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The Worldfs No. 1 Cutting Edge Razor Blade

Swordsmith: Shigeyoshi Iwasaki
Iwasaki Japanese Razor (regular size)


Item #1707-301
PRICE: 31,500 yen
 
With the worldsf No. 1 cutting edge, the Iwasaki razor blade utilizes a concave blade design. This concave design technique is very difficult master at which Iwasaki is the master. Only razor blades ordered by Munemasa Cutlery has BETSU-UCHI inscribed on the blade.
ySpecificationsz
Overall length (blade and handle): 16cm / blade length: 5cm / blade thickness: 0.5cm / weight: 40grams / blade material: Old type Swedish stee l/ high quality Taulownia wooden box case. (all length are approximate)
ŠProduction time: approximately 1 months

Shigeyoshi Iwasaki
Born: 1933
Munich International craftsman Expo - Gold Award (1998)

Iwasaki through the request of the Japanese Government has been teaching the art of blade making in many foreign countries.


As reported in the book by Kosuke Iwasaki, HAMONO-NO-MIKATA, Seichi Hidea, a barber, reported that he shaved 386 customers after honing the razor blade only once.

Another barber reported shaving 426 people after one honing and an instructor at a barber college reported he shaved an astounding 1,032 people.

When people approached Shigeyoshi Iwasaking saying that they just cannot believe the numbers, he gives them the telephone numbers of the people in the article so that the unbelievers can call them personally.