneva Cutlery that I paid $7 for.... But I guess the best edge-to-price razor I have is my Bengall, which I paid $15 for and is just about my #1 razor.
My cheapest and best shaver for the price is this one i restored.
Cost about 4 bucks including cost of acrlyic. It was in a batch of about 7 razors and some scales for around $30.00.
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i think my cheapest one was a nice old near wedge that cost like £6 i think of ebay nice razor but took forever and a day to put an edge back on
A small Törnblom frameback, it gives very nice shaves and I shave my head with it. Did end up costing me around 9 usd incl shipping :)
Before I gifted it to my dad, I had an old ERN that cost me £20 that was a sweet shaver. I also snagged an old Sheffield wedge on eBay the other day, and that was about £18. I've cleaned and polished it up but not honed it yet, and I'm hoping that will be my next cheapie but goodie!
I have been lucky so far with prices so all mine would be considered cheap.. though my best razor right now is not technically a straight but a microtome that just happened to be 1/2 hollow ground by Bausch & Lomb.
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:
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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 . http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/HPIM2518.jpg http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/HPIM2516.jpg http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/HPIM2513.jpg
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.
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It was made in Germany for the West Side Grinding Company, of New York.
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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:
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