I am not, in general, strongly into custom razors. I have no doubts about their quality or such, but usually the aesthetics don't appeal. However, whenever I saw one of Charlie Lewis' (a.k.a. Spazola) razors posted online, the appeal could not be denied. I find his work balanced finely between primitive and sophisticated, organic and deliberate.

And with every post I saw, I found myself ever more desirous, until I could resist no more and I requested one.

I asked the man himself to make me a razor, saying only that I wanted nothing larger than 8/8, the hollower the better, and I like long tails. This is what came of that.

It is rough, intentionally so, with the sinuous curves of a snake. It is notched subtly for the thumb, and the long tail balances the heavy blade nicely. the scales are one-piece G10, textured by hand to match the shank.

It is rare for custom makers to make hollow ground razors; I assume due to the extreme difficulty, this was a skill hard-won even for the traditional razor grinders. But this razor is well ground, thicker than, say, a singing razor but hollow indeed.

It shaves well and clean, though it is longer than the razors I'm used to. I love pretty much everything about it, and I am deply grateful to Charlie for his hard work in making it. 

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