Thread: Just back from Hungary and a visit with Master Flaschner

Hello All,

I am new to this forum and a newbie with straight razor shaving. I know Carazor very well and he is the one who turned me onto straight razor shaving. I love it.

I was in Hungary on business for the last 12 days and found a wonderful razor shop just right down the street from my hotel in Budapest. I was looking for any European straight razor and I got two beauties on the first day not knowing what they were.

I contacted Carazor and he told me he contact a member here who told him the only shop in town was Kalvin Flaschner's aand he was the finest razor maker in Hungary and Eastern Europe, and I should go there. I map quested it and was shocked to see it was very close to my hotel as well.

I was even more shocked when I went to the address and it was the same shop I had been at the day before! But this time Master Flaschner was there as well!

We went over everything and he showed me a giant straight razor, made in 1850 that was decoration purposes and was perfect in every regard right down to the edge )

I picked up one for Cazor( he posted the pics) and got a beauty with Master Flaschners family tree on it that was extremely rare. He showed me a poster of his family tree that was the same as on the razor. I'm not sure what the scales are made of but he seemed to suggest it was bone or tusk. Sorry ,I am a total newbie at this and I was out of my gourd happy just to find the place.

I was in razor heaven and coudn't stop myself from going back again the next day and picking up the oldest razor he had for sale which he said was over 100 years old and in the first production out for his family's blade. He doesn't speak English and I don't speak Hungarian and his shop manager spoke a bit so we pieced things out.

I finished up with another Flaschner 5/8" with beautiful wooden scales that was very clean.

here's the pics:[/IMG]

my first two buys


close up


a big surprise




the makers mark


More pics in the next post