Christmas spoils, 2017

Hope Santa found you all.
My clan treated me well this year, as always.
Nice Proraso shave kit with a balm to try. Lee Valley Tools gift card, neat little key and wallet tracker called Tile. Passive chip technology that works with gps and phone app. No more lost keys or wallet!
And a cool couple ready made Swedish Steel knife blanks to try to make handles for.
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An upgraded jewelers glasses set to help me see what I’m do8ng as well!
Cheers men
Merry Christmas to you all.
So?.. whatcha get?..

I got a very nice Brian Brown razor that shaves like dream and some of my favorite Ogallala products. Merry Christmas!Attachment 281060Attachment 281061

Merry Christmas Brian.
Nice profile to that Brown sir!
Enjoy!

There is a lull at our house, so I have had a chance to shoot a couple of quick pics. This year my wife and children really nailed it and got me an Ed Brice razor with a really nice worked spine and my birth stone mounted in it.
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@Mike
That set of magnifiers look pretty sweet. As does the rest of the haul. I am going to have to google those glasses. They are so needed which doing fine work. I bet you use yours for all kinds of different projects.

That blade is super sexy Shaun! Nice present sir, enjoy it thoroughly. Looks like it will be a hoot to get used too.

Regarding the visor, I have the older style type jewelers glasses that fit like a welding mask all ready. This new set is 100X more comfortable. No ‘ring around the forehead’ as the weight is entirely on the nose piece and arms. Plus the arms can be removed and a headband swapped in for increased wearing options.
Never knew they made them, my boy knows me well though so they are going to be appreciated.
https://www.amazon.ca/Fancii-Headban...eywords=Fansii
Betting it came from here as my lad is a prime member.

Also, seems our man Scott is in the apothecary business maybe, hehe.
My daughter grabbed me some bay rum body wash that smells great!
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Cheers all.

My Christmas spoils was a Chubby 3 Manchurian and Penhaligons Hammam Bouquet.

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I got three, $100 gift cards ( so I can buy what I want ) and a puck of shave soap from Ireland. Tried the soap yesterday, liked it so well, I'm going for another round of it today..!
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Some nice loot there! I got a new 2-band (2m and 70cm) radio and a 1945 Vibroplex Deluxe semiautomatic Morse key with near perfect chrome:

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Nice loot gents.
Killer looking brush, and great sounding soap.

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Cheers!

Got some much needed .22 ammo and the flu.

I went from having zero scuttles to getting all these this Christmas. There's a Schwarzweisskeramik scuttle and freestyle mug, and a Dirty Bird scuttle too.
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Only one gift for me, my girlfriends credit card and a trip to Ralph Lauren for a suit .
Cant wait :)

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Nice loot gents.
Killer looking brush, and great sounding soap.

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Cheers!

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Only one gift for me, my girlfriends credit card and a trip to Ralph Lauren for a suit .
Cant wait :)

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For what... When she wants you to take it off.!!? :angel:

Great thread guys and some great gifts!!!!

Tuzi, I think you're going to love the Schwarzweisskeramik. I have the same one and it is hands down my favorite of anything I've used

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Got some much needed .22 ammo and the flu.

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Did you really need the flu? :)

Rocking turntable and several LP's to go with it....couple from each, Pink Floyd (Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle), Bob Dylan x 2, Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy, and a trip down to Queen West tomorrow to a vintage massive record shop....haven't put a needle to an LP in 25/30 years...can't beat that analog sound.

Hooked it up to my Bowe's TV sound system, good powerful amp, but tempted to pull my Yamaha 110 Watt a side amp out and dig out my old massive tower speakers, but so much real estate....glad I garbage bagged them and stored them thinking one day, old amp, even a Yamaha cassette deck, but don't think mixed tapes will make a comeback....LOL.

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon....spinning a classic.

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Dark Side of the Moon, surely their Magnum Opus. Still makes my heart race and my head giddy after listening to it for nearly 30 years.

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Dark Side of the Moon, surely their Magnum Opus. Still makes my heart race and my head giddy after listening to it for nearly 30 years.

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Agreed, it's like MdC, just the pinnacle, but Animals and especially Meddle, the Echoes side for me are pure bliss....next LP to find is this classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPq1tnrH_eM

Nice that lp’s are makin* a comeback!
We need a new turntable to play all the old stacks.
Great gift!
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Perhaps I was naughty this year. I had four Shaving related items on my list and none of them found their way to the Christmas tree. So....an order was placed yesterday for a jar of Baume.be shaving cream. I also ordered a stick of Harris shaving soap for a relative that uses a DE.

I got a pile of vintage and strange things over the last 6 months. Put it in a pile and told my daughters to divvy it up and give it back to me.
I got all this plus the Proraso single blade shaving cream as well.
Pictured in the 2nd pic.

I DID reward myself with a fine pair of razors.
I have not had time to properly photograph them yet.
With all that is going on here, they will sit a bit more, I reckon!

I will add them later.

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Did you really need the flu? :)

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I did not. Neither did my wife or my son. It is miserable

I was feeling your pain, Christmas Eve. But luckily I was ok by noon the next day

So... I took one if my gift cards, n hopped in the truck, this morning. Made the 1/2 hr. Drive to Imperial shave, for my Christmas goodies. Nothing better than on- line, in real life. Makes ya like a sex maniac in a house of ill repute, once you walk thru the doors. But I only got what I wanted, and a few items that I'm due to run out of, soon.

So here's "MY" Christmas. My wife forgot to give me the model plane, it was under some stuff on the back seat of her car. BONUS.!!
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Whiskey woods sounds interesting. Await the review.
Nice swag Mike!
Hohoho.

Yeppers, you made out like a bandit!!!!!!

I'm also waiting to hear about how these are. They seem interesting to say the least