Thread: Good Morning

Hi,
I've been straight shaving since mid 2012 and am an active member on BadgerAndBlade.
I currently restore and sell straights as well as Belgian coticules (which come from just down the road from my house!).

Hope to be made as welcome on here as B&B.

Cheers,

Paul

Welcome to SRP Paul!
I would be jealous of your location but i have enough coticules. so six months or so oh using a straight, how is it going for you?

oh and pictures please we like pictures of your gear and some folks get really excited over pictures of rocks so show us!

enjoy,
jim

Hi Jim,

It's going well. I haven't used since before the summer and I think I've only used a DE once since I started using a straight.
So pics you want, well pics you'll get.
here are my pride and joys - Six of a 7 day set of CV Heljestrand MK33's in Ivory

And here are some of my recent cotis :
I have another couple as well, a 200 * 50, a 150 * 40 vintage, a 130 * 25 - 30 vintage and a 130 * 20 vintage (think I got em all there). The ones in the pic are all natural combos.
I do have other stones but I'm a coti man until further notice (I have two Nakayama JNATs arriving from Japan in 2 weeks along with naguras including a couple of supposed komas).

Thanks,

Paul

Well, I have to say that's a new take on the words 'Rock Face'!


Welcome to the asylum Paul.


Mick

Wow, Paul, those are some gorgeous razors! Hope to see you posting in the SOTD.

Welcome aboard!

very nice razors there... from the picture it looks like they could use a little polishing or a long visit to my house hand polish is where i would start, but a skilled restorer could safely unpin the ivory scales completely restore the blade and reattach the scales ... think about how pretty they would be them.
you just have to love the natural combination stones.

jim

Originally Posted by syslight

very nice razors there... from the picture it looks like they could use a little polishing or a long visit to my house hand polish is where i would start, but a skilled restorer could safely unpin the ivory scales completely restore the blade and reattach the scales ... think about how pretty they would be them.
you just have to love the natural combination stones.

jim

Yeah I think 5 could do with a good polish, I don't have the time to do them at the moment. I've considered sending them to get restored but I'm worried about posting ivory out of the country - I was already lucky enough to get them through customs when I bought them. One of them has seen better days, it's my regular shaver as I don't want to use the others too much - I think it was "honed" on a knife grinding wheel in Uruguay (that's where they came from).
I'm a sucker for natural combos, I never actually use the BBW side, it's simply the look of them - all the ones in the pic, including the slurry stones, are natural combos - mostly La Grise but I think the two smaller bouts are LPBs.

Originally Posted by JoeSomebody

Wow, Paul, those are some gorgeous razors! Hope to see you posting in the SOTD.

Welcome aboard!

Thanks for the welcome. I don't tend to post SOTD pics, I never have the time. Maybe I'll make an effort though just to show off

Yes ivory can be an expensive loss in customs... all you get here is a note that they were seized and destroyed and a lecture about trading in ivory, even though it is pre-ban.... no blades nothing else in the package either really sucks.

perhaps you will one day find a EU restorer to do it... i thought things between member states were not subject to customs inspections... most likely i am wrong though.

they are pretty though and the BBW is great to hone on. i used coti's, along with barber's hones, for years before i ever tried a norton or shapton. when i've use a scythe there is nothing as nice as a bbw to keep the edge going. coticules are not just for razors

enjoy,
jim

welcome paul!
thats a nice set there, and the cotis too.
i cant help thinking how they look like a happy gentleman's face
hal.

Originally Posted by BakerandBadger

Paul