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You'll probably have more luck by starting your own thread with the title "I'm looking for a new blue grip for my old kamisori". Your post won't get seen much in this 1 year old thread about Iwasaki...

Yup, it's in the list. That's where I find a lot of them. Sometimes the prices for them can get a bit silly on that auction website. It seems like many of them are listed by 3rd parties who buy them...

I thought I'd update this thread in the unlikely event that anyone else is as obsessed with these marvelous razors as I am:p. I've found a few more Iwasaki Western Straight Razors out in the wild....

I finally spoke with Harrelson Stanley yesterday evening regarding the provenance of my razor. He was incredibly gracious with his time. He told me that he purchased the knife through Masayoshi...

I was clearing out my old voicemails shortly before Christmas, and I found that I had a voicemail from Harrelson Stanely (the man who originally sourced my razor)! Apparently he was in Japan for...

I did a bit of searching over the weekend to find other examples of these knives to see if I could piece together a chronology of when they were made. I'll preface this by saying please don't flame...

I guess it's true what the say: "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy"... :)

I'll do a quick "find & replace" before future posts so it's less...

I've been emailing with Mr. Takeshi Aoki in hopes of getting an estimate of the date of manufacture of my razor. It sounds as though he's handled about as many Iwasaki razors as anyone; by my count...

Now I'm really intrigued. I googled Takeshi & A-Frames Tokyo and see that he still has a lot of Iwasaki razors. If he was able to date yours, he may be able to date mine. I'm also going to follow up...

I'm scared to even handle the damn thing now let alone put it on my stones. :dropjaw: I've always been leery of even honing it, and that was before I knew what it was. Dovo's are good enough for a...

Sharptonn: I guess I can see why you'd think I'm making this up since I just signed up and don't have many posts under my belt. I see what you mean about the circle and 3 line kanji looking skewed....

"In any case, the tip of the razor looks suspiciously modified, or is it just me?
Is it (heaven forbid!) the same razor? A pic of the tang-stamp on the razor in-hand, please?"

It's the same razor...

I spoke with my brother regarding how he came by the razor. Here is what he said:

My brother decided around 2000 that he was going to buy me an extraordinary gift (that's a long story in and of...

@Entropy1049: Thanks so much for the links to Iwasaki biographical info and to the book by Kousuke Iwasaki; I've already started reading through it. I'm thrilled to have so much biographical...

That's an beautiful pair of razors! They look just like mine.

I looked up kanji's for numbers 1-10 and it looks like your black one is 1676 vs my 1901, which I guess makes yours quite a bit older....

Amazing! Thanks for translating that! Here are pictures of the front and the back of the paper. I'm not sure whether there is anything useful, it just looked like scrap paper to me. The back is blank...

Mainaman: I'm amazed that you were able to identify it so quickly! I wasn't sure I was going to be able to identify it all without getting in touch with Harrelson Stanley. It sounds like Mr. Stanley...

I received a beautiful handmade Japanese straight razor as a gift from my brother 15 years ago. When I received it, I didn't really understand what he was giving me; all I knew is that it was the...