Revisor-Revisor-GOTTA arrived today

USPS delivered a package from Thomas Kronenberg, Solingen Germany today. It contained 2 Revisors, and one GOTTA 120. The top Revisor is a replacement that Thomas sent me for nominal charge for the mix up of the order of the one I had ordered recently. I was supposed to get a Green one and ended up with Blue. This top one is Green.

Second down is a Revisor Extra Hollow Ground 5/8.. they are all 5/8 BTW. On the Left side it says Revisor on the tang. On the Right side it says C. Friedr. Schmidt Solingen with a Puma on a branch. This is one of the earlier original Revisor markings.

Third down is a GOTTA made by Grah & Plumacher. Brand new, including box! Hamburg Ring and Super Fine on the blade. 120 on the tang along with the name.

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Jimps on top and bottom on this one.

Better picture from Revisor....
http://www.revisor-solingen.de/asset...s/db_b__3_.jpg


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Revisors "much" better picture than the one I took tonight of the 5-0002 model with the Green paint and Gold wash....
http://www.revisor-solingen.de/asset...ages/db_29.jpg

And the GOTTA...

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Jimps on top on the GOTTA.

I shaved tonight with the Blue Extra Hollow 5-0027 and the GOTTA. The GOTTA won hands down at the moment over the Revisor. That is one of the sharpest, smoothest shaves I have ever gotten! I would be hard pressed to improve on the edge with honing. The Revisor "Extra Hollow" 5-0027 model though, I think it could use just a touch up on the hones and try again. It was shave ready in that I could shave with it, but there was a bit more pull with it than the GOTTA. Also even though it shaved close, the GOTTA came back in and picked up things. I would swear that the GOTTA was more extra hollow than Full Hollow, but then I could be imagining it as well. Both are ground extremely thin for a long duration of the blade.

Impressive to say the least. Next will try the Green Revisor, 5-0002 for shave.

You gotta be kidding me ! I'm green with envy ! Beautiful haul you've got there Vern. Enjoy them. :tu

Thanks Jimmy, when I visited with Thomas about getting another razor he had mentioned in an email a discount since he messed up and sent me the wrong color I had originally had on the invoice. I figured it would cost less to buy 2 now and combine the shipping as that is kind of what drives the prices up on these razors from Germany. Well, he felt bad about the blue razor and that it had flaked off a bit on the paint and sent me an offer I couldn't refuse. Discount on the 2 razors, the GOTTA, and Revisor Extra Hollow and sent along the green painted one for free. I couldn't get into paypal quick enough!! Only other great deal of a great shaver 5/8 is the Imperial razor I got from a guy selling off his Father's Estate (who collected razors) and the son is a wine connoisseur. I gave him a bottle of Ice Wine and he shipped me this Imperial... NEW. Never been honed, bright shining, and after I honed it and stropped it, it was a TERRIFFIC shaver. I've shaved with it 3 times now and every time, a great shave, no nicks and smooth cutting. Must be getting my honing down a bit better as well.. THANKS to all of you.

Ya have to admit, you don't run across a GOTTA in this kind of shape on eBay... like NEW shape. I was the first to strop and shave with it tonight. She's my baby!!

Now I need to get a GOTTA signature on the bottom.. LOL

Congrats, Gibbs!
I also bought a razor there and was impressed about the good service.
Have fun.

Very very nice.

Gibbs,

Very nice :)

I have three (3) Gotta 120s, and they are stunning shavers :)

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

That extra hollow revisor with the blue scales is sweet, seen it on their website. Too bad it didn't shave that great the first time out. You'll have to give us an update after you hone it a bit.

I've got to get me one of those new revisors at some point. Nice haul!

Please double check the address on the package.
I cannot imagine how my dream razors got delivered to
someone else. ;)

Enjoy.

Very nice. So you have the green AND blue Revisor now? Or was the one you exchanged different from the blue razor in the photos?

Either way, I hope they shave just as good as they look!

I have the Green 5-0002 and the Blue 5-0003 now. The Blue one looked like it had a spot on it but the paint had flaked off and I asked Thomas what color paint that they used so that I might "touch" it up just a bit there. They have the same logo on the face of the blade, but the Blue one I have shaved on several times and it's a dream for shaving, let me tell you! I thought it would be hard to match, until I shaved with the GOTTA 120. I'll touch up the blue revisor a bit, and try the Green one before I even mess honing it. It may be just as good as the Blue one as is.
Thanks for the compliments on the razors, folks!! For one that never held a straight razor (for shaving.. LOL) it has been quite the learning adventure and certainly a lot of fun along the way, meeting new friends and new razors. I hope to keep meeting new friends. And I share, as I would think that you would like to see some examples of things still out there and attainable, and how much influence you ALL have had on me... and of course the razors.....

