Thread: Bill's SRP razor

Originally Posted by JMS

For all you opportunists.
for all that wouldn't think twice about stealing the pennies off a dead mans eyes.
Bill Ellis is selling his SRP straight razor on his website!



With all due respect,
Mark Avery

I must clarify myself here.
From reading many of bills posts I recognize a slightly ill tempered man with more than his share of grit. A man who isn't afraid to speak his mind and isn't afraid of his own shadow. A man who you could disagree with all day long but at the end of the day you knew you could depend on him because he is what he is. In short he is a man!
I've also read many of the posts from the other two " men " who suceeded in chasing him off and they rub me the wrong way. Know it alls. Pleasant enough on the surface, but I get the uneasy feeling that if I didn't keep my eye on them that they just might slit me from stem to stern.
It saddens me deeply that men like Bill are rapidly being replaced in this world by "men" such as I have described.

With my deepest sympathies,
Mark Avery

Originally Posted by JMS

It saddens me deeply that men like Bill are rapidly being replaced in this world by "men" such as I have described.

+1

IMO his leaving is/was a big loss to this place.

Since you decided to start digging for old skeletons, I feel the need to clarify a few things..
1) Bill wasn't chased off the forum. Nobody was threatening him in any way, shape or form. He decided to leave.
2) Your uneasy feelings about people you have never met are coming very close to being personal attacks.
3) Just because a person elects to speak in a civilized manner, using rational arguments, without going psycho, doesn't mean that the person is taking his figurative knife to the Norton and waiting for an opportunity to slit Mark Avery from stem to stern.
4) Everything I do or say here is to serve the community.
In any case, this issue is supposed to be closed. If you're still inclined to open up old cans of worms, I'd be glad to accomodate you via Private Messages, not out of any desire to justify myself to a person like yourself, but not to distract from the real reason we're all here -- straight razors and shaving -- with pointless arguing.

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

Since you decided to start digging for old skeletons, I feel the need to clarify a few things..
1) Bill wasn't chased off the forum. Nobody was threatening him in any way, shape or form. He decided to leave.

I guess I should have put quotation marks around chased also.
My mistake.

Could this topic please be left alone? I think the original discussion was harmful enough as iti.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Could this topic please be left alone? I think the original discussion was harmful enough as iti.

I agree. I wasn't here for the actual exchange, thank goodness, but I feel like it should be buried as well, and I am sorry that I asked in the first place. It's just not worth it. Nothing good can come of it. Moving on!

So, the SRP Razors were made especially for SRP by TI through classicshaving.com, right? What I want to know is are the numbers limited? I see that they are still available at Classicshaving.com, but are they still being produced by TI? Do I need to plan on getting one of these before they run out?

Matt

I am sorry to disagree. People need to express their feelings, thats why we have public forums. Look we are all big boys here - we shave right- .?Personnally I am sorry to see anyone leave the group, however no one held a gun to anyones head to either stay or to go. I like Bill but it is his choice if he didn't want to stay and while I admire his skill I also saw he could get pissed off pretty easily. I can say that there where times I agreed with him and sometimes I disagreed but I always found him entertaining and informative.
That being said let the posting begin...

Originally Posted by RichZ

I am sorry to disagree. People need to express their feelings, thats why we have public forums. Look we are all big boys here - we shave right- .?Personnally I am sorry to see anyone leave the group, however no one held a gun to anyones head to either stay or to go. I like Bill but it is his choice if he didn't want to stay and while I admire his skill I also saw he could get pissed off pretty easily. I can say that there where times I agreed with him and sometimes I disagreed but I always found him entertaining and informative.
That being said let the posting begin...

Sounds like we might be good friends!!