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Post by wchnu on Jan 3, 2018 7:32:32 GMT -6
Look what blew into my place this morning. Actually two things. First the razor. I am dating it as a 1898ish Star. It is a wedge only razor. When I saw the pics of it I thought it would be. Second is a brown jayaruh handle. It fits this head great and made forva veddy nice shave.
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Post by jayaruh on Jan 3, 2018 7:46:31 GMT -6
Look what blew into my place this morning. Actually two things. First the razor. I am dating it as a 1898ish Star. It is a wedge only razor. When I saw the pics of it I thought it would be. Second is a brown jayaruh handle. It fits this head great and made forva veddy nice shave. Wow! Nice razor. I would love to get a wedge one day. Maybe 2018 is the year of the wedge. I am glad the handle fit the Star so well. Glad you had a veddy nice shave.
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Post by wchnu on Jan 3, 2018 8:04:23 GMT -6
Look what blew into my place this morning. Actually two things. First the razor. I am dating it as a 1898ish Star. It is a wedge only razor. When I saw the pics of it I thought it would be. Second is a brown jayaruh handle. It fits this head great and made forva veddy nice shave. Wow! Nice razor. I would love to get a wedge one day. Maybe 2018 is the year of the wedge. I am glad the handle fit the Star so well. Glad you had a veddy nice shave. Vedfy nice is an understatement. I just posted the video in the SOTD. The handle is beyond awesome my friend!!! I am hooked.
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Post by corto on Jan 3, 2018 10:34:45 GMT -6
Stunning... just stunning! Congratulation to both.
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Post by twhite on Jan 3, 2018 12:04:10 GMT -6
Look what blew into my place this morning. Actually two things. First the razor. I am dating it as a 1898ish Star. It is a wedge only razor. When I saw the pics of it I thought it would be. Second is a brown jayaruh handle. It fits this head great and made forva veddy nice shave. Wow! Nice razor. I would love to get a wedge one day. Maybe 2018 is the year of the wedge. I am glad the handle fit the Star so well. Glad you had a veddy nice shave. I was thinking about starting a pass around with a couple of my wedge razors. I have a spare of the Heljestrand and Henckels. To make Stropping easy for the pass around. I will send my Allego Stropping machine. It is fool proof. Any interest in this guys?
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Post by jayaruh on Jan 3, 2018 12:06:28 GMT -6
Wow! Nice razor. I would love to get a wedge one day. Maybe 2018 is the year of the wedge. I am glad the handle fit the Star so well. Glad you had a veddy nice shave. I was thinking about starting a pass around with a couple of my wedge razors. I have a spare of the Heljestrand and Henckels. To make Stropping easy for the pass around. I will send my Allego Stropping machine. It is fool proof. Any interest in this guys? Well, I would be up for that. It would be the next best thing to owning my own. I saw a Star wedge on the bay for sale for $15. What do you think of that. It is just the blade.
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Post by twhite on Jan 3, 2018 12:09:28 GMT -6
I was thinking about starting a pass around with a couple of my wedge razors. I have a spare of the Heljestrand and Henckels. To make Stropping easy for the pass around. I will send my Allego Stropping machine. It is fool proof. Any interest in this guys? Well, I would be up for that. It would be the next best thing to owning my own. I saw a Star wedge on the bay for sale for $15. What do you think of that. It is just the blade. Good blades are hard to come by. I have seen that auction. They look ok to me. I will get the razors and a blade or two honed up. I will get that and your injector blades out by weeks end. Tom
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Post by jayaruh on Jan 3, 2018 12:40:19 GMT -6
Well, I would be up for that. It would be the next best thing to owning my own. I saw a Star wedge on the bay for sale for $15. What do you think of that. It is just the blade. Good blades are hard to come by. I have seen that auction. They look ok to me. I will get the razors and a blade or two honed up. I will get that and your injector blades out by weeks end. Tom Thanks, Tom that is fast.
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Post by riverrun on Jan 4, 2018 7:10:27 GMT -6
What makes you date it to 1898? Looks older to me. Could be a HR-5A from Waits' compendium. 1887-1890 I'd guess. Any better pictures of the inscriptions?
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Post by wchnu on Jan 4, 2018 7:39:50 GMT -6
What makes you date it to 1898? Looks older to me. Could be a HR-5A from Waits' compendium. 1887-1890 I'd guess. Any better pictures of the inscriptions? I will get them. I said 98 so that I did not date it to early. I had glanced at some pics before. For the price I am very happy with it.
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Post by wchnu on Jan 4, 2018 7:48:56 GMT -6
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Post by riverrun on Jan 4, 2018 8:24:51 GMT -6
Now that you find the book useful - buy it (as a PDF - that allows you to zoom into images).
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Post by wchnu on Jan 4, 2018 8:52:04 GMT -6
Now that you find the book useful - buy it (as a PDF - that allows you to zoom into images). I will do that next week. So I think safe to say 1887ish for this razor? The writting looks different then the 1890 version.
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Post by riverrun on Jan 4, 2018 9:10:35 GMT -6
Now that you find the book useful - buy it (as a PDF - that allows you to zoom into images). I will do that next week. So I think safe to say 1887ish for this razor? The writting looks different then the 1890 version. I'd say 1887-1890 just based on the patent dates (if they are what I think I can see). No way to pin it down further unless the razor came with the original receipt The years in Waits compendium are the last date found on the razor.
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Post by wchnu on Jan 4, 2018 9:45:01 GMT -6
I will do that next week. So I think safe to say 1887ish for this razor? The writting looks different then the 1890 version. I'd say 1887-1890 just based on the patent dates (if they are what I think I can see). No way to pin it down further unless the razor came with the original receipt The years in Waits compendium are the last date found on the razor. Thankyou for pointing my mistake out. Woo 130ish year old razor. Not bad for $14ish.
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