The Claus company was founded as Elyria shear works in 1877 by John and Henrie Clauss in Elyria, Ohio. At one time the company was the largest global manufacturer of scissors and shears. The two brothers John and Henrie Clauss, of German origan started Elyria Shear Works from a one-room building in Elyria, Ohio. Together with five employees, they began manufacturing scissors, shears, straight razors and serrated kitchen knifes. The company has a rich history, and is one of the few that remains standing untill this day, as far as I can tell they stopped producing razors around the time of the second world war.
This razor is fairly light at 35 grams as it has quite a thin blade (spine 4.5 mm) and scales, but is of normal size, blade height is set at 16 mm or 5/8ths. It has no spine wear, but the blade has some marks and spots where we removed contamination, the bevel looks pretty good and it honed up easily. The scales are slightly loose in the fully closed position, but tensions up when opened up to the position it is used in for shaving. the scales, wedge and pinning looks fairly good apart from one washer sinking in a bit, but it functions well, and spending more time on this razor is not sensible considering the price we wanted to list it at.
The razor strops easily on a paddle and hanging strop. The shave was...(to be tested)
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