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    Hi Forum

    Thanks to all the welcomes on the sub-forum.

    As I mentioned on the beginners' intros, I have a few questions after having been straight shaving for a couple of months.

    First up, I'm curious about the grind that my new Thiers-Issard has. Wonder if anyone can shed any light. The info on the box is:

    SING-5/8-889-CN
    RAZOR 5/8 889 CORNE
    NOIRE AIGLE NEZ ROND

    '5/8' I understand just fine, and 'nez rond' is pretty obvious thanks to my A-Level French! But can I deduce from 'SING' that this is a singing razor?

    Thanks

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    Yea, that would be my assumption too.

    Bob
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    Any pics?
    Before you do anything with it, check that it's straight, they have had a bit of problem with their QC in the past.
    Hur Svenska stålet biter kom låt oss pröfva på.

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    Thanks guys.

    Have already shaved with it several times, but I'm still fairly inexperienced, so not sure if I could tell if it was faulty.

    The lady in the shop said that their QC was poor a few years ago, in her view they were now up to scratch.

    I'll take a snap and work out how to upload it.

    My beard grows very slowly (one shave every five to six days). It is also pretty tough (I think, though actually I don't go about feeling other mens' beards for comparison!). I wonder if a singer is the right razor for me considering my tough beard?

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    Oh dear. Just tried to upload a 2.55 MB zip file of a snap I just took of it.

    Just got repeated msg, 'upload failed'.

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    Stop press!

    Just found it on the online version of the (real) shop where I bought it.

    And it answers my original question as well. Indeed a singer.

    Groot aanbod aan scheermateriaal in De Messenwinkel -

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    Looks like a nice one!
    Dutch, a language I can almost read, it's like in between English, Swedish and German.
    Singing or not is just personal choice, either you like it or not.
    Good to hear they got their QC under control.
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    Quote Originally Posted by midnightrambler View Post
    Stop press!

    Just found it on the online version of the (real) shop where I bought it.

    And it answers my original question as well. Indeed a singer.

    Groot aanbod aan scheermateriaal in De Messenwinkel -
    Beautiful razor, I have the same one, "The Flying Eagle", only mine has snakewood scales and a slightly different blade. Very heavy blade!

    Thiers-Issard 5/8 Eagle Snakewood, Straight Razor

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    With German and English I can understand most of it. Although there are some words, e.g. 'kip'='chicken', that have no relationship to any other language I know.

    As far as the shaving is concerned, I am learning all the time, though still a long way to go. I have though, perfected the art of shaving the easy strip, straight down from the sideburn to the bottom of the jaw. And here the razor makes the most satisfying noise, it's like you can hear each individual hair snapping under the razor. Sort of like a pleasant tearing, if that makes any sense.

    I have heard though that the 'singing' name comes from the noise it makes on the strop.

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    Very nice razor that should sound similar to the sound buttering toast makes, when shaving if it is a singing full hollow. I always thought Dutch sounded similar to Hamburg Plattdeutsch to my ear.

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