Thread: Thiers-Issard La Mouette 7/8 Rams horn.

Originally Posted by ama015

After receiving a wonderful Wade&Buthcher 5/8 Straight Razor from Bob a few weeks ago I really got hit by the Straight bullet. The pure beauty of the razor, the skill needed to master the sharpest of blades, the history behind the W&B piece of art, shaving the way my grandfather father was shaving, and not to forget the proud feeling I had when I shaved my first real BBS with Bob`s fantastic gift.

So I thouhgt to myself, I need another Straight Razor, and as a Norwegian I would like something reminding me of home. I have bought a quite a few soaps and creams from a woman living at a small island called Fitjar in Norway. She (her name is Jorunn) produce everything by hand using only natural ingredients, and recently I saw that she had some beautiful Thiers-Issard Straights at her internet site.

I fell immediately for a large Razor, the 7/8 La Mouette with Rams horn. The lighthouse and seagull put on by hand in gold are drawings from Jorunn herself after inspiration from her own surroundings, and TI made some Straight Razors exclusively for Jorunn. These Straights are called La Mouette, and is only sold by Jorunn/Fitjarsoaps in Norway.

She had two left of this 7/8 Straight, and I could choose the one I liked most. Both were very beautiful, one was with a darker kind of horn, I choosed this one after some consideration.

I got it a few days ago, and have shaved with it the last two days. I was a little worried about the LARGE blade, but everything is working great. The blade is of the full hollow ground type, and is called a singing razor by TI. And yes it sings a nice song when shaving, I can put my name under that.

Now I have two world class Straights I think, the W/B 1880`s I got from Bob can not be matched by a new razor, but with my limited experience I think this Thiers-Issard is a top of the line razor when it comes to quality.

Anything handmade and with the best quality cost some money, but the 400 dollars I spent on this razor feels like an investment for life - thinking like this it is really cheap actually!!!

Now I`m just looking forward to my next Straight shave, never thought I would say that after the initial disasters last year, but time and dedication reading this forum made me break the wonderful code of Straight Razor shaving. Thank you SRP and all contributors.

My La Mouette was so excited when he found his long lost twin brother on this thread! He had this picture with his twin brother, which his mum Jorunn gave him! Thank you so much for this thread.

I am enjoying shaving with mine as I am sure you are too.

The second photo I took last night from my office in London. Have a great day.

Originally Posted by bambos

My La Mouette was so excited when he found his long lost twin brother on this thread! He had this picture with his twin brother, which his mum Jorunn gave him! Thank you so much for this thread.

I am enjoying shaving with mine as I am sure you are too.

The second photo I took last night from my office in London. Have a great day.

I can see it came to a good home! It looks brilliant, congratulations.

I have just shaved with mine, the shave is perfect and I really enjoy shaving with the large La Mouette 7/8. I hope you will be as satisfied as I am

Thank you for posting our "twins"!

Beautiful razor and scales, congratulations on a great purchase! My TI did not come shave ready, and was a real bear to hone. It shaves beautifully now, since I reset the bevel and finished it with a progression of natural stones. My question to you is this: did the razor come completely shave ready from TI, or was it honed by Jorun? Thank you.

Originally Posted by Croaker

Beautiful razor and scales, congratulations on a great purchase! My TI did not come shave ready, and was a real bear to hone. It shaves beautifully now, since I reset the bevel and finished it with a progression of natural stones. My question to you is this: did the razor come completely shave ready from TI, or was it honed by Jorun? Thank you.

Yes, it is a beautiful looking razor indeed. Thank you for your kind words. I do not really know if Jorun had this razor honed or not. I did get it brand new but she may have sent it off to get honed with the other one; I'm not entirely sure. I tried it and it shaved arm hair well above the skin with ease, and made musical notes on every cut!

I did not ask for a shave ready razor as I do my own honing. The only things I did to the razor was about 15 strops on balsa with CROX, about 40 strops on a linen strop, and then 50 on a leather strop. The shave was nice and smooth with no signs of pulling.

Bambos

Originally Posted by Croaker

Beautiful razor and scales, congratulations on a great purchase! My TI did not come shave ready, and was a real bear to hone. It shaves beautifully now, since I reset the bevel and finished it with a progression of natural stones. My question to you is this: did the razor come completely shave ready from TI, or was it honed by Jorun? Thank you.

My La Mouette 7/8 was sent to honing before I got it. Jorunn send the razors to professional honing if you ask for it before you get the razor. When I got mine it was shave ready, took the hanging hair test with ease.