Quote Originally Posted by Badgister View Post
The question is, should I actually shave with this thing?
I know the feeling. I have a couple of 7 day sets that have never touched water or skin. OTOH, I ask myself if I am a curator for a museum or an end user of straight razors ? Generally if I can't shave with a razor, smoke a beautiful tobacco pipe, I'm not interested. As noted above, there are exceptions.

Beautiful piece. Are those scales metal with the cloisonné inlays ? If so, how is the balance ? IME metal scales tend to be a bit heavy.