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Fergiebilly said:
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Well..Thats Another Forum Misrepresentation by Many..There is No Factory Blade Razor that is Comparable to a Traditional SR..NONE..SE Users Blurt this Out all the Time..Its Bull..The Rolls Hollow Ground Blade SE..Then YES..:D

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Thanks for the tip Fergiebilly, but if I'm being honest, that looks just as dangerous. I like my face the way it is, thankyou. ;)
 
$55 later and another spinner on its way to me (this time a black, anodized aluminum one, CNC machined, $55 shipped)
This black Aluminum one sold out at a new record speed of about 10-12 sec...but...I managed to get one.
I would not recommend reading the comments on the poor guy's last IG post about it...hundreds of people acting like kids for not being able to buy one.

Anywho, might get it as soon as next week;
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A shave-ready Kropp straight razor. 6/8 with black horn scales. Sheffield steel, ground in Hamburg (Solingen) circa 1910. 'Tis half-hollow ground with an extra hollow profile. Hopefully a marked step-up from my Gold Dollar!
Should be arriving today!
 
Benz3ne said:
A shave-ready Kropp straight razor. 6/8 with black horn scales. Sheffield steel, ground in Hamburg (Solingen) circa 1910. 'Tis half-hollow ground with an extra hollow profile. Hopefully a marked step-up from my Gold Dollar!
Should be arriving today!
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Make up your mind, Hamburg and Solingen are a long way apart :D.... or am I being a fool (not unknown :cool:), and is there a part of Solingen that's called Hamburg?
 
GuitarTech said:
Make up your mind, Hamburg and Solingen are a long way apart :D.... or am I being a fool (not unknown :cool:), and is there a part of Solingen that's called Hamburg?
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I wish I could! It says on the shank that it's 'Made in England, ground in Hamburg', but I was told it was Solingen - the seller I know to be knowledgeable in the area of straight razors but I'm going to go with Hamburg for now! :p That's what the razor tells me, anyway!

Thanks for putting me in my place! ;)
 
Benz3ne said:
I wish I could! It says on the shank that it's 'Made in England, ground in Hamburg', but I was told it was Solingen - the seller I know to be knowledgeable in the area of straight razors but I'm going to go with Hamburg for now! :p That's what the razor tells me, anyway!

Thanks for putting me in my place! ;)
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I wasn't having a go, it's not impossible that there is a district in Solingen called Hamburg: the larger towns and cities in Germany are divided up into districts, and the city name always comes before the district. like Hamburg Wandsbek, or Berlin Charlottenburg for example. Maybe there is a Solingen Hamburg, who knows, I've never been there so I can't say :cool:
It's sometimes not easy here when you don't know the language or the country: it's easy to make mistakes. I live in Lübeck, and the tourists that come here often confuse Hamberge (about 2 Kms from Lübeck), and Hamburg, which is 75Kms away, about 50mins on the Autobahn :confused:
 
GuitarTech said:
I wasn't having a go, it's not impossible that there is a district in Solingen called Hamburg: the larger towns and cities in Germany are divided up into districts, and the city name always comes before the district. like Hamburg Wandsbek, or Berlin Charlottenburg for example. Maybe there is a Solingen Hamburg, who knows, I've never been there so I can't say :cool:
It's sometimes not easy here when you don't know the language or the country: it's easy to make mistakes. I live in Lübeck, and the tourists that come here often confuse Hamberge (about 2 Kms from Lübeck), and Hamburg, which is 75Kms away, about 50mins on the Autobahn :confused:
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I absolutely know that GuitarTech! :) It's good to be corrected! Life would be boring if I was right all of the time! :D After a bit of rooting around, it seems that Solingen is entirely out of the picture and that it would have been using Sheffield steel and ground in Hamburg by Friedrich Ern or similar. Gives it a dating of circa 1887-1910.
I was going on the word of the seller. I, for example, don't know whether a razor may have been ground in one place and assembled in another so could be 'made' in two different places. If forging the steel counts as part of the 'making' process, could it be 'made' in three different places?

Very interesting all the same and thanks for giving me a reason to research this! If you hadn't, I would never have known! :)

P.s. do you play guitar? :D I have been playing for about 12 years now and absolutely love it!
 
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