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Yup, it's a Bismarck, and yes it is priced quite high. And so was the Renaissance.

My new "tosuke" is finally honed, I'll give it a maiden voyage this weekend...:)

Bah!

Avert thine eyes! Wait a week or two and you'll see a Tosuke with toned down tips!

Damned if I'll risk lacerating my face with a double spiked razor, just because that's the way it came...

It did/does not pass my shave-ready testing, so it shall not go near my face.

And it won't either until I tone down the spikey tips too!

I tried stropping it up quite a bit, but it isn't...

^ What he said.

What I was surprised by is how the tip looks not just aymetrical, but the convex swoop of it looks a bit like the airfoil shape of a plane's wing.

Cool!


And I know...

I was at the wrong store yesterday! It was at the opposite end of the street and around the corner....

Today I found Sidney's store and had a score!

Lookie, lookie....:rock:



I know...

Oh, forgot to mention they also had a terrific array of hones, both natural (a couple in the >$1,000 range), and synthetic. There was a synthetic 10k hone that I was pondering, but I decided to stick...

I just got back from visiting Sidney Kidney's Japanese razor emporeom.


Well, it's more of a knife heaven, to tell the truth. Fantastic array of slicers and dicers, folded steel knives that'd...

Was it a knife store, or an antiques store?

I travel to Japan 1-2 times a year to Osaka. Kyoto is a 45 minute train ride away.

I had thought to peruse the byways of Kyoto to see what I could...