Straight razor size determination
Straight razor size determination
If buying a used razor, how would one determine the size if it is unknown?
Roger
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I have been discovering that the size given is not always what you get. My Dovo Astrale was sold as a 5/8" but it is probably closer to .700" (excuse my decimals). 5/8" is my preferred size but in reality a real 5/8" actually looks small to my eye. Most of my 5/8" razors are in reality a little larger than that.
Richard
I assume you talking about used ones?rustyblade wrote:I have been discovering that the size given is not always what you get. My Dovo Astrale was sold as a 5/8" but it is probably closer to .700" (excuse my decimals). 5/8" is my preferred size but in reality a real 5/8" actually looks small to my eye. Most of my 5/8" razors are in reality a little larger than that.
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The sizes are only a convention. European makers don't make razors in eighth's of an inch - they make them to some metric size and we're rounding them down to the nearest eighth. And most of the old english razors are so worn nowadays that who knows what their original size really was? But we stick to eighths because it feels be about right - different sizes look noticeably different, and different sizes shave noticeably different, and the same isn't really true anymore if you drop to sixteenths.
The U.S. is about the only country in the world not fully metric. I never thought about that when considering eurpoean razors, etc. Will now.mparker762 wrote:The sizes are only a convention. European makers don't make razors in eighth's of an inch - they make them to some metric size and we're rounding them down to the nearest eighth. And most of the old english razors are so worn nowadays that who knows what their original size really was? But we stick to eighths because it feels be about right - different sizes look noticeably different, and different sizes shave noticeably different, and the same isn't really true anymore if you drop to sixteenths.
Roger
I've been a wet shaver for 56 years!
I've been a wet shaver for 56 years!