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Does anyone know anything about "Jacobs" Razors?
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Does anyone know anything about "Jacobs" Razors?
I remember hearing that they are Pakistani in origin and pretty much only worth buying for the scales. Poor shavers that do not hold an edge. I think I recall hearing they come in both bone and horn and obviously, looking at the picture, an acrylic material also.
Mykel
I doubt they are worth it for the scales either, unless you want to entirely re-work them. And at that point, you may as well just buy the raw material yourself.
For example, I bet they have flat wedges...
This is the reason that I was asking:
2 Damascus Straight Razors SET! Nice Handles 250 Layers - eBay (item 170568637675 end time Nov-26-10 12:51:11 PST)
Thanks for the input...
They really look very clumsily ground don't they? Check out how big and chunky the tang is on those suckers! The shape of the heel..... generally the entire piece of steel is all less than average.
That pattern welded steel looks kind of ok though.
Probably intricately painted on.:D
Maybe if one played around with a bit of a re-tempering and re-grind on them they could morph into something usable. Maybe.
Maybe Seraphim, the King of turning dodgey into possibly OK, has already given it a shot?
Mykel
Good call on the tail and tang. I contacted a guy who sold "damascus" "razors" on ebay and he sent me one to play with, free of charge. One characteristc of it was that the tang/tail area was not tapered at all - it was as thick as the spine. This meant that the razor would never snug up in the scales.
Also the scales were not well done, the fit and finish was poor, the grind was off, and the razor did not hold an edge. I did a writeup of it somewhere...
NOTE this was not a Jacob's razor, so maybe they are different.
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Originally Posted by holli4pirating
Thanks Dylan. This may be related, I think, to that review. Thanks to the magic of Google.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/aucti...us-blades.html
Yup, that's the thread. I started at post #88.
Thanks for digging that up for us.
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Originally Posted by holli4pirating
No worries. Pretty amusing thread. Especially post #25 where you have included a copy of an email from the seller, Jeff. Jeff finishes his email with with no less than 14 kisses (in x format of course) directed at you. Hehehe:rofl2: MAN LOVE:D
On a side note... I saw that in Buddel's last post he was going to retemper, regrind and update. There is no update yet, but there is a gallery collection of a damascus razor on his website that looks like a potential suspect. I have PM'd him to find out how that went.
MykelDR... Thanks for the thread...
holli4pirating... Thanks for your hard work... It's saving me $$$ in the long run...
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Originally Posted by NoseWarmer
You are very welcome. That is what it's all about.:tu
Mykel
First, I donīt know the Jacobīs razor - but - they look like that they come from the same source, than the other pakistan razors (imo).Quote:
Originally Posted by MykelDR
Here is the one, with I played arround:
http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/pakistani1u6ex4sd3.jpg
http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/pakistani4ljs60rn3.jpg
The back of the blade is to tin for a 7/8, the scales are much to heavy and the grind is unfinished. So it was possible to re-harden and temper the blade.
Here is the blade after the regrind:
http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/damas...t1lsg4rwqe.jpg
The filework on the back was also to sharp, so it "grinded" the strop. I rounded them to fix this.
Here is the finished razor with simple ebony scales (i dont puted too much skill and time in this project ;) ):
http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/paki1nhy4tdza.jpg
After that the steel was hard and honeable. Itīs possible to shave with the razor. In my opinion the quality of the steel is ok, but not very good or outstanding. After the process you will get a average razor with a good optic. But the qualitiy of a real custom damascus razor is much more higher. Without optical aspect this razor is for me in a price range from about 50,- Euro. Without a new heattreating it is grap.
Buddel,
Looks great... I know that looks don't make it shave...
Great to see you could make something that will shave out of what was previously only a poorly finished piece of eye candy. It would be interesting to see if the Pakistani razor manufactures could put the energy into making a working blade that they put into an overly complicated scale design and fancy Damascus steel. It seems that shaving ability is forgotten in the quest to make a something that will sell.