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04-13-2015, 07:50 AM #1
With all the due respect, but saying Mastro Livi is not a really well known knifemaker, makes me smile. He makes super high quality knives and razors, he carries on a family heritage about knives, razors, scissors, swords and many other cutting tools, which started early in the 1700s. He is one of the very few here in Italy who is capable of honing microtome blades and he does that by hand, just his hands and a grinder.
Mastro Livi indisputably is the one who started everything about the "custom straight razor" making: I am sure without him the world of artisan straight razor would not be the one we know it today. And his razors are looked for by most of the wet shavers in the world.
As far as I can tell, no one in the world did what Mastro Livi did in 60 years of passionate commitment for his job and straight razors. And he keeps on developing new ideas and new ways about steels and razors, last but not the least, the breathtaking "CarboInox" and, as far as I can tell, I have never seen anything similar in the straight razor scene.The RazorGuy - StraightRazorChannel on Youtube and Google+
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04-13-2015, 03:52 PM #2No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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04-13-2015, 08:06 PM #3
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Thanked: 522Can't insert photo from my phone.
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OOOPS! Pass the styptic please.
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04-13-2015, 08:09 PM #4
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Thanked: 522That is identical to my Livi except mine came as a set with loom strop and brush with stag handles also.
JERRY
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04-13-2015, 08:29 PM #5
Here ya go ........... ( an 8/8 ladder damascus)
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04-14-2015, 03:25 AM #6
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Thanked: 522Thanks to Jimmy for posting photos of my LIVI Set. He is the previous owner and I think Lynn A. had it before him. According to the story I remember hearing, I am approximately the fourth owner of this beautiful set. I might add that the razor is a purely fantastic shave machine. I am the last owner while I live. Thanks again Jimmy ...............
JERRY
OOOPS! Pass the styptic please.
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04-20-2015, 03:15 PM #7
@Razorguy,
On Mastro Livi's loom strops, what is the yellow colored material?
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04-20-2015, 03:16 PM #8
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04-20-2015, 03:17 PM #9
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