Thread: Gifts

With the gift giving (receiving) season now kicking into it's full swing, I started thinking about what I wanted the wife (Santa) to get me. I can't narrow it down so I figured I'd ask what you guys and gals would want. Sort of like a little cheating, I would see what you wanted and maybe copy you to formulate my list. So let's hear what's on you list. Anything goes in any price range. I know I'm going to hear some great ideas that would make my list.

A Buddel and a Livi

Weleda aftershave balm and Cella shaving cream are on my wish list.

I want one of Silverloafs western ground Kamis

Anything?

R. Saito SK1, SK2 and SK3.

A handfull of Nos Heljestrand MK32s and MK33s.

Ali's blade, I really like the look of those French point Raptors.

A Suehiro Gokumyo 20k(he-he, I've been wanting to get one for so long that I spelled it right on the first try.).

A Chosera 1k(Old one or the updated version, doesn't matter) just to see how it compares to the Naniwa SS 1k.

A Naniwa SS 5k(Old one or the updated version, doesn't matter) to bridge the gap between 3k and 8k in my current progression.

A new laptop, the old one is staring to get old, sometimes it makes weird noises and the screen flickers.

And just for the heck of it an F4U Corsair, I don't have a pilot's license and I don't think I could afford the upkeep but I've always really liked the look of that plane.

On the "less than a Benjamin" list I have taken to using Obie's soap/cream list as a baseline response for: "what can I get you for Christmas"

Obie Soap List top Seven

Martin de Candre soap (Got it)
Castle Forbes cream
Ultimate Comfort by Truefitt & Hill cream (Got it)
Santa Maria Novella cream
Esbjerg sensitive cream
Taylor of Old Bond Street cream
BAUM.BE cream

And I already bought the Truefitt & Hill Trafalgar and turned it over, unopened, to SWMBO for delivery on Christmas.

I asked for a Portland Razor Co straight (I ordered it so it wasn't screwed up, so I know I got it....haha). I went with American made just so I could have a good feeling about it.

HTGAM "beach" sent soap and after shave.
Truefitt and hill 1805

In my blended marriage, when I was married that is to say, we had a blended holiday. Namely Xmaskah. If you've never seen a tinsel draped dreidel you've never lived. Christmas eve tradition was Matzo ball chicken soup. Christmas day was something porky.

What would I like for the Holiday's? Other than the damned stupid fanatics to stop and realize what they are missing out on (suburbia here we come), a custom razor, maker to be chosen, a Neil Miller strop (and continued good health for him) and free of razor addiction debt.

When you're thebigspendur and the richest guy in the world you just wish folks would stop calling you and asking for money. Why just the other day I told Bill Gates I wasn't going to give him another loan.

In order of preference

Still on my list is an Ebony/Black horn & Ivory with 24mm silver tip (or what ever the best TGN knot is) from Pix, but customs apparently wont let him send them or me receive the Ivory bit,

a nice quality 2.5-3" Horween vegetable tanned horsehide Strop with natural linen, either a Miller, Scrupleworks, Hides to art or other good heirloom quality built item with tabbed barbers ends & my initials custom stamped in it gold leaf,

a Suehiro Gokumyo 20k - love the reports I read for these, then no more pastes etc,

a Chosera 1k, to try shave an hour of bevel setting them god damn smiling wedges with my Nani 1K SS,

a set of 4" Buffing wheels with some greaseless to play with,

A cam upgrade for my Clubby to take her from the current 390 bhp to up closer to 500 BHP on the rear wheels,

a couple of meters of 1"x1/4" O1, W2 or other blade quality steel
& 71*2 belt sander
a forge of heat treating oven to make the steel right
damn the list goes on
LOL