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I don´t know if this is the right place, but I feel I have to beat the trum for Neil Miller. Besides being a very nice chap, he also does absolutly wonderfull restores. It will be a long review, but I have an ingress if you don´t want to read everything :lol:
Ok, first some overall feedback: I sent Neil a bag of razors and when I got them back all looked freaking fantastic
. Buffing is an art and he´s done a very good job, not to much have been removed, just enough. All of them have snugg scales, the blades centers very well and the blades looks truly great.
Mappin: I also bought/traded for this one and I love it. Very nice weight + balance and the transparent scales are very very nice, I was a little afraid how they would look irl ... But it´s a very good match indeed. I like her big time!
I also bought a vintage Roma strop, and it´s very nice too. Exactly how I would have liked it to be. The "fine" side seems very fine indeed. I pulled a couple laps with my
Törnblom, it´s a small straight and it shaves very nice, on the fine side and it was a very easy draw. I haven´t tried the sharpning side yet, but it seems more like a little rougher fine side, if you understand what I mean. That´s only mine two pennies though and maybe a poor reference for an absolut true picture on how it works, I´m afraid.
Helje 31 with new black horn scales ... WONDERFUL scales Neil, really. Like them a lot, they´re milky, dull (in a good way) and shiny at the same time, hard to describe
for me in english, but they´re very nice indeed!! Good thing you didn´t try to buff away all the scratches, it would have taken to much of the metal away, I think. Lovely and looking forward to try a no 31 :hungrig .
White Helje no 31: Very nice, some water spots but that´s no biggie at all, scales looks new... How did you do that?
Helje no 24, looks really good, can´t think of anything to say. I´ll try it and then I´ll see if it´s a keeper, I´m a little unsure about the size, but then again my Törnblom shaves like a champ :shave .
Johan Engström: Looks so nice and the blade has such a really cool shape now. I have high hopes for this one. I don´t know why though, but I _think_ it´ll be a great shaver
Little black James Sheffield with barbers notch (prob. a 4/8): Looks great with shiny blade and scales, nice looking straight indeed.
Solingen with Swedish text: nice new scales, good pick of you Neil! I don´t get any strong feelings for this one though, but that has nothing to do with Neils work - nothing wrong there and I´m happy one still can read the text on the blade.
Old English Razor: Wow, what a good work Neil´ve done with the monkey tail, it was broken and in really bad shape, and now it looks like it´s never been anything wrong with it. I´m amazed. The scales are estupendo, I´m almost shocked that they´re in horn, I thought they where in plastic for sure. So nice!!
Neil´s an artisan when it comes to restoring razors and making leather work (I´ve got a very very nice Miller pouch too)! I think it would be cool to have "Miller" embeded into the leather aswell, I´m sure I think it would make the Miller trade mark stronger. But maybe he has tried that and it didn´t work?
One million thanks Neil, you´ra da straight razor man all the way (in my best american voice)!!
Mikael
Ok, first some overall feedback: I sent Neil a bag of razors and when I got them back all looked freaking fantastic
. Buffing is an art and he´s done a very good job, not to much have been removed, just enough. All of them have snugg scales, the blades centers very well and the blades looks truly great.Mappin: I also bought/traded for this one and I love it. Very nice weight + balance and the transparent scales are very very nice, I was a little afraid how they would look irl ... But it´s a very good match indeed. I like her big time!
I also bought a vintage Roma strop, and it´s very nice too. Exactly how I would have liked it to be. The "fine" side seems very fine indeed. I pulled a couple laps with my
Törnblom, it´s a small straight and it shaves very nice, on the fine side and it was a very easy draw. I haven´t tried the sharpning side yet, but it seems more like a little rougher fine side, if you understand what I mean. That´s only mine two pennies though and maybe a poor reference for an absolut true picture on how it works, I´m afraid.
Helje 31 with new black horn scales ... WONDERFUL scales Neil, really. Like them a lot, they´re milky, dull (in a good way) and shiny at the same time, hard to describe
for me in english, but they´re very nice indeed!! Good thing you didn´t try to buff away all the scratches, it would have taken to much of the metal away, I think. Lovely and looking forward to try a no 31 :hungrig .
White Helje no 31: Very nice, some water spots but that´s no biggie at all, scales looks new... How did you do that?
Helje no 24, looks really good, can´t think of anything to say. I´ll try it and then I´ll see if it´s a keeper, I´m a little unsure about the size, but then again my Törnblom shaves like a champ :shave .
Johan Engström: Looks so nice and the blade has such a really cool shape now. I have high hopes for this one. I don´t know why though
, but I _think_ it´ll be a great shaver Little black James Sheffield with barbers notch (prob. a 4/8): Looks great with shiny blade and scales, nice looking straight indeed.
Solingen with Swedish text: nice new scales, good pick of you Neil! I don´t get any strong feelings for this one though, but that has nothing to do with Neils work - nothing wrong there and I´m happy one still can read the text on the blade.
Old English Razor: Wow, what a good work Neil´ve done with the monkey tail, it was broken and in really bad shape, and now it looks like it´s never been anything wrong with it. I´m amazed. The scales are estupendo, I´m almost shocked that they´re in horn, I thought they where in plastic for sure. So nice!!
Neil´s an artisan when it comes to restoring razors and making leather work (I´ve got a very very nice Miller pouch too)! I think it would be cool to have "Miller" embeded into the leather aswell, I´m sure I think it would make the Miller trade mark stronger. But maybe he has tried that and it didn´t work?
One million thanks Neil, you´ra da straight razor man all the way (in my best american voice
)!!Mikael
