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07-07-2011, 11:48 AM #1
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Thanked: 2591I am going to hone that Tamahagane today and see how it shaves, I wish I could compare to Iwasaki Tamahagane western too.
Stefan
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07-07-2011, 12:18 PM #2
Lovely razors. I'm looking for a Tanifuji myself, an excellent name there.
FYI, Yasuki is a city in Shimane prefecture, near Izumo. That is where Hitachi makes its steel--White Paper, Blue Paper, etc. Yasuki steel is not synonymous with Tamahagane, but Tamahagane is made in Yasuki. All of the steel made there is made from the "Black Iron Sand."
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07-07-2011, 03:11 PM #3
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07-08-2011, 01:02 AM #4
The Yasuki Factory in Yasugi Used to be an independent steelmaker, then it was bought by Hitachi (in the 1960s, I believe). Since then, both names are applied to it--probably as a kind of appeal to tradition.
As for "in the tradition of tamahagane", I think it unlikely since Yasugi is one location where they still hold a traditional Tatara smelting. It's possible, I guess, especially since they didn't write the Kanji...
One thing, what is that at the end of "Tamahagane" on the tang? R? RK?Last edited by JimR; 07-08-2011 at 01:09 AM.
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07-08-2011, 01:23 AM #5
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07-08-2011, 01:30 AM #6
It says Takahashi. Common name...it could be someone who worked for Tanifuji?
It looks like Tamahagane RK Co. is a company name--on this page: Link there is an "M66" razor with that company name, but it's a stainless steel razor. It's confusing...Last edited by JimR; 07-08-2011 at 01:38 AM.
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07-08-2011, 01:50 AM #7
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07-08-2011, 02:22 AM #8
Crack-a-lackin' razors MC Stefan
Look forward to the shave test report.“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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07-08-2011, 02:28 AM #9He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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