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

My wife got me a Dovo Special 5/8 with imitation tortoise shell scales and a Rooney medium silvertip brush. I have been using them since they arrived. I have several str8s but this is my first shaveready. What an improvement over the others. Now to get my others honed.

I've had a small pure badger brush for years. This is my first Rooney and my first silver tip. I cannot believe the improvement.

Happy in NE Oregon,

Dave

You all got nice straights for Christmas. Hope you shaves are as great as the pictures of your razors are! Bill, what can I say? Your razor is extra special. You should send it around to all of us to break it in for you! Hope you all enjoy great shaves with your gifts for many years!

Dang it all..... looks like all I got were a pair of bloody safety razors, and they're damn awkward to shave with, but still.....I can get a good edge on them and they do shave smoothly.






They're actually the beginning of an indoor *heated* shop for me, my current shop is in an unheated garage and when it hits -40, it's not much fun so the compromise is that I can set up a small shop in the basement with hand tools only... no screaming, dust cloud generating machines! Suits me fine, I put down the electric shavers and took up the straight, I can do the same with my woodworking tools and I'll probably enjoy the hobby even more. The only fly in the ointment is that there goes my Confuser room, though I might just try to keep the computer in one corner with a smaller desk.

Christian

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.