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I just got this NOS Para Barbas Duras...I like the black scales, so whe won't be going to visit Max or Glen...
Here's the funny thing. This blade has been locked in some box for what, 50 some years? I open it up, test the blade, and it's pinging hairs like mad. Strop it up (normal routine, 10 linen, 30 rough horsehide, 30 cordovan) and the hairs just lie down and die.
I shaved with it tonight, and OH MAN, do I get what the fuss is all about. What a beauty...looks AND legs.
:dropjaw::dropjaw: WOW !!!! what a honey she is too...
Nice snag Jim...
Nice :bow....
looks amazing.
I wish the NOS I got from the Bay looked like this one impeccable.
Nice, very nice.
Darn RAD.........
Very nice Jim....
Holy crow! NOS!? Seriously nice snag there - and to think, it's been sharp for 50+ years just waiting for you to use it!
Great to see - I'm sure you'll really enjoy this one!
Mark
Well done, mate! I need to get something like that eventually, I am also Spanish after all!
I have exactly the same one and that is my experience too :beer1:
My favorite razor so far...
(...)"I told you":D!! A great Razor for a great guy!:D Even yesterday mine gived me a GREAT BBS like no other so far! Truly ORGASMIC!!! 10 linen, 20 rough horsehide, 20 cordovan..Kanayama Strop what else :)! The perfect pair!
Enjoy it for many many many years Jim!:tu
Welcome to the club Jim!
Take my word for it but the Palmera 14 and Filarmonica 13 Doble Temple are of the same caliber. :D
but still lack a certain... something...Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilian
Thanks very much, gentlemen...One shave seems fast, but wow, what a shave! I think it's a definite winner!
Filipe, thanks for giving me the chance!
Max, I'll keep them in mind...I actually had a Sub Cero, but no Doble Temple.
I still can't believe the edge--did anyone else have the same with an NOS?
Lordy lordy lordy, I want one of those things, I've heard tales of how good a shaver they can be, but they're all out of my price range, being a poor student and all. Maybe I'll win Lotto in the future and be able to buy one, until then I can only look and drool and congratulate those lucky enough to get such a pristine example as yours. Congratulations on your great find, I am exceedingly jealous.
Congratulations, Jim!!!
See if you can hold on to this one for more than a couple weeks, eh? Not like those other Fillies you got...
Or sell it to me when you're done with it. :rofl2:
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Originally Posted by olafurson
Hey now, I still have one!!! And I needed the cash... ;)
This one is mine, though. I can tell you that already...
Congrats Jim! She's a beauty!
Awesome piece there Jim! How's the balance?
aww man I didn't think I could want one any more than I do already but this thread has totally put me over the edge. *crosses fingers that the ebay craze is over and the prices will go back down*
Nice razor, congrats! My experience with the edge of my NOS Barbas Duras was the same - I was amazed at how sharp it was right out of the sealed plastic. Totally unexpected surprise.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimR
The other thing I noted is that the Barbas Duras is not just a #14 with a rubber tang grip, as I expected. They seem to be different razors but both excellent. The grind on the Barbas Duras feels thinner to me, and it handles and shaves a bit differently. Mine lacks the typical smile of the #14 Doble Temple, is more evenly balanced, and is more aggressive. My #14 Doble Temple feels thicker, blade-heavier, and has a more forgiving-feeling edge.
The scales are different too. The Barbas Duras scales are harder and shiny, the Doble Temple scales are softer and dull (but with great vintage automobile/guitar colors). Both are admittedly cheap-feeling, but the Barbas Duras seems less so. I love the rubber tang grip too.
The shave from the #14 Doble Temple is unique, I haven't felt anything exactly like it in terms of how it handles and feels against the skin. Big, heavy, sharp, friendly. Like a more refined W&B chopper. The Barbas Duras reminds me a little bit of a really good Friodur, both in terms of how well it handles for it's large size, and for it's edge. Big, but precise, streamlined in it's handling, and just wickedly sharp and efficient.
Love them both. Those Spaniards got it right. :y
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Originally Posted by SiRed8
She handles great...Fatboy Slim pretty much pegged it. Big, but nimble and smooth. Just a fantastic razor, all around...Another great shave last night!
The weight of the blade alone is enough to sever the whiskers. All you need to do is guide it around your mug.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimR
Out of the box mine needed a little bit of work. It shaved, but not quite as well as I wanted it to. But who else to hone up the 14 EPBD but Mad Max? Now mine is in a league of its own.
(I have the brown one with the muted square point)
Well, I have to say that I didn't find the EPBD that heavy, it is lighter than most 7/8 - 8/8 I've used.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oglethorpe
I've opened and honed at least a dozen of these and out of the plastic pouch, these won't shave properly. They hone pretty fast and easy.
Yes, I fully expected to have to hone it to be shave-ready. In fact, this thought worried me for such an expensive razor. I didn't want to chance messing it up if it actually needed a lot of work to be shave ready.
But this one amazed me by easily passing HHT all along the length, right out of the sealed plastic. I expected that even if it somehow escaped the factory perfectly honed, sitting for almost 40 years (even sealed in plastic) would cause some degrading in the edge.
Because I'm obsessive, I did give it 20 strokes with a Nakayama Karasu stone and then stropped it before shaving. But the Karasu can't really salvage a mediocre edge, it can only refine an already really good edge, so I doubt my minimal "honing" made a substantial difference to the factory edge. It was more habit than anything. And it easily passed HHT out of the plastic, before it touched a hone or strop.
I've universally been disappointed by factory edges on new or NOS razors (unless a honemeister honing was added before shipping), which is why I had to comment on this one. Maybe this one was just a very well-honed fluke.
Beautiful Jim! Something about those just get under your skin. They'll just never got "old".