Thread: If you could only keep one straight razor

This bad boy right here...it is the smoothest shaver I own...and I have no problem putting a wicked edge on it with my limited honing skills !!!!

My Wheatly Brothers Wheat Sheaf (Sheffield) in 6/8 -- because of its heft, size, grind, original scales and pins, its patina, its "persona"

Thiers-Issard Special Coiffeur 5/8. Nothing fancy; everything good.

My home made custom, shaves like no other razor and never seems to loose its edge !
Almost sold it when I first made it due to finances but so glad I didn't.

I've seven razors and if i could keep only one of them any would do as they all give an equally good shave. However i like wedges and framebacks that aren't too big so it would probably be either some of my wedges or Fiskars frameback (it's the only frameback i have these days).

As it is among the Best Allrounder i have in my Collection, my 13/16" Heinrich Klein "Chronik" 1/1 Hollow would be the only
that would keep.

That is a difficult question to answer.
My first Filarmonica EPBD, my first custom, My first Heljestrand or perhaps my First Puma..
I could go on and on really.
All razors I have provides great shaves, so most any of them would do.
The ones I didn't like, has been given away

I'm with Bernando - I've fiddled with every razor that I've ever owned until I found what it needed to be a great shaver. I suspect that most of us do something like that. Now as to what might be my favorite, well, every month or so I will pull out an old friend that I have not used for a while and it will become my favorite for a time. So if I had to pick the One Razor, I'd have to point and say "One of those."

rs,
Tack