Thread: 7 day Weck Sextoblade set

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..

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

Originally Posted by ruday555

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..

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.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Interesting. For years I shaved tattoo customers (the tattoo area) with one of those.

+1 for clarifying.

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.

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