Thread: Timor razors website

Hi,
I was going though the web and have not found much on Timor straight razors. Who makes them? Do they have a website to look at ?

Thanks

Took me a while too. Never saw the website before but I know the products have a great reputation. Needed some background info. to find them. Found trademark owners Giesen & Forsthoff and from there it was easy. Here it is: Giesen + Forsthoff GmbH & Co. KG - Online Shop

Their currently made straights do not have a great reputation according to some of the guys who have worked on them here. Their vintage stuff is much better quality. I don't know of their other cutlery items. Some of their razors are in Dovo price range almost.

I just bought one from the Shave Shop. I haven't tried it yet but it is a nice looking razor with dark horn scales. the price was right.

I have a bottom of the range G&S Timor Blue Steel #150, and it offers as good a shave as my Dovo #98 worth 3 times as much. The steel seems to be almost as good or the same as my older Dovo, but the scales are crap on that model Timor IMO. Compared to the Dovo (That has a centre pin) the Timor scales (no centre pin) feel flimsy. I would say it is the lack of the third pin on plastic scales. All in all I find the Timor brand to be comparable quality for an every other day shaver.


Mick

I have not heard good things about the current production Timor line.

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

I have not heard good things about the current production Timor line.

Then you didn't read my post just previous to yours.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

I have a bottom of the range G&S Timor Blue Steel #150, and it offers as good a shave as my Dovo #98 worth 3 times as much. The steel seems to be almost as good or the same as my older Dovo, but the scales are crap on that model Timor IMO. Compared to the Dovo (That has a centre pin) the Timor scales (no centre pin) feel flimsy. I would say it is the lack of the third pin on plastic scales. All in all I find the Timor brand to be comparable quality for an every other day shaver.


Mick

Excuse my ignorance,but.....WTF is "an every other day shaver"?

Originally Posted by MickR

Then you didn't read my post just previous to yours.


Mick

Let me amend that, in the gentlest you-should-read-between-the-lines way I can:

I have not heard good things from experienced members whose opinions I respect about the current production Timor line.

Originally Posted by HarleyFXST

Excuse my ignorance,but.....WTF is "an every other day shaver"?

The razor you use every other day, because you use another in alternate rotation. Would you like me to come round to butter your toast for you as well? Or do you think you can manage to grasp that process for yourself?


Mick


P.S @BKratchmer, No offense taken. Thank you for clarifying.