3 gifts from my barber of 20 years.............
When I got interested in str8s I asked my barber (not in Knoxville, but a small town north of here) if he had any straight razxors when he bought the barber shop from the previous barber. He said yeah somewhere in the basement. They'd been stored for the 40 years he had been barbering there and is now in his 70's. He never used them, but the previous barber used them well. Said he wasn't sure he wanted to get rid of them and I told him I'd love to buy a couple just to be able to have a piece of history from the town and he said he'd try to find them. well he came across about 12 well used razors in a zip lock bag and when I saw him again, he smiled and said have a look. They were nothing fancy by some peoples standards, but I thought they were all neat. After picking out 3 I thought would be good shavers to get restored and asked how much would he like for these if he would let them go. He said Dave we're buddies, you can have them all. I told him to hold onto the others for now but selected these 3 to get ready to put in my rotation when I can afford to send them off to 1 of our member restorers.
1st one is a round tip Boker. Hard to make it out in the lousy pics but on the blade is "Our Own" and under that "Hollow Ground Razor"
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Next is a J A Henkels with Box in great shape except for a tear from some tape someone had on it.
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