I need to add something. The Blue and Geen look exactly alike from the front, same marking on the blade (design) just a color change EXCEPT the new one has something I had talked to Thomas about before. The new "Green" Revisor has file jimps on both top and bottom and they look freshly cut. Perhaps they had put them in or found one that already had one. Either way, they are different just because of the jimps.

You will also notice on the picture provied by Revisor that the 5-0027 "Extra Hollow Ground" razor (one with blue schales) does not have jimps on the bottom. Yet this one does. BOTH new revisors have jimps top and bottom.

Color me jealous! Those razors are beautiful. Man...I'd love to get a few of those Revisor's. I gotta stop spending money on hunting and ammunition though! :P

Wow!
It must have felt like Christmas morning when them beauties arrived.
Congratulations on some great new additions to the den:)

Yes, it was like Christmas. I got my Spring bonus and my wife insists I buy something for me and not the house all the time. Only so many whiskers on my face.....looking.....hmmmm cat's asleep. LOL Behold "The Lion!" LOL Seriously I tried to shave with both Revisor Extra Hollow Ground 5-0027 and the GOTTA, and ended up liking the smoothness of the GOTTA so much I finished with it... 2 passes. I bet I get that Revisor in great shape though. Maybe even kiss it lightly with my Belgian Coticule with water only. Maybe even some newsprint paper. Old timey ways, but they did work.

Very nice, Vern, congrats! I was fairly indifferent to Revisors until your recent enthusiasm (and pics!) made me change my mind. I'll have to get my hands on one someday.

Best regards,

Ryan

UPDATE: Honed BOTH the Revisor with blue handle "Extra Hollow Ground" and the the 5/8 "Solingen Extra" tonight. I looked at the blue handled model on the blade with a 20X Lupe and saw that a few mm down from the toe that there was a spot that the edge was up and down, like hills and valleys, where the rest of the razor edge was even and smooth. That alone might have been a problem. Noticed also on the Green background Revisor "Solingen Extra" that it, too, had a small imperfection at the blade edge. Having a 20X Lupe really helps out to see what the edges are looking like. I had to go to my green DMT to get down to the material that removed the "imperfection" and went up from there, on both, making sure the blades were hair cutting sharp at the 1000 grit level before moving on. Finished on a 12K and stropped. I shaved with both (blue handle and the green "Solingen Extra". BOTH were on par with the other Revisor (blue background on blade) as well as the GOTTA 120. Smooth trouble free shave, no nicks not cuts and no cuts on the ear lobes either, like I sometimes get when I use the 6/8 DOVO.... Speaking of DOVO, I got in the 5/8 "Best Quality" DOVO today, factory fresh, and will give it a nice hone job before trying it out, maybe tomorrow or Thursday. Little smaller than the 6/8 and I like that in my preferences.

That is a very nice bunch of razors you have there. I don't own any revisors at this point, but I did have the opportunity to shave with one a little while back, and it delivered a jaw dropping shave.

Revisor is definitely on the WTB list.

Shaved with the "Green" background tonight and did some comparing with it to the GOTTA and the blue Handled "Extra Hollow Ground". GOTTA is super, and so is the other two Revisors, giving clean, close and smooth shaves. When I got all done, I noticed something during clean up. I clean the razors, and run toilet paper through the handle to make sure no water remains, then I strop them 20-30 times. There is a spot on the 3" wide strop that was a nick that I sanded out and it's still there, and a razor going over it, gives a sort of sound like sippp, sippp sippp, etc except for the GOTTA. When it hits that spot I hear a "ping" and sounds almost every time, ... ping, ping, ping, ping...so on. I could tell which one I was stropping with a blind fold on from just that sound. Odd huh?

Did I mention that the Revisors gave FANTASTIC shaves?? I don't want you to miss that little detail. Face feels like it did when I was 12 with out even any peach fuzz. LOL

Ryan, wish you were closer, we'd meet up and you could have a go at the Revisor for shaving!

I wonder what is the cat on a branch symbol on the reverse side of the blue handeled "Extra Hollow Ground" all about? It is certainly way different than the other 2 revisors that say "Solingen Extra", which are 1/1 Hohl. meaning Full Hollow ground.

Was there a large difference in dates (recent or near past) of the Revisor that has the C. FRIEDR. SCHMIDT - SOLINGEN on the right side of the tang, along with that mountain lion on the tree branch? The Blue handeled one is the only one with that distinction, and the others do not have that. They simply say SOLINGEN made in Germany.

Nice razor