Thread: Most recent RAD

I found all of these at the same antique mall that I have had luck at before. It seems they keep finding them so I felt obligated to keep buying.

Just had to get this for some reason. Very little hone ware at all and the hone is intact. All the paper work is still in the box even. Now I just need to take the guard off the blade and hit it with my 4k/8k to get it sharp once again.


Top: Shumate Barber
Middle: Shumate 850
Bottom: 100 Friedr,Baurmann & Sohne Solingeng Germany and on the back Comfort

Very nice, can you explain how the strop thing works? I have seen these posted before and other than it looks like some kind of strop/hone thingi I just don't get it.

The strop and hone each have their own side on the case and cannot be interchanged. The bar the the handle fits on lifts up and is pulled to move the razor across the strop or hone. When it gets to the end of its track and the direction is reversed the blade will flip over and the stropping/honing action is repeated on the other side of the edge. When honing the edge will be leading and when stropping the edge is following.

I hope I have explained this well enough. If not let me know and I can try and get some pictures up and see if that helps.

Nice haul brother!!! Love those old rolls..

Thanks mjhammer, I am loving the Rolls also.

I just got it honed up yesterday and shaved with it and all I can say is wow. I used my Clubman Pinuad after and thought something was wrong when there was not any burn at all. Either I really screwed up on the honing or just figured this blade out the first time out. Wait, still not a lot of stubble on my face so I must have done it right.

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Mike