ShavingUniverse visits Ralf Aust straight razor manufactury in Solingen, Germany

I met Ralf Aust in his office in Solingen (Germany) in December 2018. He showed me his office, the machines he is using and how he makes custom scales and the honing and leathering of his straight razors.

Since I had more meetings at the same day with other manufactories of straight razors in Solingen (more videos to come), we had no time to demonstrate all steps of the classic workflow from the raw material to the final product. All steps are made manually by Mr. Aust himself. Everything made in Germany.

Ralf Aust is one of the few German companies who still has the know how to produce straight razors in the "old fashioned" way = hand made. He is well known internationally and regarded as one of the best straight razor manufactories in the world.

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