Razors and Brush Stand

I guess this is the place to put this. Feel free to move it if it isn't.

I started wet shaving with a GEM 1912 and an Omega brush. Of course I needed a stand, so I just bent one up from a coat hanger, using an instructable I found on the Internet. My poor, patient, loving wife, who is fastidious enough that she would have normally thrown a fit until I removed it from the counter, bore with me for months with that stupid thing. Then, after a month of living in our new house, I got tired of looking at it and made a new one. It really was a spur of the moment holder, slapped together from 1/4" red oak scrap and held together with super glue. By this time I had switched to straights. I took it to her and said, "if I make something like this, but nicer looking, how do you feel about it being on the counter?" Of course, being the awesome woman she is, she said sure. And lived with a only slightly less offensive piece of functional abstract art for the last four months.

No longer. I finally got time to whip this up over the last week or so. It's from oak, stain is mixed 3:2 minwax red oak and ebony, finished with five coats of high gloss poly. I still have to shine the brass rods and glue them into place, and use a cutting compound on the finish, wand cut brass circle inserts for the wedge ends of the razors, but I'm about 95% finished. Got the big stuff done. Going to start using it tonight!

She says, after I spent all the time mixing an antique-y color, "but it doesn't match the cabinets.....". Dang woman. :) Now I have to spend more time in the shed making another one!! :D

That is very nice indeed.

Just used it for the first time! Worked great, except I wish I'd have made the brush stand face forward, and made a couple of single edge/double edge razor holes on the right side. Maybe version 2.0 will have [from left to right] a brush holder, 4 straight slots, three or four DE/SE holes, 4 straight slots, and a second brush holder. And of course, stained to match the cabinets........lol

Nice idea, thanks for sharing.

Medicevans, my good man, that is a smart idea. The brush and razor stand you've created is not only practical, but it also throws a smiling wink at the viewer. Well done.

How so Obie?

My dear medicevans, because a smiling wink is hard to resist. If your brush and razor stand were displayed in a shop window and I walking by, it would beckon me to stop, take a closer look, and then shuffle into the shop for another look — and I'd reach for my wallet. That whole scenario is what a smiling wink is.

Ah, I see. I think that's how I ended up married.....with 5 kids........*shakes head*

Indeed, my dear friend, watch out for those smiling winks.