Thread: Alex! Look here! Caudano Torino 6/8.

Wow...that's an attractive razor, and it appears it has the weight in the spine to make it go through whiskers like a cadillac.

I wish more razors were made like that - with the hollow grind, french point and lots of weight in the spine.

Here's some more of the blade profile. I tried to get what I thought was the most important features of the spine work, and how the maufacturer moved it into the toe, before getting to the hollow grind. It's a flat spine, with sides that kind of baloon out at to the corners of the honing jig, where the hollow grind starts. One picture of a definite 7/8 for comparison. As you can see..nobody'd be wrong in calling it a 7/8. Nevermind the coticule slurry on the towel, or what I might be using it for. And don't get sidetracked by my use of the term spine work. Even a flat spine takes work. :P Ain't she a beauty?

I also have a STR8 marked Caudano. This shop closed some decades ago, and it was at about 150 metres from my shop. There are some razors that have the name of Italian shops on them, but they were mainly made in Germany. My Caudano has the number 206. Although their ads used to say "manufacture", it seems very difficult to me that they could have really produced anything, because piazza Carlo Felice is in the very historical center of Torino. So either they had their production elsewhere, or they used their items to be produced by some more generic metal workers and branded Caudano. The steel quality of my Caudano razor seems German, to me. You can use Google Maps to locate piazza Carlo Felice: it has a museum on one side, the National Library on the other, and near the point where Caudano was there is a commercial gallery, they surely could not produce there, at 500 metres from where the King used to live and the parliament seat!
However, I am reading books about the development of Torino, if some useful information should come out I will keep you updated!

Another one here who likes the shape and design of the blade. I know what you mean by a heavy spine feeling good on a full hollow. One of my favourite shavers is a 6/8 with a heavy spine. Nice and interesting find.

Bob