Premium 6/8" straight razor handmade in France.  Carbon steel.  Extra full hollow ground.  Includes leather sheath.

The “Le Chatellerault” is an extra full ground special razor, because the molten steel used was forged in the early 20th century for Jacob HOLTZER; the steel was forged then, and thereafter tempered/ground/polished/laser engraved/sharpened/scaled by the Thiers-Issard of today.  Likely in pockets of cutlery of the EU there are more still opportunities for historic forgings, so it is sort of like buying “whisky with a story”, as I like to call it – this steel is not the Carbonsong C135 of TI’s own creation as on almost every other razor they make.  Not quite the same as any other modern forged TI, and so whether that is a good or bad thing is for you to decide, but a collector should have one, I suspect.  Being as the razor is indeed from old forgings, there are always subtle variances from piece to piece, because they didn’t necessarily use the same forging die for each piece, even though they did likely use the same raw blank of steel to smack in to those various dies.  So, while it doesn’t have “natural” variances such as a wood or horn razor, we have shown them individually here, and you can select the exact 'specimen' you want.

The razor comes with their basic black lambskin pouch, has expertly-produced scales made of noble bocote wood, and weighs about fifty grams.

It is not the equal of 6/8″ to the modern Evide Sonnant Extra in the quoted-vs-actual-width, though the ’round’ head used here does in fact look just like the modern ESEs, with the rather crisp terminus.

If you would like to have your razor further honed post-factory by The Superior Shave, please indicate in a "note to seller" or message.