[Review] Shumate "Curved" Tungsteel 1904-1920

[ischiapp]

Technical Data
Manufacturer: Shumate Razors
Web: Vintage (http://straightrazorplace.com/razor-clubs/24330-shumate-shaving-society.html)
Region: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Model: Curved Tungsteel
Type: Straight Razor
Date: 1904 - 1920
Weight: 29g
Lenght Total: 238mm
Lenght Blade: 70mm
Width Blade: 13mm / +4/8
Depth Spine: 4mm
Grind: Full Hollow
Point: Square Point
Decoration: No
Jimps: Down
Shoulder: 2 Stab
Lenght Handle: 133mm
Scales: Black, Plastic, Cream Wedge, Tungsteel in white
Steel: Sheffield, six temper






FULLSIZE: PIC1 1500x661px / PIC2 1500x525px / PIC3 1500x889 / PIC4 1500x464px

Review
Price: 10/10
Taken from Altus@ilRasoio, in the forum BST, the price of €50 including shipping for this little gem was a real bargain, in my opinion.

Quality: 9/10
Simple but perfectly calibrated. Just perfect.

Grip: 7/10
The knurling just down, with smooth and rounded spine, saw the light weight and small size does not give issue about controllin, although it is not the most solid grip desirable.

Ease of use: 10/10
It's the thinner blade than I have at the moment, and the lightest.
Practically a butterfly alights gently tight and difficult areas. View the smile conformation, or better to say "Curved" since everything including the spine is arched, as the vintage ad says at the time: <The only kind That will give a clean, "smartless" shave>. This because it reproduces a slide cutting, usually associated with safety razors of the "Slant" type.

Aggressiveness: 7/10
It's a steel very "soft" and gentle on the skin .
A great Sheffield , easy to sharpen ... easy to love.

Conclusion: 10/10
The only Shumate in my possession at the moment, but I was very favorably impressed. This in particular is a little jewel, so pleasant that I consider the small blades with new eyes.

[Gago]

The smiling razor 

Nice review, amici. 

[ischiapp]

Thank You, Gabriel

[Stützel]

Thank You. 

[FML]

Very interesting!

ischiapp, do you feel any difficulty to hone such a curved blade?

[Fialho]

Cool.

[orlandosn]

A great looking razor and a great review.
Thanks!

[goaman]

Nice review! Thanks for sharing Pierpaolo!!

[cariocarj01]

Molto buona revisione Pierpaolo. 

Grazie. 

[ischiapp]

Thank You, Guys


@FML
Sheffield steel is very easy to hone, and smiling is not a problem: it is not smiling.
It is curved ... all the blade, so geometry is projected to be honed as a normal straight blade.

[GADREL]

Wow!
Great!!!
 

[Mauricio SuperShaveMan]

Nice review! 

[Nuno Sá]

 Never seen that razor. Thank´s for sharing and for the illustrated review.