Vintage J.R. Torrey Straight Razor

Fully Restored Vintage J.R. Torrey 6/8 Straight Razor

This razor comes in custom ornate bakelite scales, pinned only on the pivot end.

This is a fully restored vintage J.R. Torrey straight razor, a great shaver with a clear, maker’s mark on the tang, and an untouched engraving on the blade: “”The Celebrated Hollow Ground Razor.””

This is a nice razor for a beginning wet shaver 6/8 and easy to handle.

The blade has a clear mirror finish on both sides. It”s perfectly centered and was honed on a progression of Naniwa Chosera stones, finished on a true Escher, and stropped on a Horween oiled, horsehide strop from Scrupleworks.

It will come to you disinfected, oiled, and ready for shaving out of the box.

The J.R. Torrey Razor company manufactured straight razors from about 1850 to the end of World War I. It initially imported high-carbon steel razors from Sweden, but by the 1870s, Worcester, Mass., where the company was based, had become a steel manufacturing center, and J.R. Torrey Razor was one of its most prominent firms.

Made in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.