Sellers pics from ebay! $103!
Nice work my friend!This matching pair recently arrived in my mail. They were a mistaken double order due to the pandemic.
Titan 1918 ACRM-2 T.H.60. They are 6/8 of Japanese high carbon steel with added cobalt and molybdenum. The scales are of natural Madagascan Mahogany finely engraved in the mid-quarter.
I checked these SR's and found they easily shaved arm hairs but the bevels were not properly set. Sharpie ink remained near the apex when tested. A quick progression through my lapping films soon fixed that and they were tree-topping at 5mm to 10mm.
This morning I refined their edges on diamond pasted balsa strops to where they now tree-top at 10mm to 15mm. With a few shaves and diamond pasted balsa strop maintenance, they should be at their atomic edge in no time.
These two SR's are excess to my requirements so I'll think of PIFing them away later to some worthy local fellows.
Just another perfect day in my little bit of paradise. We are nearing the end of our monsoon season. Still a little local flooding around but none has affected our subdivision.Nice work my friend!
And a VERY nice thing to do for those folks local to you. How is your weather?
View attachment 1139915View attachment 1139916View attachment 1139917View attachment 1139914Wade & Butcher 'American Razor' and a very early J.R. Torrey. No hone wear on either.
A new TI, a sheep and wolf, or a wolf and sheep, I forget which.
6/8s in olive wood.
Gosh those will require a lot of elbow grease.
View attachment 1139915View attachment 1139916View attachment 1139917View attachment 1139914Wade & Butcher 'American Razor' and a very early J.R. Torrey. No hone wear on either.
That's a very fine razor and beautifully restored too.MK 32 and not exactly new, but the scales are - another beautiful job by Alfredo, aka @Doc226 - tortoise Kirinite. Quite the looker now!
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Sorry Steve, I didn't express myself particularly well. I knew that the blade was NOS but with damaged scales. With "restored" I meant the really fine new scales made by Alfredo.Thank you Arne, the blade is not restored, it was NOS or mint when I bought it. The thick ivory scales were cracked on both sides at the pivot. Alfredo actually made the tortoise Kirinite scales for another razor with the MK shape, and he put them on the MK 32 for fun. They looked so good I kept them on the MK over the originals. They feel very good in the hand too, and the whole razor is just perfect.
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It’s my Grandpa’s. He’s in the afterlife, so I only know my Mom gave me this one and a razor-shaped pile of rust riveted to two tortoiseshell scales.
First shave. Nicked my upper lip, very barely sliced my neck nowhere near the whiskers. Left sideburn area is DFS! Was generous with the Snake Bite Aftershave before using the menthol witch hazel. And that refrain from the Dua Lipa hit is in full earworm mode:
It should have stayed unhoned
’Cause I was doing better alone
But when it shaved “hello”
I knew it was the end of it all
It should have stayed unhoned
’Cause now there ain’t no letting it go
Am I stropping and honing
The one that will shave too hard?