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Tue Oct 08 2024
This is the razor that taught me that there's a "numero sign" (№) in the unicode spec.
"Le Thiernois" is France's equivalent to the "Solingen" or "Eskilstuna" brand (and, to a lesser extent, "Sheffield") used by small manufacturers who think that their own name carries less weight than the fact that they are part of the knife industry in a city famous for it. Nowadays, "Le Thiernois" with that same art is a model of Thiers Issard, but this one's still from before TI became the only known razor maker in Thiers.
It's my only round tip 14 which makes it a great autopilot straight because it's basically impossible to poke your cheek or nick your earlobe with this unless you do it on purpose.
The extra soft horse is a nice change of pace. The big horse hair bristles lather more slowly that boar or badger knots, but that also makes it easier to avoid fluffy lather.
Very cool razor!
Yeah, it's quite nice. Nowhere near pristine, but in good enough shadow