Thread: Straight Razor shaving as a personality trait

Got it...Thanks.

I even experimented (with another chemist friend) on making chocolates...for our own enjoyment of course, not a business. We got different chocolates from different regions of the world, adopted high-throughput combinatorial techniques to mix them in various combination, ratios, and added "stuff" (orange, blueberry, etc..flavors) to it. It was a lot of fun

Robert

Originally Posted by Timedwards

Hmm. Refining my original point:

We enjoy craftsmanship.

It takes time and skill to craft:
A cup of tea, espresso, whisky, etc...
Cars, guns, blades, cigars
Foods, Chocolate included

However, we take it a step forward and find some sort of art in using these items as well.

I would have to say that you are correct in your assumptions excepts I also collect watches, jeans, and coins. I am also 29 years old maybe I am just old at heart.

I'm thinking I'm just a old timey hobbiest...

Beer
Old razors, no froo froo blades please...
Guns (a must) older the better
Coins, again, no froo froo pieces
Oh the list goes on...

I like older ways of doing things, if you can get an item and use it all your life and hand it down to your kids, it's worth having. Modern trash just seems to be that... Dressed up trash...

Yep, I like 'em all apart from the cigars. I've toyed with the idea, but I decided its too expensive and really bad for your health.

I also play guitar, enjoy the odd bit of fishing, I love to cook and I like cycling too.

I Guess you could say I'm prone to hobbies I seam to collect them actually and it drives my wife nuts. Most of these by the way at some point where near obsessions. A short list Starting from the younger years. Lego's, Model building, Kites, R.C. car's, Kayak's only owned one but looked at them constantly. Cars had a 68 Camaro RS. and just Love cars. ,Wood working and metal working. I'm just a novice. , And I'll stop there but if I thought A little I could make a much bigger list.

For me it is mostly doing things myself: woodworking, messing with old vehicles, engines and everything that moves. Putting things to pieces and (hopefully) back together. Learning why they work the way they do. My wife says that most of my projects are things that turn gasoline into noise. I enjoy when i get something done after putting some efforts into it. Learning from it.
I try to learn to take decent photos also and read both non-fiction and fiction. I have several old hand tools and knives, but i can't say that i collect them. I rather use them.
For the rest of my time i try to fix this old house, walk our 3 dogs and try to raise 2 teenagers with my wife.

Malt whiskey on rare occasions. I'm a beer man. Vana Tallinn liqueur man too.
No cigars, but good pipe.
No espresso, but just plain black coffee or earl grey tea.
No firearms at home. I work at the armed service so i see and handle enough of those when at service. As an exception at home i have m/28 rifle used by our forces in WW2, but i've deactivated it by storing the bolt at my work.
I have no sport cars but 3 two-wheelers. One is in pieces, waiting that i get an inspiration to fix it.

Maybe i'm just doing these things to make my time pass nicely by.

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

I'm thinking I'm just a old timey hobbiest...

Beer
Old razors, no froo froo blades please...
Guns (a must) older the better
Coins, again, no froo froo pieces
Oh the list goes on...

I like older ways of doing things, if you can get an item and use it all your life and hand it down to your kids, it's worth having. Modern trash just seems to be that... Dressed up trash...

I also have a strong reverence for older ways. Except for cars. To the annoyance of all of my friends, I like newer cars much more than I do older cars. Give me an Audi S5 over a '67 Challenger any day.

That does not include the old '54 Mercedes SLS:


Not even the brand new sls can capture that style.

I've noticed this trend here before as well. We do have a lot of common interests, and I think it mostly boils down to an appreciation for the care taken to accomplish something. I enjoy expensive handmade stuff not because I want to show off, but because I like knowing that a craftsman actually cared enough to make it.

I'm also motivated to learn to do as much myself as possible, part of that comes from me being an engineer, and wanting to understand how everything works. Drives my fiance nuts with all the random projects I always talk about.

Originally Posted by bbshriver

...Drives my fiance nuts...

Men of experience: Does this ever lessen? Do they ever come to accept it?

Thanks guys for turning this into self reliance and appreciation of carefully crafted things; rather than obsession, ADs, and pompous excess.

As I look around the place I notice I have a lot of things, maybe too many.

Sometimes I will have a thing in my hand, whatever it is, which causes me to pause for a moment. I get a very nice feeling of appreciation. In a quantum sense there may be more nothing there than anything solid, but there it is perfectly formed to my use.

Anytime my wife gets upset about such things it reminds me that maybe I have identified too much with having it or another one. If I really need something or she does there is no problem. But if it only truly serves to add to my sense of identity-which 20 dollar cigars and 80 dollar bottles of scotch tend to do.........