any one that knows why these are so much this is the third one to pop up
kind regards peter
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Custom-Straig...QQcmdZViewItem
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any one that knows why these are so much this is the third one to pop up
kind regards peter
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Custom-Straig...QQcmdZViewItem
Seems very expensive to me, but what do I know.
Found it very anoying reading it through.
Steven
The exclamation marks raise the value :D
what a wacko! the artisan made 5/6 razors in her life??? :eek:
It IS a beautiful razor for sure. I would love to have it - for $50 or so, maybe even 100. However, "must in any collection" - whatever
Unless some expert comes here (e.g. Lynn) and says that's the best razor he has even tried, he borrowed it for just one shave only from an old barber who's the unknown son of a russian tzar killed by workers after the Revolution, women and kids wisper legends about the razor at night before bedtime, and men kill to get their hands on one of the 6 razors ever produced, and when you collect them all you become the master of the world...
Cheers
Ivo
ps I am going to actually send the seller a message to offer to buy it for $50 just to rattle his chain a bit :roflmao - stay tuned for an update
Lol Ivo, that's a good one. You rock bro :tu
Make sure you question the quality of the steel in the razor. How you are unsure if it will take a good hone.
Of course if you want to just be flat insulting you can tell him, that everyone know's it's old barber's stock that collectors want. And you can pick up a new Dovo for around $60 bucks.
Nah - that's mean :D
Eloi does some high-end stuff, no question about it. But I haven't heard much about razors... Regardless, there's no way only 5 or 6 razors were produced. The real question is who made them and how... I doubt the razor was hand-forged, and even if it were - who is this master forger from the 1960s, one of the best that ever existed?
Cheers
Ivo
Lol, here's the response I got:
"This is NOT industrial ELOI razors !! This is CUSTOM from directly Mr.ELOI handmade !!This is different !! ..The Handles is in Ivory Mammouth with the age of 40000 years ago !! The Hollow ground Blade is in Carbon Steel handforged and handmade Mirror finish !...Regards!!"
I did some quick research. Eloi died in '63 so he COULD have worked on a razor earlier... I have sent an e-mail to the distributor to see if there are any Eloi straight razors available. Eloi was endorsed by Vuitton, Hermes, etc. so I am not expecting anything cheap... let's wait and see
Cheers
Ivo
Whats with all the exclamation marks?!!!!
Ivo,
I'm a writer by profession, and this response was almost enough to make me die laughing. Under normal circumstances I find grammer, spelling and punctuation to be humorous, but this ... I nearly choked I was laughing so hard. :roflmao
Thanks for being our own SRP Borat. :D
Josh
Talking about expensive - I was looking at EBay the other week and saw a NOS Norton barbers hone and the bidding was up to $365.00.:roflmao
If he wants people to take him, and the razor, seriously, he really shouldn't have put in all those exclamation marks. Makes him look about two.
Steven
Nerobot,
Love your signature file--I write shorthand, too. Like straight razor shaving, it's a dying art form. I may copy your idea, if you wouldn't mind.
To those who would pick on my spelling: This is a "known issue," as they say in the technical fields. :D I've always had a spelling problem, which is ironic for someone who does as much proofreading as I do. I think I may have a mild, undiagnosed case of dyslexia. :) It does make me more aware of little things when I'm writing, but sometimes things slip through... :)
Josh
Josh, feel free to use the idea. I fyou don't mind me asking, what form of shorthand do you write? I write greggs simplified.
Steven
I started with Simplified, but there wasn't enough literature written in it for me to practice reading, so I decided to switch to Anniversary. I wish there was more out there for Simplified, because I think with Anniversary I'm going to have to practice a lot more or I'll just forget it...
Josh
That's funny. I started with Anniversary, it found that the book was really difficult to learn from, and so then went to Simplified.
Steven
It is very difficult to learn from. Since I was already familiar with Simplified, learning the extra stuff wasn't too bad.
Whoa, I really hijacked this thread. Apologies all around. :)
Josh
What does it say?:OT
As for funny grammar, I love what I often read on Chinese packages. No, I don't read the Chinese, but the english translations are sometimes crazier than this Monsieur Elios supporter. I know it's just because English isn't their first langusge, but man can it be funny sometimes.
X
You can get the same effect by taking Shakespeare and running it into chinese then back again with babelfish or google translate.
His sig says "straight razor place .com."
Shorthand is phonetic. Each sound is represented by a single stroke that's quick to execute.
To write "straight," you sound it out--"strayt." You start with the short curved line on the left--that's S. The quick upstroke is T. The R is the downward curve, then the big loop is the long A sound. Then another upstroke for the final T.
It takes a lot of time and practice to learn, but it's amazingly fast when you're good. Good courtroom stenographers could take 200 words per minute. Average conversation in the U.S. is about 150. The top shorthand writers could write 300 to 350 wpm. Insane stuff, really.
Josh