Thread: Weight of all my razor

I decided to weigh my razor for your viewing pleasure. My first two razor feel good when you handle them, you can feel the weight, not too heavy and not too light.
When I got my 3rd one the Vintage Thiers Issard Silver Spartacus I felt as if it was much lighter than my first two razors. So I did a small investigation and here are my finding.
Enjoy

That's surprisingly consistent! We should open this up to find the lightest and heaviest 'real' razors in SPR members' collections.

Now I'm wondering who would have the largest (by mass) collection of razors!

I check the really heavy ones sometimes, just to get an idea..

IIRC the heaviest one in Factory Horn was a W&B 9/8 at 2.8 oz or 78.4 g

This does not include some of the new customs out there, as some of those are real bruisers in fact that was why I started weighing them in the first place.. I wanted a comparison to some of the customs that I was seeing...


The lightest 5/8 I have weighed is a Genco "Next" at 1.1 oz or 30.8 g I haven't weighed the 3/8 or 4/8's and I only weigh the ones that are NOS to give as true a Factory weight as possible

This is my W&B 8/8 FBU .... rescaled in walnut from horn pattern so weight should be similar to original .... 90g

Mike

I have a full wedge 1840's Greaves & Son's..I don't have a scale buy the seller told me 9oz..just the
blade

Originally Posted by Cangooner

That's surprisingly consistent! We should open this up to find the lightest and heaviest 'real' razors in SPR members' collections.

Now I'm wondering who would have the largest (by mass) collection of razors!

Easy.

SHARPTONN!!

Originally Posted by smalltank

I have a full wedge 1840's Greaves & Son's..I don't have a scale buy the seller told me 9oz..just the
blade

I believe the seller is mistaken,, 90 g maybe and that is a strech for just the blade..

In the pic below is a 7/8 W&B near full wedge that weighs 2.2 oz or 61.6 g in Micarta, next to it is the largest heaviest "razor" I have ever seen or held, and it really isn't a Razor, it is a Microtome, the size is outlandish, with a blade length of 4 full inches and it has SS scales that behemoth weighs in at a wrist breaking 5.2 oz or 145.6 g

No Longer have it but at 650Gms,largest I have ever had

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

No Longer have it but at 650Gms,largest I have ever had

Is that for carving turkeys?!

Originally Posted by ZeroCool

Is that for carving turkeys?!

Never mind carving, you could hunt turkeys with that thing!