Thread: A Straight Shavers Hell

I spent the better part of a day today totally redoing the bevel on my TI Silverwing LE and as the hours passed my mind got to thinking.

So there you are shaving one morning and the big man pulls your number in a lottery you don't want to win and there you are standing at the big gates and the man has this big list in his hand and he doesn't like the answers you give him especially about all those badgers that died for your brush collection and the next thing you know your chained to this huge table a foot off the ground sitting in a chair four feet off the ground and your told your task is to hone and rebevel a razor and when your finished you can go to your reward but the problem is the table contains one million TI Damascus Straights and none shave worth a damn and all you have is a Blue Belgian Hone and after months of honing as you get the first one perfect this overgrown Badger runs over and bites your hand off and the razor falls to the ground causing innumerable microchips so you have to start all over again and of course your hand grows back.

Now ain't that hell?

By the way the Silverwing shaves great now.

yeah but did you hone it with a blue belgian only?

Wouldn't a SS razor be worse?

I think the nightmare of someone robbing my apartment and taking all my hones, just leaving me with a BBW is bad enough.
Your's is definetely better. I'll be content now.

Originally Posted by loueedacat

yeah but did you hone it with a blue belgian only?

Har, Har.

Actually I used the Norton 1K,4K,8K and Coticule.

Sure sounds like hell to me! I don't know that I would have the patients survive that. I would have to find a better way to attack it even if it took me a month of Sundays to discover it.

It sounds like you may be suffering from "honing fever". Put the stone & the blade down gently & take a step back!

Would only be worse if the razor was a Zeepk.

What big man????

I was in a straight razor shaver hell a year ago when I was in a hospital overnight (that's a different topic for a different time) and when I went to shower and shave in the morning a nurse handed me a disposable. I understand why they hand out disposables but that was hell for me I stood there staring at the thing and said "You have got to be kidding me." There was no way that thingy was touching my face, I made a quick call home and in an hour the mrs brought in my inox, my brush and my current tube of cream. You should have seen the look on the face of a nurse when she sees me half way through with the inox in one hand as I was going over my neck area. She turned pale white, I shut the door where I had placed a sign on the outside reading "Do Not Disturb, this might result in a death."

That was razor hell for me.