Thiers Issard, France

[Hellas]

Funny, no thread for this nice french razors with old history and still in production yet.

OK, so lets start with a very singing blade. The Evidé Sonnant Extra is the only Thiers I own. 6/8" with black horn scales, ful hollow, singing. In the past the out-of-box sharpness of Thiers was a bit ill-reputed, which was all the more unfortunate as it is certainly not a razor that a beginner sharpens just easy. The steel is much tougher than Solingen's Siver steel. With mine I could not complain about the delivery sharpness. However, after a touch up on a Thuringian "trout" it is much smoother.

 

[Tony]

Here is my #41 S, harder steel dan most other TI razors I have honed, even the c135 seemed less hard.
Shaves greaT .

 

[Robgtt99]

Here are my 2 T.I. ‘s

Left Spartacus
Right wolf and sheep

Both great shavers. Love the gold etching

After honing you can keep them a very long time sharp only by stropping

 

[Tony]

Yes, very nice. I had A wolf and ram A little while ago, regret selling it, loved the rams horn scales.

 

[Robgtt99]

Ram. Offcoarse.
It’s wolf and ram. No sheep
My mistake.

 

[Tony]

Please don’t drop them.

 

[Robgtt99]

@Tony You did some nice work on shortened it.

 

[Tony]

@Tony You did some nice work on shortened it.

The man who owned that razor dropped it in the sink last year. A couple of hours later, the man who is a TI collector stood at my door to buy my wolf and ram. He came to me with tears in eyes and left with a big smile on his face. Shortening such a beautiful razor hurts.