Thread: I´ve completely failed

Gargoyle47,

I'm going to have to join your club. I failed too... Ain't it great! I'm not even a month in and I already have three razors!

Bruce

Your doing great with the restores. Who needs money anyway? I am still buying Mach 3's myself. Just so in a hundred years I can sell them on z-bay and get big bucks for NOS vintage razors. I am storing them right next to my 14 cases of Twinkies in the closet.

It's a bit like fly fishing. People hear the word fishing & think it's inexpensive.

Welcome to SRP

You have done very well. Each of the straight razors that you restore can be resold at any time for more than you have into them. Financially you will be in a breakeven or better position. That is what most people call a good hobby........... and you get a great shave!

Very nice!

Thanks guys

10pups twinkiecloset made me think of a story.... we don´t have twinkies here in Denmark, what we have is a brand called "Dancake" they´ve been around forever, and have achieved kinda cultish status with stuff like "lemon moon" (translated from danish) and "roulade" which is kind of a sugarcoated layercake bun rolled up with rasberry jelly in between. now this story is from a friends parents.
sometimes down the 80´s they had a new roof done, 15 years or so pass by and for some reason theyre rummaging around on the attic and find a "roulade" that they have forgotten between the rafters, now although the hermetically sealed package looks dusty, the content looked fine... now these people are really brave and they dare to open and taste the cake ....and it tasted and felt exactly like a cake bought the same day..... really makes you wonder what they put in that stuff in a postapocalyptic future twinkies and dancake will still be a viable foodsource

@randycake hmm havent thought of that....but a good point i shall certainly use down the road, when the wife rolls eyes (again)

by the way, for those interested i posted some more pics of above project onthis thread: http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...t-restore.html

Your doing great man! If you can make scales like that already I'm sure you'll do great once you start learning to hone, I'm just starting to get the basics of honing down myself but I really need to make some scales I already bought different kinds of wood and I got a bandsaw for that specific purpose. ARgh, I'm going to sit down and trace out some scale designs right now.

Originally Posted by saitou

Your doing great man! If you can make scales like that already I'm sure you'll do great once you start learning to hone, I'm just starting to get the basics of honing down myself but I really need to make some scales I already bought different kinds of wood and I got a bandsaw for that specific purpose. ARgh, I'm going to sit down and trace out some scale designs right now.

have fun

I am in exactly same boat ...bought a scroll saw some olive,walnut and zebrano for exactly that purpose of making scales. now the only problem is that i live in an appartment on 2nd floor but luckily have a balcony and its mighty cold in denmark right now (with wind it feels like -20 degrees celcius) so most of my shaping and polishing happens over the kitchen sink..... luckily i have a (most of time) understaning wife ....well sort of

I'm a little put off by the way wetshaving gets promoted. I do not agree that any rationale that gets someone into the hobby is a good one. Still, glad you're having fun and hope you continue to play with razors and do rescales and the like.

yes, well, maybe we should put up a sticky informing newbes that the "you can save money this way" scheme is valid only if you buy ONE razor, one brush etc, and that it's mostly used to convince SWAMBO and nothing else. I'm very conservative in my purchases, been at it for almost 2 years and "only" have a couple of boar brushes, 4 razors and one on the way... I'll probably break even in about 5 years if I stop buying hardware now and buy just software (soaps and such). I can think of at least 2 more razors I want... it's like I "saved"a ton of money by buying all my scuba equipment (for real) only it still cost me almost 8k$ over the years... just the yearly inspection of all my regulators and stuff is about 350$. come to think of it, I met my wife on a diving safari, so scuba probably cost me a lot more