Thread: Christmas razor showdown - What did you get ???

A couple pucks of shave soap I haven't tried and a custom cedar display case that my dad made for me. I'll post pictures in the next couple of days.

Nice plane, Christian! What say you hone up that iron and give it a once around your face before trying for shavings so thin you can read through them?

And don't you DARE tell me that you won't use your Shapton ceramics to hone plane irons and will only use them for razors. No foolin, that would be blasphemy.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Chris L

Nice plane, Christian!
And don't you DARE tell me that you won't use your Shapton ceramics to hone plane irons and will only use them for razors. No foolin, that would be blasphemy.

Chris L

Well, you are right there of course... those Shaptons are meant for honing A2 steel for sure.... that said though, I've got this ol' Norton 4k/8k that is rather lonely so it gets to do the lions share of the woodworking stuff right now. Still, if I have some ornary extra figured wood that needs smoothing, I'll go the extra step and grab the 16k Shapton AND my Chrome Ox micro film, just to make it sing....

As for shaving with them... uh... that's a solid 3/16" thick RC 60-62 blade ground to 25 degrees for end grain work, the other is at 38 degrees... both would be rather wedge like and probably not quite up to my standard for shaving. Shaves wood just fine though!

I DID get a nice brush a short while ago, one of those Simpson Colonel brushes... darn nice, but I had to pay for it myself so it's not technically a Christmas gift...... <sigh>

Christian

band saw, bench belt/disc sander, and bench grinder/buffer with compound.

Big ass cabnet Craftsman table saw with a biesmeyer fence. Will be ripping trim for the log home which we moved into the weekend before Chirstmas. Still not done though.

Don

The razors are still on their way. But I got a new strop an a brush stand

A 7/8 Puma #89 coming from Don, along with a leather dovo two razor case. These will join my other #89, probably my best (I had to cover the wonderedge's ears) non-custom shaver, for a KILLER set. Should be here anytime soon.

Christmas was slim around here. I got a set of Elixir acoustic guitar strings, a couple of books on cd, and a dvd of tv westerns. I did give my brother in law a wet shaving set, mug, brush, soap (all VDH) and a gold Gillette tech as well as a few sample bottles of Ogallala Bay Rum a/s to my him and my brother.

let me know if you ever want to sell that razor earthdawn it would look great in my shave room

Merry Christmas to me! Please excuse shaky pic,I am learning the digital camera and photobucket, an old dog, very new tricks!