Thread: Jacobs Razors???

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.

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.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I did a writeup of it somewhere...

NOTE this was not a Jacob's razor, so maybe they are different.

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.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

Yup, that's the thread. I started at post #88.

Thanks for digging that up for us.

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 MAN LOVE

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...