Thread: Greetings from Florida

Welcome! Where in Florida are you? My wife and I try to visit the panhandle a couple times a year...

Thanks all for the warm welcome. I'll post some more pictures of razors and stuff soon but here is my latest find. $25 in an antique store. It's a Jung's Jewel my guess is 1920s-30s )happy to hear more educated input). I found a matching box on eBay. It's always nice to have box that matches. Man I hope this is the right picture

Scott. I'm in Gainesville which is center of the state east to west about an hour and a half south of the Georgia border. University of Florida is here.

Welcome! Nice blade.

Welcome to SRP!!!!!

Looks like you're off to a great start

We are a great community with a lot to share, and help you along your journey.
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Enjoy and have fun!!!!!

Welcome aboard, mate.

We are true enablers. Just a few short years ago, I had only three razors that I used for nearly 30 yrs. A Torrey, and two RSO's. I tried to restore my Torrey, but ruined it.

So I did some searching, and was directed here. With all the pics and information on restoring, in the workshop, I became highly infected with RAD, and other disorders related to it.



And yes, others have more extensive disorders, than I.

Welcome aboard. I started with razors by finding two at a yard sale. Unfortunately for me, that wasnt the end of it. I enjoy seeing the extent of others collections, because it makes me feel like I am not that badly afflicted. I only have about 30-40 and only 5 of those are shave ready blades.
That pic that Outback posted actually made me laugh out loud. What must our wives think?

Originally Posted by MrZ

That pic that Outback posted actually made me laugh out loud. What must our wives think?

I know what my wife thinks and I only have about 30.

Whenever I try to justify a blade I’ve fixed up by telling her what I paid for it and what a similar one sold for on eBay, she tells me to sell it. I am never going to win that debate

Mine doesn't care anymore. Ive got so many yet to do, she doesn't notice when I bring in another. The ones coming by mail, I tell her its another restore for one of the guys in the forum, here.

Hello Paul, welcome to the SRP, the Henckels 401 is a very nice razor full hollow grind some of them have really nice scales.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

Hello Paul, welcome to the SRP, the Henckels 401 is a very nice razor full hollow grind some of them have really nice scales.

speaking of really nice scales I'll show you where my restoration started other than just buffing out blades:

my brother also has been infected by the bug. He's a knife collector and has several thousand of them. anyway before he bought his first one he was saying he wanted a nice one and asked my opinion I told him that the j a henckels 401 like our father had is hard to go wrong with. I wound up bidding on one on eBay for him and almost simultaneously he bought an NOS Friodur. I wound up winning that bid and when I got it the scales were really collapsed.[
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This was before I learned how to flatten them back out with a hair iron. At any rate there is a dad Southern Live Oak in the woods behind my house. It has probably been dead for 150 years (by the way there's a name for standing dead wood. It's called "snag" which is;an ecological term) the wood is a beautiful brown color and so hard a cat can't scratch it. because the branches are all twisted and it's so hard it seems impossible to do anything with. I burned some of it in my barbecue grill/ smoker. Then it dawned on me that I have now found a use for this wood.Attachment 299449Attachment 299450Attachment 299451

I didn't use any stain just sanded it smooth and put 3 coats of clear polyurethane.Attachment 299453

...and so my adventures in restoration began.

Paul