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08-02-2012, 12:18 AM #1Member
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Newly honed and ready to go
Here is a recent acqusition from ebay, a Norvell-Shapleigh Magnetic with light bulb engraving, finger notches, red wedge, and a Geneva Cutlery Company "1903" Pyramid that my mother-in-law gave me when she found out about my new hobby/obsession. I also got a estate sale find Genco Warranted that is in work.Wullie likes this.
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08-02-2012, 04:36 PM #2Junior Member
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Nice. Have been kind of curious, what kind of reputation do razors from Geneva Cutlery have? I've been pining over some of them on eBay a bit, since Geneva NY is fairly close to where I currently live and even closer to where I was born.
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08-02-2012, 05:02 PM #3Senior Member
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Geneva/Genco razors have a club here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...enco-pura.html
Originally Posted by chrisvine
They are good shavers.“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein)
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08-02-2012, 06:22 PM #4'tis but a scratch!
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Yep, Gencos are great shavers--very hard steel, which means you can hone them out on finer hones (16k or more) and they'll hold that edge. Softer steels will crumble when you try to make them that fine. My own Genco, when I finally got a hone that would do it justice, made my jaw drop. Then we got the tendons reattached... ;-) Originally Posted by chrisvine
Better still, there were zillions made so they're relatively inexpensive. Probably the best bang-to-buck ratio for vintage blades. As far as shopping online, I generally recommend that folks look on our Classifieds, where if a seller says a blade is shave-ready, then it probably is.
Other New York steels are also supposed to be relatively hard and good shavers.
Best wishes and happy shopping."These aren't the droids you're looking for." "These aren't the droids we're looking for." "He can go about his business." "You can go about your business."
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08-02-2012, 08:01 PM #5Junior Member
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Good to hear, because as soon as I saw that picture I bid on and won a Geneva Cutlery "The Improved Eagle Razor."
Have been looking for an excuse to break out the tools and try my hand at making some scales.
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08-03-2012, 05:48 PM #6Member
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Shaves fantastic. Managed to drop the shapleigh and break the tip....
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