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I bought this set a while back and just got to honing the blades and shaving with this set. I must say it is an amazingly good shaver. I am just wandering if anyone else has tried a shave with this particular razor? The set is very clean and looked new and marked on the handle July 27,09.. Attachment 128282
The Weck razors were patented in 1909 but they were in production at least until the 1960s and maybe later. The latest Wecks were used mainly in hospitals to prep patients for surgical procedures. I have two of the seven-day sets and about twenty other assorted Wecks. It was one of my first razors and I used them quite a lot. I never used the safety guards, preferring the bare blade. But the shaves were always good and they were easily maintained. It's been several years since I have used one of my Wecks, but I might break one out tomorrow - just for old time's sake.:)
Regards - Walt
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Originally Posted by ruday555
Did you say you honed the blades? Most people use Fromm or Personna shaper blades in these, but I've thought of trying to use it to learn to hone with those disposable blades. How did the Weck do when you were honing it?
Interesting. For years I shaved tattoo customers (the tattoo area) with one of those. I found the old vintage blades better than the personnas but neither good enough to enjoy shaving my face. I never thought of honing them.
Believe it or not but they hone just like a straight razor. There is enough steel on the vintage blades to hone them really good. I don't use the safety guard I use them like a straight and they shave really well.
+1 for clarifying.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
Most of the straight/safety razors from the early part of the 1900s (i.e. Weck, Durham, Litt. Landers Frary & Clark, Curley, etc.) could all be honed and stropped like their non-safety cousins. The Durham razors required a special honing attachment, but the rest functioned like a normal straight razor. Because of the detachable safety comb, many people are under the misconception that these are hair thinners, beard trimmers or have some other function. But they were manufactured, marketed and sold as a razor for shaving the face.
Regards - Walt
Here are some pics of the blades I have honed and shaved with. I have used a 4000/8000 norton and then a thuringian hone followed by canvas strop and final leather stropping. All the blades passed the HHT test with flying colors and shaved very close and smoothly. Also with previous shaving experience, they seem to hold an edge real well, just a few pre stropping and good to go.Attachment 133026Attachment 133025
I think you can find replacement blades for Weck razors which are made in Germany.
Thanks for starting this thread. I was unaware of the Sextoblade and that there was a replaceable blade that was designed to be honed. I'll be looking to add one of these to my collection.
I assume you honed these as usual - with the spine and bevel both flat on the hone. If so, the geometry looks wrong and it's as if a honing attachment was required. However, it seems to have worked. I have a 7 day Heljestrand SE razor with hollow ground blades - these come with a honing guide that holds the blade at the right angle and produces the kind of tiny bevel you see on quality straights.
Do you know the brand?Quote:
Originally Posted by ferroburak
I'm having trouble finding replacement blades at an affordable price in Europe.
I bought some 'shaper blades' made in Japan but they do not fit my sextoblade, they just fall out.
Just shaved with mine he other day. I have used the Personna Hair Shaper Blade with great success. If that was the brand you used I don't know what to say. The Personna fits snuggly in my Weck. Try beauty supply stores or web sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drakuun
The cheapest I found are Personna hair shaper blades in a dispenser.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razorfeld
10.50USD for 20 pieces, that's a bit more than 50 cents each.
I also have Derby blades which shave just as fine as the blades for the sextoblade.
4.90USD for 100 pieces, that's a bit less than 5 cents each.
The difference in price is more than 10x...
I understand that there is less steel in the Derby blades, but it doesn't justify this much of a difference in price.
The Derby blades however are more difficult to install, that's why I prefer to use the Weck razor.
The Weck razor also has a much better grip and feel.
Paying 10x more for the blades however is not a good alternative.
I often use mine on longer trips, I have bought vintage week blades and Fromm and Personna. They all seem to shave about the same. I really like this razor because it is the same weight and feel of a straight razor, and it shaves quite well. I have never analyzed the blade costs.
I earlier purchased some cost effective 'injector' blades from Japan which have a thicker back end.
Turns out they are not suitable for the sextoblade because the back end is too thin to keep it in place, the blade falls out.
