Thread: E-gamble

Morning gents.
Won an auction as the soul bidder on a bunch of old barber shop bling.
won it for 10 bucks, plus 20 shipping.
what I am really curious about from the pics are these stones. any guesses before they come as to what I may have?
no idea what I have yet. But sometimes a gamble pays off.
Can always end up shadow box materials if they are crappy rocks.
cheers all.

I think that your gamble paid off well. The ones o\n the left were a common size of Thuringian stone. The color of the bottom two makes me drool! I found one of that size and coloration and it is a super fine finisher. They often came in sets with the Belgian Blue/ Coticle as a pair. Similar to the second stone down in that pile!
Good luck and enjoy! I do hope you are a straight razor shaver to fully enjoy your good fortune!
~Richard

Thanks for the feedback Richard.
I am waiting on a 12k cnat I ordered as I do not currently have a really fine stone. I am a new str8 shaver and honer since last August.
I have a norton 4/8 k , king 1k, couple of barber hones, and now these coming in the mail.
Once they are lapped I'll follow up with how they perform.
Glad to know I may have a few gems in there!
Cheers.

Looks like your gamble paid off. Are the two stones on the bottom of the left pile concave? Looks like the stones they used for razor blades. I would take the weight off the strops so they don't crease. I want to hear that 45.

I haven't received the shipment as yet, those pics are the ones I bid from.
I hope that old record will flatten as its a cardboard backed promo, but I'm totally going to try and play/convert it to digital and will figure a way to post it here if I do for all to enjoy.
Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Louise, and the hilos,, could be 15 minutes of music that are just made for the shave cave..
Will advise..

So I received my package of goodies and have completed the re-lapping of the hones.
This being a vintage barber eBay lot I should have figured most would be barber hones and they are.
There's a swaty, a magnahone from LA, and a few other courser carborundum hones. All synthetic except for one really fine one that I thought had pen marks on it, but after honing I'm finding they remain and may be veins of blue in the stone. Never seen that before.
Anyway, still happy for the score and will play with the stones some and see what kind of edge they give me.



Have the record pressed under a dictionary to try to take the curl out of her before I try to play her.
Cheers..

Originally Posted by MikeB52

So I received my package of goodies and have completed the re-lapping of the hones.....snip...
Anyway, still happy for the score and will play with the stones some and see what kind of edge they give me.



Have the record pressed under a dictionary to try to take the curl out of her before I try to play her.
Cheers..

Nice haul! Some good ones there!
~Richard

The record I received with my grab bag of shaving goodies plays quite well.
The cool thing bout the net is some sharp shaved gentleman already converted it and posted it on line.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39fbK-8...%3D39fbK-8S1ZI