Hi all,
Has anyone come up with a way to make a stropping / honing handle to take a Rolls blade so I can strop the blade independently from the main carriage and on a stone or paddle.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. 
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First, I'll apologize for starting a new thread here when it relates quite a bit to my recent thread in the Catch of the Day area.  I felt I needed to do this since it relates as much to the variety of STAR razors as to my post about my Star #5 razor in Catch of the Day.  Confused yet??  I think I am     Secondly I'd like to propose that we have a separate area for STAR razors under the SE category in our table of contents like we do for GEM and ER - I certainly mean no disrespect for our wonderful mods who have created this website... I love it, and thank y'all very much... just feel that the STARs need a home of their own    

So... all that to say that I wanted you guys and gals to see what you think about what I consider to be my more unusual STAR razors and to see which one(s) you think go with the STAR #5 military type pouch that I showed in the Catch of the Day area. So, I'll deal with the first four here (all four of these don't have a top cap) and the next three in the following post.

The razor on the left is very well used, and if anyone has any ideas about cleaning/polishing one this well-used, please let me know... on the head it says "Use Only Star Cru Steel Blades", and on the next picture you see that the back of it says "Kampfe Bros. New York, USA, Pat. Applied for"(unfortunately no date)  .

The two razors in the center are identical.  They say "STAR Safety Razor Corp., Brooklyn, New York... on the back of them it says  "Patented March 24-14, Made in USA.

The razor on the right says "STAR Super Six, Kampfe Bros. NY USA, Pat. 4-14-14" and on the back it is completely blank.
Go down to the next post for the next three as I don't know how many pics I can put per post.

Alright Guys, 
This threads been here, and no Dug-Out Chatter...Lets get this Great Smelling Show on the Road!

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One of the weirdest razors I know of is this Firm Blade. Apparently based in Portland, 4913 SE Powell Blvd somewhere around 1945, it has a wooden egg for a handle and uses a half DE blade. Apparently there's a version without wooden knob, and I've seen a pic of one with a different knob.
       

       
Our first baby girl Julianna.

The French "Griff's" is a foldable, open tooth comb SE with its own model blade. Folding it opens the razor so that the blade can be replaced, opening it will hold the blade firmly in place. The blade is NOS, and sticks well into its greaseproof paper, so I did not unpack it further.
The same razor is also available under the brand JAK. Recent I got NOS blades of this brand, and shaved with one of them. The teeth stick far ahead of the blade, which means the razor should be held very flat against the face. The guidance is great as long as it goes from top to bottom. Left->right or down->up is difficult, not the best shaving razor, here amplified because of the hundred years old blade.
At the second shave I tried to work with an old blade sharpener, but it was not a big success.

                   

This isn't a new one, but I'm hoping to get help from you fellows and gals.  I bought this set a while back, but it didn't have the razor.  It looks like some of my other WWI military sets, but I can't figure out which razor is supposed to go in it.  Does anyone know?Any help will be appreciated.  Thanks!!

The Croscut is a slanted (only diagonal, not torqued) SE, produced by the Temperite Co in Philadelphia. They supplied the United Drug Co in Boston, who then sold the razor through their Rexall Drugstores.
Patent (Thank you Andreas ) asked for and granted in 1911, ™ in 1912. An United Drug Co address is known from 1916, so this is an over a century old razor.
It comes with a nice, thin handle, and, like for instance the Irving, a paralellogram shaped head. (Fun Fact: Lemmy Kilmister used the word Parallellogram in his song Motorhead). The blade is placed on the baseplate, and the the cap is moved into place, an exercise not without risk of injury.
As the blades are proprietary and a Feather SE blade does not fit I have no idea how this shaves.
Case of blades was provided, one of them is marked "Dummy Blade".

Came in two versions: silver in a darkblue case, gold in a red case.

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