Hey my name is talloak. I am mostly interested in restoring vintage razors as a hobby, mostly because I want to build custom wooden scales. Not sure how interested I am in doing the honing part of it myself - we'll see. I need a hobby and I live in an apartment, so space is limited. I am interested in woodworking and have played around with woodworking before a little bit with a highly skilled friend. But don't have the space or money for my own woodworking tools, so I like the idea of making scales because they are so small. I figure I can work mostly with hand tools, kind of like whittling. This may not be accurate - I've got some reading to do.

My previous hobby was homebrewing. It was really fun and I was involved quite a bit with a forum online, and with a local homebrew club. But I started moving around the country too often to drag along 300-400 cubic feet of homebrewing equipment. So I need a new hobby where I am crafting something by hand - need the outlet. My profession is as a scientist/researcher in the field of forestry.