60 Razors, 57 Junk (mall report)

Knowing the locations and condition of every single shaving component in the antique stores of my little town, I moved on to the big city next door and hit 3 of their biggest antiques locations.

Lots of razors, few keepers, no bargains.

Sucks having to bother the clerk to open the locked case only to find a worthless blade hidden inside the scales. I don't mean rusty or nicked, I mean broken and honed to the bones.

Found about three interesting ones, one i'm still researching, another might I might re-scale as the blade size/shape condition was good despite broken scales. The other was a non-Gillette O/C DE.

Saw a double-coffin case. But it was paired with un-matched junk, a 5/8 honed down to about 3/8 and one of those replaceable blade trimmers-that looks sorta like an SR.

Saw a barber hone "optimistically priced" at 45 bucks.

And then there was this cute sales clerk quite fascinated by the fact that I actually use the SR's. May have to re-visit that shoppe.

So I came home and win the bid on a pile of stuff that includes 3 SR's. One of them appears to be 7/8...the others, who knows. The fat one caught my eye. I bought the lot. I just doubled my collection in the last 3 days. now have 5 shave-ready, and 3 in the mail.

Shave test for the Cincinnati Celluloid next-that was a strange one to hone.

Fixing a bevel on a pal's razor now.

Didn't get that bevel like i wanted it, but he's not "into" SR's yet. I did hang new scales on it and stropped it out. He inherited this IXL as well as a Robeson (which i already honed). The Robeson was in great shape. The IXL had odd hone-wear and pitting in the edge. I killed the edge, but not a full BK.

In a little over a year I've accumulated eight razors*, eight hones**, two strops***, and ...

I only have this ONE beard****!!! :gaah:

(and a suspiciously hairless left arm...I can see Joe Friday looking my arms up and down and saying, Uh huh, honing razors huh?, well that's a gateway drug yadda yadda blah... :rofl2:)

* all used and fairly clapped out (and i have a bid out there on another one).

** two used, the rest new and i'm including the DMT.

*** very very used, new one on "wish list" for Christmas.

**** and i'm just trimming around it! (3-4 weeks between full shaves)

Why did you give it back to him without a good bevel ? Friends will always get a razor so sharp you can cut your lips off with the first use :<0)
Just kidding of course , at least he has somebody to help him along if and when he is ready. And for God's sake shave your legs.

I yam a cyclist...

Oh I'll know if he ever tries to shave with 'em. And the Robeson is right.