Thread: OCD Razor swapped for historical wood

Originally Posted by mglindo

What a coincidence. Constitution day is TODAY! September 17.

Cool! Let's bring that thing back into effect, shall we?

Hey ....... I've got some old wood around here ........... ..............

Originally Posted by boballman

A friend of mine, Jaydee, spent some time while in the Naval Reserves aboard the USS Constitution. The ship is constantly being refitted, with only about 15% of the wood being from the original build. He sent me a small package with some stabilized wood. When I called to thank him he explained that most of the wood was Douglas fir that was not from the original build. There were 2 pieces that were original oak from the 1795 build. Original wood from the oldest commissioned warship in the world....pretty damn cool!!! He also included a few pieces of Kauri, ancient wood from New Zealand. This stuff is at least 60,000 years old, also cool.

When I asked what I could possibly do to pay for all this, he said "money can't buy this...I want one of your razors". So here it is.
I regret that the only 2 pictures I have of it are a couple I took with my cell phone to send to him via text message. It is a 8/8's square point with jimps on top and bottom and on the front of the nose instead of a barbers notch. The grind is full hollow and the finish is near-mirror. All the lines are straight and angular, modern looking, so I put silver twill (like silver carbon fiber) scales with a polished aluminum spacer.

As always, thanks for looking
Bob at OCD Razors

Very nice piece of work! I didn't know of any razor builders in this part of the country until now. I saw one you made a few years ago that went to a young fella in Switzerland with zebra wood scales. That too was a very beautiful razor.
Steve

Originally Posted by Wullie

Ancient Kauri harvesting.

The Ancient Kauri Kingdom Extraction Process on Vimeo

BIG trees! Would have been interesting to see the forest in its prime.

You could get kinda lotta razor scales from it...