Iwasaki 50mm Straight Razor in a Paulownia Box

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Former Product Id: 05.001


Our traditional Japanese razor is hand forged Swedish High Carbon Steel by Shigeyoshi Iwasaki, a licensed sword maker. Mr. Iwasaki was born in 1933 and was trained by among others his father a metallurgist famous for classifying Japanese steels i.e. "yellow paper", "white paper", "blue paper" etc.  Mr. Iwasaki has demonstrated Japanese knife making at many venues. He also took part in an investigation of ancient swords and knives kept at Syousou-In, a treaure house built in the 8th century. When not in his forged, he teaches technical skills and metallurgy theory to young blacksmiths. Blade length is 50mm (1-15/16˝) and overall length is 170mm (6½&#733);.