Thread: The Torrey Razor Co.

I seen that one too. One of the later stamps if my reserch is right. Thanks for showing. Your RAD is only 3 yrs? Hope 8 can keep mine too a minamum compared to yours. Ha. Thanks Mike

I picked up one almost just like yours on eBay. I believe this one may be a little older than yours since it does not say US or USA on it.

If I'm right it was made somewhere between 1880 and 1894.
I didn't do a full restoration on it. it seemed fairly clean except for one pitted area toward the point on the backside. Someone had started to go after it with some fairly coarse sandpaper which took a little work to remove the marks from. I didn't want to get too aggressive with it so I didn't bring that all the way out.
Like yours there is no wedge at the heel of the scales. They are just somewhat raised in the molding.

I bought a whole lot of 6 mainly for this razor but I'm not really in love with the way it shaves. The quarter and half hollow-grounds feel a little stiff to me. The more hollow the better as far as I'm concerned. I may need to do a little more work on the bevel though. After cleaning it up I ran 100 laps on 220, 100 on 1000 and then did the pyramid progression on the 4K / 8K then 50 laps on the 12K.

There is also the buggy whip logo for Torrey, that I have on a blade that is somewhere. Once I get home, maybe I can locate it.

Buggy whips and straight razors huh? I don't want to know that much about what he liked to do in his personal life. Sounds a little kinky to me though.
Seriously though I've never seen the buggy whip but I did get this one in the same lot with the other one.

I haven't cleaned it up yet but it's got a lot of hone wear. The box is pretty worn too but it has some symbol on the lid that I can't quite make out. It looks like initials but I'm just not really seeing it. Cool that they saved the insert though.

Too bad it's worn off on one end.

I will have to find mine and see what it looks like today. Guessing i changed the scales...

Guessing this was one of my first half dozen restore jobs. Thanks for bringing this thread back up. It made me look thru my razors to find it.

I found a couple of my Torreys still hiding in the cigar box: only the sexiest ones make into my display case haha! (That mostly means curvy Sheffields!).

Both of mine say Worcester, Mass with the logo on the front of the tang; there is no stamp on the back side. Both are fine American shavers with interesting blade/grind profiles. Yeah, the bottom one has kind of grubby scales and the blade never got much more than Mother's and elbow grease from me-I just shave with some of them!

Mike-You like Torreys, FR Rattler Grinds AND Wosties! If you like Ators too, you could rule the universe.