Thread: C.V. Heljestrand No. 10 with KB-extra mark

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Google "Heljestrand Excellens" and you get hundreds of hits - all referring back to one supplier, a Swedish shop called Gents.

Apart from their description all I see is that they have on their website photographs of one 4/8, or may be even smaller razor, with plastic scales and a chip and they are asking over $300 for it.

For that price even these days one should be able to get a pristine MK3? with ivory or if lucky even turtle shell.

So, yeah, unless that outfit can show a decent quantity with the exact same chip, or we get a real catalog photograph with a chip, or may be more razors from different sources with the exact same chip, I remain extremely skeptical about a 'notch'.
Anybody who knows how razors are made should be able to see the extreme foolishness of that thing from a manufacturing point of view.

I showed the pic to my wife. She said "it's broken". She is always right. Ask her, she shall tell you so!
Sad thing is, I must agree with her. Ohhhhh, it has been a hard day today!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I showed the pic to my wife. She said "it's broken". She is always right. Ask her, she shall tell you so!
Sad thing is, I must agree with her. Ohhhhh, it has been a hard day today!

Now, I see trouble right there! Did you also ask her 'Honey, can I buy this razor I really want?'
Sometimes, even if your wife is right it's best to not solicit her opinion

I'm sorry for the delay, I needed my beauty sleep.
I'm more sorry that I can't provide any document's but I've seen this model about three or four different times, both nos and used and all of them had notches.

Here is a link to one with black scales, a bit blurry but you should be able to make it out if you enlarge the picture.
http://www.prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?p=414357

Originally Posted by Baxxer

I'm sorry for the delay, I needed my beauty sleep.
I'm more sorry that I can't provide any document's but I've seen this model about three or four different times, both nos and used and all of them had notches.

Here is a link to one with black scales, a bit blurry but you should be able to make it out if you enlarge the picture.
C.V Heljestrand Exellens 12 mm - Rakknivar & Rakhyvel - Hitta lgsta pris, omdmen och information

I don't need beauty sleep Baxxer - I could sleep for a hundred years and I'd still be plain ugly!

I saw that photo - BUT - it links back to the Gents.com store if you click on the buy-it link.

I find it odd that the razor (the white-scaled one anyway) has only 'Heljestrand' and not the full name on it, despite the alleged age of the blank. I also find it odd that the shadow cast by the blade doesn't show a chip - funny things, shadows...

They are only little, inconsequential niggles, though. The bigger oddity is that the sleeve is for an 'MK' model - someone else's initials (Magnus Kindal), so why would Mr Andersson want a razor with someone else's initials on it? Unless the sleeve did not come with the razor, of course.

Regards,
Neil

Neal, I'd've been sceptical too if I were you.
When I first saw the one they sell on Gents a couple years ago I tried to dig up some info on the model but couldn't find anything until last fall when I saw one on Tradera(pretty much swedish ebay) that used to belong to some guy's relative(I think he might've been a barber), it was the "Excellens" model and it had the same notch.
I think that it would be a very strange coincidence if all these identical notches on the same model were accidental.

Shadows are funny indeed, but I think this was caused by the angle of the light.

The MK marking doesn't stand for Magnus Kindal, actually, I used to think that too.
It's a quality marking and it's short for "Mästerlig kvalitet"(masterly quality), "BK" is short for "Bästa kvalitet"(Best quality).
This still doesn't explain why the razor would come in a 'MK' marked sleeve, since the 'excellens' razor isn't an 'MK' marked razor but we see mismatched packaging for razors all the time so it doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.

I agree with everyone who pointed out that it seems stupid to have a notch there, maybe it was some kind of gimmick that was unsuccessful but what do I know?

Kind regards,
Max

The heel notches on the Baxxer-examples are not the same as on my Heljestrand.



It is possible that there was a chip on this blade and that they cut a piece of it: I still think the notch has an unnatural shape (my image shows that the curve on both sides is the same: based on the 3.7mm diameter circle.
The fact that more razors in this post have the same strange notch is remarkable.

I also asked the previous owner but he has no information either.

On the web I did not discover another Heljestrand no. 10....

Originally Posted by gugi

Apart from their description all I see is that they have on their website photographs of one 4/8, or may be even smaller razor, with plastic scales and a chip and they are asking over $300 for it.

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I'm going to send them an email and suggest they sell it "sight unseen" .......