Hi,
new to this forum and new to the world of straight razors as well. This forum is a wonderful place loaded with information, very helpful for a greenhorn.
Anyway, started with straight razors 2 months ago, picked up a Bengall on a flee market this summer with some knives. Always wanted to shave this way but didn't try until 2 months ago. The Bengall was no where near shave ready so the first attempts were eh.. interesting?
Well after expanding my stack of stones and pastes I know can get a chipped razor to shave ready, at least for me. Getting the right technique for both saving and honing has been fun, still a newbie but I shave daily with no effort.
I made my own strop, didn't like the Dove strop in the shop, works really well if you ask me.
Anyway I thought I would show the razors I picked up in the process of learning to hone and shave. I use most of them in the rotation plus on petite special for above the mustache. Nothing fancy, vintage razors cleaned with Autosol, spent no real money on them. Some might be worthy of a restoration when I get into that area. Please tell me if any is worth the effort.
Three Swedish steels from Jernbolaget Eskiltuna, first a frameback, the last one almost a full wedge. I like the leather scales. Great shaves all three, the frameback can be nasty when shaving with a bad cold.
A J.A Hellberg followed by two Erik Anton Berg..
Three C.V. Heljestrand. First a nr 24, second a nr 7 4/8 and the third on is my petite special a MK 31. Everything about the razor is small even the scales. THe nr 7 above is a small 4/8 but it looks big.. manufactured this way or done aftwards? Anyway I use all three with great pleasure.
Got these yesterday and haven't honed them yet, only cleaned them.
Quite funny, I bought the Anton Berg frameback on top. When meeting with the seller it turned out that he had some more that he was willing to part with for small extra price.. I said yes..
So I got the J.A Hellberg and Anton Berg framebacks, both with smiles. Honewear?
Next a Edv. Neiström in need of a little loving from the rust stains buth otherwise in very good condition.
The last one is my only none Swedish razor, a Jospeh Elliott almost full wedge. Sheffield..
Some of these scales might be other than plastics... bone??
Anyway, these razors are my working/learning collection.
I love that you can acquire old vintage stuff of excellent quality and use them!
/Joakim
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Greetings from Sweden
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