Thread: New York City/ Long island meetup

Originally Posted by Peter57

Let me know if this is lame or something in which there is any interest. If it's lame or too much like High School, forget I ever brought it up.

As an icebreaker for Sunday's meeting we can take a quick poll of attendees - just to get a feel for what the sampling of colleagues in attendance have in their shaving equipment stashes, length of time shaving with a STR8, or unique experience or expertise. Here are some questions to get things started. If anyone wants to add to the list, great.

•How long have you been shaving with a STR8?

•less than 3 months
•longer than 3 months but less than one year
•1-5 years
•more than 5 years

•How many STR8s do you own?

•one
•2-5
•6-10
•11-50
•51-100
•I lost count a while back

•Of these, what percentage of them you shave with regularly?

•less than 10%
•11-50%
•most or all of them

•How many shaving brushes do you own?

•one
•2-5
•6-10
•11-50
•51-100
•I lost count a while back

•How many strops do you own?

•one
•2-5
•6-10
•more than 10

•Do you hone your own razors?

•yes
•no
•what's honing?

•How many hones do you own?

•one
•2-5
•6-10
•more than 10

•Do you strop after shaving?

•yes
•no

•Do you oil your razors after shaving?

•yes
•no

Anyway, let me know what you guys think.

Rain, Rain, Beautiful Snow, how I love to play in the mud, today is Saturday, Aren't we all, If?

Originally Posted by JoeLowett

•How long have you been shaving with a STR8?
A year and a half


•How many STR8s do you own? -10
-Dovo 5/8 pearlex
-W&B India Steel, Set Ready For Use, 7/8 Wedge, rescaled in rosewood
-W&B 5/8 barbers notch w/ Etched Arrow Scroll (pre 1890 Model)
-W&B Silver Combined With India Steel 6/8 *rare* only seen one other. -Notates Faraday experiments in early 1820's
-W&B Fine India Steel 6/8 w/ thumb notch, with jimps, was reground to half hollow- Kind of like a muscle car w/ a farrari engine.
-W&B 'The Celebrated' Hollow Ground Razor, 9/8 all original not restored and shines like a diamond
-T.Turton and sons 5/8 w/ Barbers notch
-Joseph Allen and sons post 1890 4/8 w/ barbers notch
-Tillotsons Celebrated Razor- 9/8 chopper, near full wedge
-W&B Regrind in progress, home made- you be the judge on sunday.


•Of these, what percentage of them you shave with regularly?
Depends......

•How many shaving brushes do you own?
4
-cheap boar brush from cvs
-cheap van der hagen pure bager (actually a nice brush)
-Vintage Fuller Lucite I restored w/ 24mm Black Bager knot from TGN
-Vintage Fuller Tall Brush, Real Nice Restored w/ 24mm Superbager Knot from TGN

•How many strops do you own?
1- SRD Buffalo Hyde 3"

•Do you hone your own razors?
Work in progress.

•How many hones do you own?
Nada at the moment soon to change


•Do you strop after shaving?
NO. However i do strop BEFORE shaving


•Do you oil your razors after shaving?
Sometimes w/ Eucalyptus oil

Anyway, let me know what you guys think.

Hey i filled it out

I was actually thinking about a show of hands when we got there on Sunday, but WOW. I hope you bring some of your razors for us to admire.

ooo sorry. there all coming dont worry

Howdy all - is there any kind of agenda or schedule? Any planned demonstrations?

Definitely coming irrespective, but high interest in planned demo's on the honing and restoration frontiers.

Alot of my razor need to be honed, most all are resotores. I am willing to allow someone wioth expieriance to hone them for demenstration. Most need to go start to finish

Originally Posted by JoeLowett

Alot of my razor need to be honed, most all are resotores. I am willing to allow someone wioth expieriance to hone them for demenstration. Most need to go start to finish

Sounds like a sweet deal for the restorer ;-)

I am particularly looking forward to the seminar on "How to hide all your new shaving stuff from your wife"

Originally Posted by Peter57

I am particularly looking forward to the seminar on "How to hide all your new shaving stuff from your wife"

Oh yeah. I'll be leading that one. I've developed quite the expertise in under 3 months.

Originally Posted by DannyMcO

Howdy all - is there any kind of agenda or schedule? Any planned demonstrations?

Definitely coming irrespective, but high interest in planned demo's on the honing and restoration frontiers.

I plan on putting out a few razors in different stages of honing for people to look at. And I'd also like to demo the magic marker test for anyone who wants.

And if someone has a spare razor for me to hone then I'd be happy to do so.

Michael

My babies made it across the pond safely, so they will be my addition to the Show and Tell come Sunday