Thread: In my mail today.

Look what I got today. This old handmade razor, probably made by a blacksmith. Still very sharp, I´l not polish or clean it just refresh the edge and hopefully enjoy the shave it gives.
Why an SRP-logo razor when I got the original???? ( just kidding)

That is quite the smile. Let us know how she shaves.

That is quite interesting!

Would you care to share more of the story behind it if you know any?

pretty old thing she is i hope she still shaves well, just hink if this old girl could talk the stories she would have, besides in a winey girls voice( from the day i was made i was stuffed in a box and was forced to shave this old man repedily and then he would put me back in the dark scary box and i would wait and wait to be loved again, and once he died i was left all alone for many years just wanting a face to shave and hands to hold me and love me again )

I shure will as soon as I´ve got it properly honed.

It is sure is unique

You can tell..your razor is VERY proud of itself...

nice beautiful smile, congrats.

Looks like a true one of a kind razor, very cool.

Well. As I said. Now she´s honed and stropped.
Did my first shave with this old lass and she smiled and smiled and smiled to me. She was so happy that she had been taken care of.
The shave was not at all what I´d expected. She said be gentle or I might bite you, and she slide gently over my face. And gone was the beard. I was expecting it to be a little rough but no it wasn´t.
The man who made this straight sure knew his steel. It can´t be the first time that he made a knife.
I wrote to the lady who sold it. Her answer was that it probably was her grandfather that made it.
His name was Elof Lindahl and he was living in a small village in the Northern part of Sweden. Tvaeroebyn in region Burtaesk in Westbothnia.
There he had farm with a little smithy and probably made the knife in it. Elof Lindahl is since long gone dead and so is the sellers mom.
But she promised me to try to find out some more on this knife and her grandpa.

This razor will probably be one of my favorites.