Originally Posted by
Jgreenepa
Gem razors are terrific. I have a 1912, MMOC, MMCP, G-Bar, and a Featherweight. All are great shavers. But I would like to also make folks aware of another fantastic vintage razor that is cheap and an incredible shaver. I'm talking about about the Auto Strop Razors. The nice thing about these razors is that if you choose to use carbon steel Gems or Feathers in them you can strop them and get an amazing number of shaves out of them. I'm a real fan of these razors and have been shaving with them for almost two decades. My father used to use a Valet Auto Strop VC4, that's the only model with a safety bar, all other models have Open Combs. There are three classes of Auto Strop razor. The first two classes A and B take Gem blades in addition to the Valet Auto Strop NOS blades still available out there. The C class consists of 5 models all of which are spectacular shavers. Only the first, the VC1, takes Gem blades,but all the others work with Valet blades or Feathers. The VC4 model with the safety bar represents over 40 years of incremental improvements, and is an incredible shaving razor. That razor routinely delivers BBS head shaves for me when I use it.