Description: Premium 4/8" straight razor handmade in France. Carbon steel. Full hollow ground. Includes leather sheath. ADD A 'NOTE TO VENDOR' AT CHECKOUT INDICATING IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO FURTHER HONE YOUR RAZOR POST-FACTORY. “Handmade in France” Made by hand (and uniquely so), the Thiers-Issard brand is, in this one opinion, the most hollow ground and flexible razor left in production today. They’ve produced straight razors for nearly 100 years in Thiers, France, with traditional methods confined to this most special of nations, such as lead tempering and the use of a single forging die and multiple hammer/reheat/hammer cycles versus the quicker method employed elsewhere where a progressive series of forging dies are used in sequence with just one heating cycle. This “leh peh-tite fran-say” cutie is a 4/8 size razor marketed towards barbers as a touch-up razor, but obviously can be used for anyone for standard shaving. Full hollow ground. 4/8″ size is easy to use around the mouth, on the sideburns, etc. Tremendously appealing robust resin scales are 3.6mm thick and in the classic blue/white/red of the French flag. At fifty-seven grams, this is a surprisingly robust razor for the 4/8″ class. The scales add a lot to the razor, both in weight and in price! “Shave Ready”? If you elect for the factory edge, you’ll receive your razor exactly as its manufacturers intended…pretty simple! If you elect for The Superior Shave to further hone your razor, your razor will be delivered to you Guaranteed Shave Ready! The Superior Shave hones via a method best coined (by the old Thiers-Issard director) as “the opposite of tape“, where the hones’ shapes cater to performance and little else; you begin with your coarsest stone that’s shaped as the smallest imaginary wheel, and you progress to finer abrasives shaped like larger wheels, thus honing from the spine toward the actual edge, leaving a *thin*, concave edge first and foremost. The convex honing methods were used at Thiers-Issard for many years (they’re the ones that told me about it in the first place ~2010), though today as the natural stone convex wheels once used are now commercially deceased, they use 5 pairs of ~flat discs to establish a cutting edge which is then ultimately refined with a dual-grit pasted strop. While I’ve tremendous respect for Thiers-Issard’s method and believe many people will love its shave straight out of the box, if you don’t mind more visual queues of honing, for my own face I prefer the concaved edge, and thus that is how I hone your razor when requested. If a commercial wheel fine and slow enough to establish a concaved bevel still existed, I believe they’d probably still use one. There is no wrong or right choice for factory edge/further honed, but please do not believe all factory edges are never ‘Shave Ready’, that is an absurd yet common belief. Their intention is certainly for you to only need to strop the new razor (after wiping off the factory oil) prior to shaving to receive a terrific shave. Thanks for reading this, and happy shaving!
Price: 249.51 USD
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
End Time: 2024-11-25T21:00:59.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Blade Material: Carbon Steel
Color: Black
MPN: A-SING-6/8-100-STORK
Item Length: 8 in
Point Type: Round Point
Brand: Thiers-Issard
Department: Men
Type: Straight Razor
Model: Thiers Issard Le Chatellerault
Body Area: Face
Features: Hollow Grind
Number of Blades: 1
Razor Blade Width: 4/8 in
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Handle Material: Plastic
