Thread: the razor that killed RAD

So what is the razor that you decided was so good it probably won't get any better?

For me it was a puma that just totally wrecked my RAD. Smoothest shave ever and absolutely no razor burn. IME puma plus japanese hone = straight razor nirvana.

there is always puma rad lol it never ends !

Ha - ha - ha - ha - ha - ha - ha - ha !! If one razor, any razor, kills your RAD; then brother you never had RAD in the first place. RAD isn't curable by any other means except abject poverty and/or death.


Regards - Walt

For me it was a Henckels Friodur 7/8" round point. It is now my daily shaver, and inspired me to buy more Friodurs of varying sizes. I now own four in three sizes and two shapes of various vintages. My only obsessive thought here is whether or not to have them prettied up and rescaled... I love these more than my Dorko, Filarmonica, Revisors, etc. I even shaved for quite a while with a Feather Japanese style, went back to the Friodur for "just one shave" and put the Feather away.

The Heirloom strop company cured me of Strop Acquisition Disorder before it started really... I have two of those. I knew I'd found canvas and latigo nirvana with them.

I have one badger brush for daily use and a travel model for... well... travel. No BAD here.

Bart Torfs at Coticule.be cured me of any desire for other hones, and the last coticule I bought (it was a hand picked one from him) cured me of the need for more coticules.

Soaps, creams, aftershaves, witch hazels... that's another story.

Originally Posted by Walt

Ha - ha - ha - ha - ha - ha - ha - ha !! If one razor, any razor, kills your RAD; then brother you never had RAD in the first place. RAD isn't curable by any other means except abject poverty and/or death.


Regards - Walt

+1 Ha so true except i dont think poverty will stop it either. Their is only one cure. DEATH! Me personaly im in no hurry to be cured!

I ain't found mine yet but I'm still looking.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I ain't found mine yet but I'm still looking.

THAT, gentleman, is RAD!

I think I'll be banned from the RAD club.
My rotation now consists of 2 kamisori (an Iwasaki & a Kobayashi). They just do it all for me.

I have sold all bar about 3 of my western straights & they will likely go when I get around to it. Yes I even sold my Puma

I can't imagine such a razor exists. Every time I find a new and wonderful shave, that's better than any I've tried before; it has the opposite effect.

Instead of thinking, "it can't get any better than this," I think, "If this one is this much better, I wonder how good that one is......"

I've got 100+ straights that includes 14 or 15 customs, Filarmonica's, Dubl Ducks, Mappins, Wade and Butchers, Wostenholms, Pumas, Henckels, Joseph Rogers, Klas Tornblums etc etc. I've got horn scales, ivory scales, wooden scales, plastic scales and even mammoth ivory scales. I've got wedges, half hollows, full hollows and framebacks. I've got multiple pairs and 7 day sets. I've got Damascus steel, carbon steel and stainless steel. I've even got stainless Damascus.

Nothing has cured my RAD.