Thread: Beware!!

​​​Newcomers beware! There is an insidious malady that afflicts many who tread these electronic halls...AND YOU COULD BE NEXT!! The infirmity I speak of is one of the mind and of the soul! And once this disease....this blight...this...affliction latches onto a poor innocent, that unfortunate is lost to its vile clutches! And woe I say, WOE unto the sad miscreant's purse, for it shall soon be lighter!

"What is this ailment?", you ask. "Is it the drink, Dzanda, or perhaps the ponys, or cards and dice? Or could you mean consorting with slatterns? Or....no...you can't mean...JAZZ!?!"

No...I speak of RAD. Not the Royal Academy of Dance, but RAZOR ACQUISITION DISORDER!

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OK. All silliness aside, I became infected on January third, 2014; that's the day when I purchased my first straight razor. Less than four months have passed...even less since I actually started shaving...and that first razor now has plenty of company:

While I can't compete with some aflictees, who due to the demands of politeness and decency shall go unnamed (DennisBarberShop), I'm genuinely shocked by this development. I naively believed that I'd stop at four, maybe five razors. But here I am, with 21 already (the one that started it all isn't the photo...that one's with gssixgun, having his magic worked on it)!

*SHEESH!*

...about my motley collection, here's the list, going by rows starting at the top, left:

Wood; Wood of York, in horn
SPIKE; Union Cutlery Co., in celluloid
NON-XLL MEDIUM SIZE HOLLOW GROUND; Joseph Allen & Sons, in rustic wood

ATOR "Shorty"; ERN, in celluloid
Carbo Magnetic; Griffon Cutlery, in celluloid
HAIRENIK; ??, in bone

'Whip'; The Torrey Razor Co., in celluloid?
X☆; Klas Tornblum, in celluloid
??; The Torrey Razor Co., in celluloid?

THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY PIPE RAZOR; Geo. Wostenholm & Son, in faux picked antler? celluloid
Keen Kutter Blue Steel; Simmons Hardware, in broken celluloid?
The Barber's Delight; ??, in celluloid

FIESTA; Union Cutlery Co., in celluloid
I. S. SYDNOR; ??, in horn
NON-XLL MEDIUM SIZE HOLLOW GROUND; Joseph Allen & Sons, in horn

??; Wm Elliot, in wood-grain celluloid
DOUBLY CARBONIZED IXL RAZOR; Geo. Wostenholm & Son, in celluloid
CROWN & SWORD; ERN, in celluloid?

ERN; C. Fried. Ern, in broken celluloid
??; Jon Engström, in celluloid?
THE IMPERIAL RAZOR FULLY WARRANTED, ??, in broken faux bamboo celluloid

Oh, you poor, poor bastige.

Wow, I only have five . . . somehow, I'm feeling inadequate.

Seriously though Dzanda, have you watched Lynn's video yet? There's a segment in his video where he highlights some of his collection (keyword "some"). There has to be approximately 120 razors on the table in that segment of the video.

Yeah, I've seen that video. But I'm not too concerned...Lynn has a considerable head start on me!

Sweet collection. I have also become infected with about 10 in just about 2 months!!

This to shall pass,most will end up being more ebay fodder down the road.
Is a continuous circle,cannot tell you how many Blades I have sold that keep showing up in the classifieds or the bay

That's a nice ATOR! Pretty certain the scales are of Bakelite!

Wait a minute! Just which definition of "bastige" did you mean??!!??

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Oh, you poor, poor bastige.

Oh! The nice one, of course!