Thread: Calling Sherlock Holmes

Originally Posted by Obie

Gentlemen:
This morning the angels held hands and blew me kisses as I shaved with the Gelle Freres New American razor. What an incredible shaver. The razor is a half hollow 11/16 with a barber's notch. The past few months I have shaved mostly with hollow razors — Puma, Schlieper, Schmidt, Schulze, LouPer, Thiers-Issard and others — all emitting the delicious scraping sound. Love them all. This one, since it is half hollow, was on the quiet side, which took a few moments to get used to, but I was already in love with it. I also have several Sheffields, but have not used them during this time. But the shave . . . Glorious. The brush was Saville Row 24 mm silvertip and the soap Martin de Candre and the strop Neil Miller shell cordovan. It's a sweet world, gentlemen, and it was a fine morning in the shave den with the Gelle Freres New American. Thanks to my good friend Martin, now I also know something about the history of this intriguing razor.

Well, that's sweet.. it certainly has "the look" and I'm sure that you gave it an edge to match. I must know -- did this razor simply appear out of thin air?

Originally Posted by stimpy52

Well, that's sweet.. it certainly has "the look" and I'm sure that you gave it an edge to match. I must know -- did this razor simply appear out of thin air?

In a way it did, my dear stimpy.

Very nice razor, Obie. I hope you can get a place for in your rotation. The frame back is really a stunning razor. I just know of a similar one , a Heljestrand, sold for 350 in 2009, on Ebay. Same smiling edge and swayback.