Hello everybody.

macrob77

I decided to join your gentelmen's club. My name is Maciek and i'm a wet shaving enthusiast and hobbyist razor restorer.
Very nice to meet people who share the same passion as me

Regards.
Maciek.

MadsL

Hi, big fan of your work if you are the guy who has been selling restored straights out of ebay.ie

Welcome to boards!

hitemfrank

MadsL wrote: »

Hi, big fan of your work if you are the guy who has been selling restored straights out of ebay.ie

Welcome to boards!

Someone sells restored straights from ebay.ie?

Got a link to the seller? You know, just in case I get an itch to buy another...

macrob77

Hi.

MadsL wrote: »

Hi, big fan of your work if you are the guy who has been selling restored straights out of ebay.ie

Welcome to boards!

Thanks.
I do occasionally sell razors on ebay. I don't know it's allowed to post links but this is my website where you can view my previous restoration projects.

hitemfrank

Just had a look through your site. Some very nice restorations you've done. I really like the Spalted Maple scales on this one (hope you don't mind me putting the picture here)




I also had a look at the Deramaix frameback. Someone got an absolute bargain at the price they got it for. The etched blade looks great in the frame.

It was good to see another Deramaix frameback, as I have one myself. I never knew who the actual maker was until I read the information in your description. The makers name is really faded on the blade of mine. It also reminded me that I should really give mine another honing as I'm not happy with the edge I put on it the last time I honed it.

macrob77

Hi.
Would you believe that when i listed that Deramaix razor i got an email from a gentleman from France. He stated that he is a grandchild of Jules Leresche and he wrote me couple of facts from history of his family.

, As you wrote the Leresche Factory settled back in Burgundy in 1854 because Jules Leresche had gone bankrupt in Switzerland, and claimed back as a descendant of Huguenots the French nationality for himself and his family. Now, the only time THE lERESCHE razors bore my surname, and, in the present case that of my grand-father's was during the SHORT time he was married to my grand-mother; between 1920 and 1930. True, the tribe never expected him to take off so quickly. Then he was in charge of the shop in Paris. He was a Belgian citizen. Nowadays, all the factory makes are cutters for carpets.

I ask him for few more facts but he never answered.

hitemfrank

The only thing I ever found on the company was this picture of the factory in St. Julien




I just did a quick search google search for Jules Leresche and found a US patent for his frameback design. You've probably seen it before but I found it pretty interesting. I'll probably end up spending some time now to found out more about the company