Thread: Showing Your Collection to the Uninitiated!

Gentlemen: A long time ago I learned not to let anyone touch my LPs (that's in the days of the long playing record) and my beloved fountain pens: anyone who has not the least notion that you don't run your greasy fingers over the LPs grooves, and that you don't uncap the fountain pen that belongs to someone else and write with it as if it's yours. Some things are sacred.

Anyone is welcome into the shave den to view my modest collection of razors, straight and double edge, in their respective open racks. No one is allowed to touch, however, unless he or she knows the difference between a light saber and a butter knife.

Aaaaahhhh the LP. I loved the old rituals of playing , carefully selecting an album and mounting it on a turntable. Cleaning it and playing it. Those were the days. I found out early on how clueless people are with straights, so at this point not many people have seen my collection. But hopefully soon I will be able to build a display case,

My razor rotation is in my bathroom. High enough to be out of reach for small hands.
My friends know that the rule is the same as for my guns; you might look, but you don't touch.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with quickly telling non-straight razor people (1) they're sharper than imagined, and (2) dropping them would be a tremendous mistake. Most people who casually handle knifes are used to thumbing the edge for sharpness, and can simply never be prepared for how sharp these really are. Why hesitate to say so from the moment the topic comes up??