Straight Razor With Laminated Fabric

With its extremely sharp, half hollow polished blade made of carbon steel, this straight razor cuts beard hair closely, cleanly, and gently.
Consult the extensive guide for use and care to shave with it.

We are known to have a preference for old materials, insofar as they are functionally, haptically or aesthetically superior to their modern substitutes. One of these materials is Hartgewebe, a 70-year-old synthetic material in which a textile linen fabric is pressed with thermosets. It is not a fabric of yesterday. It is still used in a great many special technical applications: in engine construction, in electrical engineering, and generally as machine parts, such as gears, because it is hard, abrasion-resistant, thermally highly resilient, electrically insulating, and can be shaped using both woodworking and metalworking techniques. It is a fascinating material because, unlike thermoplastics, the starting materials do not perish and the design principle remains visible: The texture of the backing fabric shines through clearly even when sanded and polished. Its structure remains visible in the material. By the way, the preference for hard fabric is not a quirk of ours; we share it, for example, with the manufacturers of high-quality knives. Micarta, which is highly valued by collectors as a hilt material, is often nothing other than ... hard fabric.