Thread: I´ve completely failed

I was confused by the title, I sure don't see any failure in those scales you just made. They look very good on that classy blade. You may have failed to save a ton of money but sounds like you gained a ton of fun. That is the kind of failure I can and do live with. Welcome to the club.

Bob

Looks great

LOL Bob, the title was more like a comic irony, yeah i failed to save money(wich was the original plan with this) , but gained something i find truly fantastic. so i kinda failed and won on the same time.

I had the some problem with saving money. When I first decided to pick up straight shaving, I was really hoping to save money. I was going to buy only one vintage razor (at least for the next year or longer), one strop, use the cheap boar brush I started with, and always use cheap to medium priced soaps and creams.
Needless to say, the AD's took over and I went from around $90 (which I thought was very good compared to what most people spend) for a decent quality strop and Genco Head Barber 5/8, to now having spent several hundred dollars on everything from a badger brush (swore I would never drop the $$ for) to expensive shaving creams and soaps (also swore not to drop the cash for). However, I can honestly say this new hobby is my favorite!

"May the Straights of Heaven open up and lead you to tranquility."

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