So it seems that disposable blades are not exactly categorized under clear names.
It's difficult to find the right blade for your razor, isn't there any chart or lookup tool for this?
Shouldn't be too hard I would guess, just the razor brand, type and maybe year of manufacturing and the type of blades it could support.
Even when I look at blade listings on ebay the seller doesn't mention for which type of razor they can be used for :/ bad marketing imho.
I'm not gonna play darts and buy blades until I have the right ones : )
Would be awesome if I could just use the Weck razor, it has a good grip and shaves nicely.
Used a Parker razor with Derby blades yesterday but the handle is a bit slippery and I accidentally nicked a thingy off, blood was gushing out.
I used to use the Weck for shaving the tattoo area on customers before I retired from the business. I used the Personna blades Richard mentioned in the post above. I also used to buy vintage Weck blades, as well as other brands of the same type on ebay once in awhile. They worked very well if they were new old stock, and weren't expensive years ago. Usually they were better than the Personnas.
The sextoblade is one of my favorite razors. It probably gets used the most out of all my razors. As has been said the old weck blades are hone able. They really take a nice edge very easily. I always start on the 4k with them. Then 8k and finish on a surgical black ark. Leaves a very nice edge. The blade geometry is perfect for honing the blades. If you need to majorly re work a blade I would recommend taping the spine to protect it. As to learning to hone with the sextoblade I would say its a good option it responses similarly to honing a Frameback razor. Also if you look around you can find all different blades from complete trashed to nos to play with for relatively cheap
As to current production hair shaper blades I found the most cost effective were Diane hair shaper blades from japan. Got them on amazon forget the exact price.
Think I found a good solution as the Diane hair shapers only seem to be sent from outside EU risking customs costs.
How about these? Personna hair shaper blades, if I get 120 blades they will be 36 pence each (roughly 51 eur cent each)
Personna Stainless Hair Shaper Blades
They also carry "gem" Personna blades, much cheaper but I'm not sure they are meant to be used for shaving.
So many choices in single blade land...easy to make the wrong choice.
GEM by Personna Stainless Coated Single Edge Razor Blades
I don't think that the GEM blades are the right size. I have the Fromm blades right now and have had Personna blades. They both work fine.
The gem blades won't fit the weck. They are for the de style single edge razors that were made by the company gem
I just got a Weck. I am at work right now so i am not sure if it is a Sextoblade or one of the other but same principle. I ordered some Personna single blade razors for it. Originally it belonged to my wife's great uncle. It still had a 3 Weck blade in it that was pretty oxidized. The personna blades were the only ones I found recommended for it so I got them. I wasn't sure what else would work. I figured technically any single blade razor would fit but I don't know if I need a 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 inch blade. I think these are 2 1/2. I would think the main thing was having the folded over part on the butt of the blade so that there would be enough tension. Double sided blades or utility type blades would most likely just fall out.
I hope I am thinking right on that.
It's hard to tell if those are the right ones or not. Personna makes both types of single edge blades. There are two types. The ones you want are longer and narrower than the regular single edge blades.
Yeah, it is like since Weck pretty much stopped selling to the public in the 60s or something the internet is pretty sparse with information. I tried looking up the specific model name but haven't even seen a picture that resembles this thing. None of the razor blades look like the one that was in it, but the ones I got sound about right. It was said in the comments and the questions and answers area that they work in a Weck of some sort and the picture of the one that was recommended looked similar to mine but with a guard.
Worst case it may not be as narrow which won't be the end of the world. It should hold it pretty tightly.
Pretty much any hair shaper blade that will fit the Fromm hair shaper will fit a weck sextoblade, medical prep razor or full size weck hair shaper. Weck did make a mini hair shaper that took a smaller length.
Yeah it fit perfectly. I liked the feel of it but I cut myself all kinds of up with it. Mainly not taking enough time with it. I am going to try again. Probably tonight. I am in need of a shave again and since that one gave me the most trouble I figure I should try again until I don't get nicks. Then I can kind of rotate a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Castel33
I will try stroping it too since I would be much less concerned about messing up that blade and the technique should be similar.
