Straight Razor, Wooden Straight Edge Razor for Man Stainless Steel Manual Straight Razor, Cutthroat Rosewood Razor, Natural Wood Scale Vintage Razor Barber Razor

For the price, you can't go wrong. It's a bare bones basic razor. Nothing wrong with a lack of flash. It came shave sharp. It got to hair popping scary sharp in a pretty short time. I'll be buying another

This razor came shave ready for my first shave. I had to strop it for my second shave, but otherwise, it was relatively easy to use. It's light and easy to handle. The notches allow for a decent grip even when your hand is wet. It's a nice basic design. Be ready to take care of it because it's going to need stropping not long after your first shave.

...but I'm having trouble getting a decent edge on it. I think its just me, but it also seems to be a softer steel than others I've had.

Very nice for the money, and good to practice with

Some things are so cheap that they actually do other work. Steel is good, came relatively sharp, but the grind is done in such a way that it can't be re-sharpened. A waste of $17 since it's not really a reusable item.

if you buy a blade online it will probably need to be sharpened especially razors, but it does come sharp enough to cut the hair off your arm and is a great shape and size

This razor is no razor. When it arrived, it could not even cut the hair on my cheeks without drawing a little blood. It would probably have shaved my entire mouth off if I tried getting at my mustache or my chin, at that point. Well, it was a cheap razor, so I knew before buying that I might need to hone it. I took it to my whetstones: first the 1000 grit, then the 4000, then the 8000, applying only edge-trailing strokes (they're cheap stones, but they're effective enough). I stropped it with linen and then leather, using a stropping compound, and then finally put the blade to an untreated strop. After all that, I could shave my cheeks with a little less nicking, but not much better than before. I took the blade to a professional sharpener, but even he, by his own admission, couldn't get a keen enough edge on it, though he did get it sharper than I could; it is now sharp enough that I can shave my cheeks without nicking them, if I'm careful. The blade still cannot shave the coarsest areas of my face (upper lip and chin) without nicking them, and it leaves my neck irritated and sore. It would maybe be alright for shaving my legs and arms, if I were of the persuasion to do so. The good news is that I now have an extremely effective letter opener, for whatever is left of the days in which the occasional useful thing arrives in an envelope.

Needs to be sharpened on arrival