Thread: Hi, My name is Derrick and I have a problem

I thought I had this AD thing beat. When I started straight razors a year or so ago I did the typical newbie thing and bought everything and anything i could get y hands on. i quickly grew a 20+ razor collection, a number of stones both natural and synthetic, 5 strops and on and on..

Our business had to close and to clear up some debt I sold everything off.. huge mistake but it was better than carrying the burden of the business with me. I had myself mentally convinced that a straight was just to much maintenance.

So a month ago I was really missing the straight razor so as things had gone back to normal I ordered a new 6/8 Friodur. Not a vintage one but one of the more recent regrind ones. The razor arrived less than shave ready so I was most disappointed and had not the stones to fix the problem with. So I ordered a new 6/8 Bismarck. I should have looked at my old posts, I always said one razor was okay but once you bought the second that started a chain reaction that can not be stopped.

So in the past 3-4 weeks I have bought

6/8 Friodur
6/8 Dovo Bismarck
6/8 Morley
6/8 NOS ERN
6/8 Pipe Razor
5/8 Puma
5/8 duble duck
3 vintage Brush Handles
3 GNB badger knots
Vie-Long Horse Hair brush
Alembic Case
6 soaps/creams
Chosera 2k
Naniwa SS 5k
Naniwa 8k snow white
Welsh WT stone

And then there are 2 transactions in paypal I can not recall what they were...

Oh I hope I get to mailbox before SWMBO over the next few weeks.

Originally Posted by dyimages

I thought I had this AD thing beat. When I started straight razors a year or so ago I did the typical newbie thing and bought everything and anything i could get y hands on. i quickly grew a 20+ razor collection, a number of stones both natural and synthetic, 5 strops and on and on..

Our business had to close and to clear up some debt I sold everything off.. huge mistake but it was better than carrying the burden of the business with me. I had myself mentally convinced that a straight was just to much maintenance.

So a month ago I was really missing the straight razor so as things had gone back to normal I ordered a new 6/8 Friodur. Not a vintage one but one of the more recent regrind ones. The razor arrived less than shave ready so I was most disappointed and had not the stones to fix the problem with. So I ordered a new 6/8 Bismarck. I should have looked at my old posts, I always said one razor was okay but once you bought the second that started a chain reaction that can not be stopped.

So in the past 3-4 weeks I have bought

6/8 Friodur
6/8 Dovo Bismarck
6/8 Morley
6/8 NOS ERN
6/8 Pipe Razor
5/8 Puma
5/8 duble duck
3 vintage Brush Handles
3 GNB badger knots
Vie-Long Horse Hair brush
Alembic Case
6 soaps/creams
Chosera 2k
Naniwa SS 5k
Naniwa 8k snow white
Welsh WT stone

And then there are 2 transactions in paypal I can not recall what they were...

Oh I hope I get to mailbox before SWMBO over the next few weeks.

Man your past month sounds like mine, i've been constantly tracking two or three new packages a day, soaps from france, razors from all over, stones that cost more than razors, a tiny anvil, I think the only thing I haven't gotten one of in the past month is another strop, but its only a matter of time...

Good thing I have no SWMBO, but my housemates sure think something is wrong with me, and the postman started asking questions about why I get so many packages from all over.

A fine new collection there mate.
Good on you for going all in once again after that bit of bad luck with the business.
They say the AD's will wear off a bit after a while, I'm sure they are right..

The part that scares me is before i was buying anything and everything. Now I know what i liked and am just collecting those. None of which are "Flea Bay" specials that require work. This is worse then before

Boy, are you on a tear! Fantastic and good luck appeasing the SWMBO. I suggest flowers unless she also shaves with straight razors.

LOL SWMBO came at me last night with "So what are these Ebay transactions??" I told her she had already known about the DD, it had just slipped my mind to tell her about the wellington....So I am on an Ebay/SRD/classic shaving/Leesrazor/etc. etc. Ban until my birthday because I just purchased 1k chosera, scuttle, srd premium II strop, two semogue brushes, and a walking horse EB all in the last month and a half. But to be fair, I donated 2 strops, 6/8 vintage razor and one new 5/8 dovo plus a stick of arko to her friend who wanted to get into wetshaving so its fair right???? .....Hi my name is Adam, I may have a problem

Dude,

You'd better camp by that mailbox....

Worst part is I broke my golden rule.

Only order razors with Black Scales and no gold Wash. that way they always look the same.

I have Red scales, NOS with Gold, White/Yellow Scales, Cracked ice...

package 1 arrived today

I Think I will add it to this that came in a week or so ago

Originally Posted by dyimages

Worst part is I broke my golden rule.

Only order razors with Black Scales and no gold Wash. that way they always look the same.

I have Red scales, NOS with Gold, White/Yellow Scales, Cracked ice...

Maybe you should start restoring them. [Or at least pretend to.] Then you can say, "Remember how this old black one used to look?"