Thread: So how many do you have?

I just started straight shaving a few months ago but I can already tell that this is something that I'll be doing for a long, long time. But it's not just the act of straight shaving that I love, it's also the acquisition of new razors. I love the feeling of opening the mailbox and seeing that package that's just the right shape. Or scouring the shelves in an antique store, or the tables at a flea market and coming across that pristine, rectangular box that could be hiding "the big one". At the rate I'm going now I seem to be acquiring one razor per week and a half. Not bad, but if I continue at this rate I can only guess what our bathrom will look like six months from now (including brushes, soaps, etc) My girlfriend is convinced that I've lost my mind. Maybe I have. Maybe there is something wrong with me... but I don't care. I love what I'm doing. And my girlfriend is going to love it when I hang a new set of shelves in the bathroom to help contain the flood of incomimg goodness So, back to my question. How many do you have? How long have you been collecting? Are you largely responsible for putting Mama Bear's kids through college?

6 razors as of now .... only 1 of I am currently using. The others are going to be resto and honed.

Soaps can be never ending as there is always something new to try.

Mama-bears is great. I too have got a few of her soaps and love them.

What's really nice is as you go along in collecting you can update your own gallery here with pics of you new acquisitions

There was an old thread somewhere on the same subject but I have about 15 shavers 10 projects and about 5 dead razors. 3 brushes, 6 strops, 20 soaps and creams, and about 12 hones.

I have 5 razors (1 new and 4 vintage), 3 strops (1 new and 2 that I made myself), 5 soaps/creams... Unfortunately this isn't going to grow anymore for the time being because my cash flow grows smaller and smaller everyday... Oh well... at least I'll be sporting the clean-shaven-beggar look!

I have 2 useable razors right now. My goal is to 3 or 4 razors that I find gives me the best shave. I will probably buy one or 2 new ones. But will also want to get one or so that have the blade I want from another source (someting like ebay) clean and prep the blade, then send it out to put on a pair of nice scales. A Livi or other cusom razor is a bit out of my reach righrt now (child getting married next year). Not beyond reason in the future, just not in the near mid-term future.

Oh Boy!

About 85 + razors, shave ready in the bathroom. About 12 at the work desk to be sharpened. Five more coming from Ebay sellers, and one coming, soon, from Robert Williams.

I can't stop! Do I need help? _ Perhaps a family intervention?

I, also, have five strops, and at least a dozen brushes; currently I use three.

and, .....you don't want to know how many soaps and creams I have. It's really sick (a couple of new ones on the way).

* Is there a twelve step program I can get in to?

I need help!

Steve

Not enough

one to shave with, one i'm waiting to have done by one of the honemeisters and one im restoring as we speak, and ive been straight shaving for about a month and a half.
only one brush and one strop though.

I've got one.
Why?
Do you need more?
Mind you, when you have the best, the rest seem pointless.
Don't you agree?

Hey English whats the best then?
Me, I have about a dozen or so razors.
One day I'm going to thin out the ones that don't suit or exite me.
Then I'm going to buy another dozen and do it all again and again and again.......!!!!!!!!!
I have a couple that are excellent blades.

But, everyone should have
1 oblique point wedge ivory scaled razor
1 badger hair shaving brush
1 nice bowl (to mix up your expensive English shaving cream)
1 tub of expensive shaving cream
1 good strop
1 pasted "thing" or 12k chinese hone to refresh an edge
with these 6 items it is possible to turn shaving into a pleasure
M