Yesterday's Weapons Forums

I mess with and use straight razors to shave with. Like old guns and stuff, they get neglected and abused. Sometimes with a bit of elbow grease you can make 'em come back to the glory they once had.

Here's a Frederick Reynolds, Sheffield razor. Had a nice blade etch and "blonde" horn scales. Bugs got the scales a little bit and the edge looked like somebody had tried to gut a brick with it. The steel in these things is as hard as they could temper it at the time so it is rather brittle.


I polished out the scales with 0000 steel wool and then Mothers. Cleaned up the blade a bit, and spent a lot of time honing out the gaps and putting a real edge on it.




Scales are nearly transparent.


It came back from the dead wonderfully. I haven't used it in several months, but I broke it out last night, stropped it, and it still shaves GREAT.

I enjoy using a tool that was made in 1870's as it was originally designed to be used. Got some older than this one that I use regular too. Can't help but wonder about the gent that first bought it and put that piece of steel to his neck and where it went from there to end up in my pile. :)

THat looks like a 1930 RR tie nail. Used to show MoW when to change out old ties. SW

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Slava Ukraini!!

i used to have a small collection of half dozen+ of these , mostly family heirlooms - my sister got a wild hair to build a display and confiscated them from me a number of years ago ,

had one very similar to that , its nice to see someone taking such good care of these for future generations [probably wont know what they are tho ]

I used to have some of my Grandpas old razors but somehow they disappeared. Wish I still had them.

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"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth ...... firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes..."
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....found this one some time back....didnt really do anything other than oil it a bit.....dunno If I got the balls to try shavin with it though...


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....Naj puška govori!....
.............deplorable typical "bitter clinger"....

....where the heck didja FIND these...???

....and dija ever hear of these folks???

http://www.classicshaving.com/Home.html

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....Naj puška govori!....
.............deplorable typical "bitter clinger"....

Some I've found on ebay, others in junk/antique shops/malls. Others I've traded for. They're just where ya find 'em.

I guess I've got about 50 or 60 of the damn things. Only use 5 or six with any regularity. Got a few in the "to be fixed" pile that will be brought online eventually.

Thinking real serious about thinning the herd a bit. Got several full hollows that I doubt I'll ever use. They shave good, but I don't like the feel or the racket those ultra thin blades make when they cut the whiskers.

I'm familiar with the outfit you linked to, but I've never tried doing business with them. Pretty much all of the online shave/razor vendors are a bit too pricey on their stuff for my tastes.