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I have just finished making a pouch for a Rolls Razor blade. Depending on what part of the world you are in you may not have heard of these razors. Have a quick search on google and have a look. These razors were ingenious things because the box they came in also contained a clever mechanism to sharpen and strop them at the correct angle so you always had, well, a razor sharp blade.

Great for cutting my leather although you do have to remove the guard. The pouch was made because I wanted it close to hand but I didn't want to keep putting it back in its box.

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I know them, they have these "flip back and forth thing" for sharpening, right? Are you still using the Rolls razor?

Off Topic - but a very cool razor also is the SCHICK Magazine repeating razor - I´m lucky to own one of them.

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Yes they're the ones. I have used the razor for shaving but I collected old razors for a while and I tend to stick to the same one these days. I will do a google for the SCHICK.

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Oh I like them. I may have to get one. Or two. :)

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I use a Merkur 34c with Feather blades these days... lovely shave :)

Did I read the OP correctly? You use the razor to cut leather?

If so, what's the technique?

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Not for carving but for cutting the leather to size, mainly along a metal rule. Goes through it like butter.

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I just bought a Rhodium plated Gillette Executive in an ostrich leather travel case at the thrift store yesterday. They were only made in 1949-50 from what I have researched so far.

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I do like a nice case. My Rolls came in it's original box with instructions

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