Thread: An idea...

No doubt someone has thought of this before, but...

While I was looking at one of my razors today, I wound up wondering about it's history (as per usual) and wishing I could know a little more about it, about who owned it and so on. As a result, I wound up coming up with an idea.

I've decided that for each one of my razors, I'm going to keep a small piece of paper, stored in the razor box about where I got it, when I purchased it and any other information I have about the razor's history, with just a little bit of information about myself. Who I am, where I'm from, what I do, that sort of thing.

Because I'm not planning on having children, and even if I do it's questionable if they will be male, and even so, if they'll use a straight razor I imagine that when I die, my razors will be cast to the winds (though I also plan to ask my loved ones to do their best to find other straight razor shavers to pass the razors on to, I don't like the idea of them sitting in a drawer). That way, any future owners will have a least a little more of a glimpse in to the razor's past life than I had when I came in to possesion of them. The way razors are built to last, who's to say someone else won't be holding one of my currently hundred year old razors in another hundred years and thinking about it's history?

What do you guys think? Am I just being silly or is it something you think is worth doing?

Well... I think it's a beautiful idea. Ideed... It's rather philosophical, also. I only have one razor (yet...) and although I am not planing on being dead any time soon (but who knows...) I kind of think like that. Razors are built to last, that's for sure. You will not find, sitting in a closet or something, a Mach3 that belonged to your long departed great-grandfather... But razors are built to last.
I like vintage stuff - from clothes to cars and razors... (despite the fact that I don't like vintage women... and computers...) and I am now searching for my second razor. I am simply waiting to find the razor I will fall in love with. My Dovo was bought in second hand and I often think that there's a history to this razor of mine. I am also waiting for my grandmother to "pass on" to me the razor that belonged to her father. My great-grandfather died in 1974 so...
Well... I'm just writing with no objective so, I'll stop now. But I think it's a beautiful idea. Poethic.
For what it's worth - not knowing anything about you - I think you should do it. Someone will find it interesting to know more about the fabulous piece of precison craftsmanship that he will be handling... I know I would.

Best regards, mate!

Thanks, I'm glad someone else seems to like the idea. Maybe if a few other people pick it up, we can add a bit more in the way of documentation for our hobby over the years.

I've said many tmes that whenever we pick up a vintage straight we are continuing a tradition started by the first person who used that razor. Even though we know nothing about that person though I wish I did. Who knows in a hundred or two hundred years from now someone using one of your razors will think about you living in the archaic past before cars were abolished and when people still died of all kinds of diseases and before people started living on the moon. Who knows. But yours is a good idea. But will people still be able to read our language or will it be like people trying to read aramaic or ancient greek?

I think this is a great idea! I think it would be fantastic to find one of those notes in the box of a vintage I bought, do you think anyone had this idea in their hayday? I wonder if any old times thought into the future and wrote one, maybe for future grandsons etc...