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Got the Geneva cleaned up and honed last night and got to shave with it. One word, "Outstanding!" Once again, I'm left wondering why American made razors don't have the same following as Sheffield...

Thinking of making some green canvas micarta for it. All depends on how motivated I am. :rofl2:

Now I really love this score. Went back to the farm where I bought them and asked about them, showing them the stamp on the Mag-Nam. Turns out that their Grandmother had a small barbershop in the...

I kind of expected these to break on me. The pin was pretty well rusted in the scales.

Got all of them unscaled though I broke the Engels scales getting the pin out. For me, 66% success rate is pretty damn good when removing scales.:)

I've got another day off work tomorrow. I may just have to run back out there and ask about it.:)

Started cleaning the razors and found something really cool on the back side of the tang on the Mag-Nam. Under the rust I found the remains of the back tang stamp. It says "Cooper & Totten Barbers...

About the same as the front side but without the price.:)

Stopped at a barn sale today and walked away with three straights and a barbers hone. The barbers hone is a Boss Barber that should clean up well afer some lapping. It looks a lot worse in the pic...