Thread: Puma variations: Puma / Pumaster Steel

Originally Posted by Scarface Germany

FS= For Sale, clear to me
What does BST stand for?

Cheerio

BST=the 'Buy, Sell, Trade' forum here on StraightRazorPlace (SRP)

-whatever

-Lou

Lou beat me to explaining BST... WHATEVER

Thanks for your thoughts on the stainless rule. I think (but may be wrong) that there are carbon razors that are about as hard and also PITA to hone but they are actually some of the best shavers and nobody would advise against buying them.

Cheers
Ivo

BST = Buy/Sell/Trade Ok, thanx.
Would have figured that out myself ..... sooner or later......

No, I don´t want to sell or trade it anymore!
I am rather thinking of visiting the store I bought it at again and purchase the last one they might have left there.
That way I could stash one of them away and maybe sell it later.
I was just confused because I have bought two other Pumas there which I wanted to sell. They are c-steel made but no one even asked for the price?

There is not much info to find on how many of what kind of razors Puma has manufactured.
So I guess the Pumaster-Inox is a little more rare?
I can´t even date back exactly fram what date on the Pumas were manufactured by DOVO?
As said, I have not been into PUMA very much. The offers on Ebay always become way to expensive for me to buy one. Specially those ones that would interest me.

Izlat, I can´t agree on that.
Maybe I just have not found one of those c-steel razors you are talking about and until finding that Pumaster-Inox I thought the Henckels Friodur was the biggest PITA there could possibly be found.
Maybe you could give me a hint to the manufacturers of those PITA c-steel brands?

Originally Posted by Scarface Germany

I thought the Henckels Friodur was the biggest PITA there could possibly be found.

I agree with you 100% on this, at least among regular commercial razors.

Originally Posted by DMS

I agree with you 100% on this, at least among regular commercial razors.

By now I do not own any customs.
But I am having an eye on Mr. Chandler....

Originally Posted by Scarface Germany

By now I do not own any customs.
But I am having an eye on Mr. Chandler....

Joe's razors are outstanding in both form and function, I'm very pleased with the one he just finished for me.

Originally Posted by izlat

What can I say - Lynn was selling minty (if I am not wrong, but they surely looked very nice) stainless steel 5/8 Pumas here for $150... You will have to do some searching in the BST section, or just PM Lynn. He might even have one left.

I got one of them :-)

The old no-stainless rule I think came about because stainless hones differently from carbon steel. Nowadays this isn't as big a deal because we're used to it, but I suspect it came as a real shock when they were first introduced.

They are a little trickier to hone, but the edge lasts longer. A bigger deal is that stainless feels (and sounds) a little scratchier on your face than carbon steel - the "sounds" bit is probably more significant IMO.

I think the Henckels Friodurs are better than my Puma INOX though.

Ok, here´s a pic of the razor I was writing about.
It´s the one at the bottom of the picture.

The upper one is a Puma 222 5/8 Silber Pumaster-Steel.

Both are NOS.
Does anybody have a realistic idea of at what price those usually sell at?

Originally Posted by mparker762

I got one of them :-)

The old no-stainless rule I think came about because stainless hones differently from carbon steel. Nowadays this isn't as big a deal because we're used to it, but I suspect it came as a real shock when they were first introduced.

They are a little trickier to hone, but the edge lasts longer. A bigger deal is that stainless feels (and sounds) a little scratchier on your face than carbon steel - the "sounds" bit is probably more significant IMO.

I think the Henckels Friodurs are better than my Puma INOX though.

Sorry, I don´t get it?
Do you think the Friodurs have better shaving qualities or are they just not such a PITA to sharpen as the Pumaster-Inox?

A few months ago Lynn offered these three razors for sale for $150 each:



(I got the one in the upper right)

I would guess somewhere between $150 and $200 for a NOS example. The 6/8 would go for considerably more (somewhere in the $200's?) since the larger sizes seem to be substantially less common.