Damn you all to heck

I swore off, I swear I did, I swore off buying anymore freaking razors no matter what:banghead: All your talk about this razor or that razor or the prices of the big name big blade razors and I start trolling that evil site again and this is what happens Antique Wade Butcher Big 1 1 16 Barbers Use Straight Razor Shaving Knife Razors | eBay Another freaking razor to clean, hone, strop and use, my wife is going to freaking kill me. I am naming y'all at the divorce proceedings for culpable collusion.

Was looking at that one...nice! Congrats!

Your not making this easy Phrank. If this keeps up, someone will be able to pick up my collection dirt cheap at my estate auction in a few weeks, after I am gone.

Just say you're acting as a proxy for a friend whose wife said she'd kill him if he bought another razor. Buddie that you are, you're just holding it until the dust settles. Come up with another story in a few months if your wife notices you still have the razor. You aren't lying, per se, a man should be his own best friend when you must feed the RAD.

No can do, I've used that just a few to many times. You'd have to know my wife, she can smell BS in space. I just have to hope that she doesn't get the mail for the next few weeks, other stuff coming as well.

Link not working...matters not! No worries, stik! Tell her you got a badass razor and stik (pun intended!) it in her face. Tell her 'mo razzers, mo better!'
That's how I roll! :roflmao

My wife told me if I got another handgun she'd leave me .......... and I miss her sometimes ...... :rolleyes:

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My wife told me if I got another handgun she'd leave me .......... and I miss her sometimes ...... :rolleyes:

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You ought to check the sights on your hand guns, are you pulling to the left or right? Get them spot on and you won't miss her again.:roflmao

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Never lie to your wife.

If I don't tell her, is that lying?

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If I don't tell her, is that lying?

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No,I have my own paypal acct,my own checking acct,at the end of the month when all the bills are paid,I do not have to tell my wife squat
Has worked for 35 yrs,just do not hide stuff from your mate,JMO

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No,I have my own paypal acct,my own checking acct,at the end of the month when all the bills are paid,I do not have to tell my wife squat
Has worked for 35 yrs,just do not hide stuff from your mate,JMO

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Everything is out in the open. With as much stuff that I collect, a new one just gets overlooked.

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I just have to hope that she doesn't get the mail for the next few weeks, other stuff coming as well.

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That's why there are P.O. boxes, good enough for your Playboy subscription, good enough for RAD. :). Another tip, only buy razors with black scales so she can't tell them apart.

Tell you what I'll pay for you to ship it to me and I'll hang onto it for a few months and then I'll send it back as a "PIF" I can be both the lame friend dodging the wife and the generous forum member who decided this razor was better suited in your hands.

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Never lie to your wife.

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Never get caught lying to your wife,,,,,,:beer2:

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Tell you what I'll pay for you to ship it to me and I'll hang onto it for a few months and then I'll send it back as a "PIF" I can be both the lame friend dodging the wife and the generous forum member who decided this razor was better suited in your hands.

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Hmmmmm. I'll have to think on that one for a few. Let me get back to you on the offer.

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Never get caught lying to your wife,,,,,,:beer2:

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THAT is the trick right there.:chop:

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Was looking at that one...nice! Congrats!

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It just struck me... Phrank, you watched it but didn't bid? I am flabbergasted. Either there is something seriously wrong with this razor and I didn't catch it, or. I beat Phrank on a BBW&B.

You have to remember, with Phrank he knows when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.

Only 255? For a big W&B that is cheap :tu, congrats by the way on the score.
When you get in the 500 range then it gets scary.

When ever I take on an apprentice to help them learn this age old art the first thing that I tell them is that Family Comes First! If the family needs something, razors, hones, strops, soaps etc can wait!

I dropped one apprentice because he didn't listen! I'd financed a razor for him on the condition that he could pay me back when he could and how much he could. I then found that he was buying other shaving gear and not paying me back!

What broke the camels back was when he wrote asking if I knew anything about how to go about using a Debt Reduction Offer.

If you have sufficient funds for the family fine! If not, step back and think about what's really important to you in life. Your family or another razor/strop etc.

Oh!! And NEVER EVER LIE TO THE WIFE or GIRLFRIEND. If you can't have trust between each other then you don't have anything!

I'll get off of my :soapbox:

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What's that? - Never lie with your wife! What's the matter with you, Bill..............:beer2:

That is a good price for a big beastie....
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Was bidding also but got to high for a 1" (by the time you hone the chip out) for me
Should turn out to be a great razor though

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Was bidding also but got to high for a 1" (by the time you hone the chip out) for me
Should turn out to be a great razor though

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I took that chip into consideration but I was also thinking about the fact that it's an FBO and not just a run of the mill FBU. More exclusivity.

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When ever I take on an apprentice to help them learn this age old art the first thing that I tell them is that Family Comes First! If the family needs something, razors, hones, strops, soaps etc can wait!
If you have sufficient funds for the family fine! If not, step back and think about what's really important to you in life. Your family or another razor/strop etc.

Oh!! And NEVER EVER LIE TO THE WIFE or GIRLFRIEND. If you can't have trust between each other then you don't have anything!

I'll get off of my :soapbox:

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Correct, the needs of the family come first. I have the ability to pay for everything that I purchase but I am a cheap bastard and I would have preferred to pay much less for it than what I did. I can't lie to my wife, never could, it's just not in me. If I did lie to her, I would feel so guilty. Don't get me wrong, I can lie with the best but just not to her. My girlfriend on the other hand....

good score and im with Bill , never lie to your wife ,, but then again telling the truth cost me 3 wives, maybe should have sugar coated a little huh? tc

I had hoped that it would have gone for a lot more than it did. As it ended up, it came in $2.37 shy of my max bid. I figured that it would go for some crazy amount instead of settling in at the final price. My wife and I determined a long time ago that whoever left had to take the children so that has been the big deterrent for divorce.

Nice razor stik. I gave up on RAD ages ago. I was always a minimalist though, never ever was going to ever need more than two razors and I still ended up with something just a tad under a fortnight's set. :)


Mick

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It just struck me... Phrank, you watched it but didn't bid? I am flabbergasted. Either there is something seriously wrong with this razor and I didn't catch it, or. I beat Phrank on a BBW&B.

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LOL - when I bid, I may place a bid at the beginning, just to probe, but after that, I usually bid once and only once, because the only bid the counts, is the winning one. In the case of your W&B razor, I was prepared to go, then found a 9/8 W&B FBU with 3 minutes left, on eBay from basically an hour away from me, for $210.00 plus $3.50 for shipping, so that took me out of the game.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/membe...arbers-use.jpg

Then, just to switch things up, managed to grab this nice little 11/16 Joseph Elliot, hoping the scales are tortoise?

http://straightrazorpalace.com/membe...liot-11-16.jpg

Gentlemen,
The dearly beloved shuffles into the shave den, stops at the counter and says, "They're growing like rabbits," while other times she wonders what happened to some of the razor that were there last month. Might as well tell her everything.

My lovely bride just rolls her eyes and says, "ANOTHER one?"

Then I ask her "Isn't it pretty?" to which she replies. "Only if you think so, they ALL looks scary to me."

I bought one last week, working on buying two more at the moment.

Going through the pile slowly and deciding which I'm going to sell. (SO I CAN BUY MORE!)

That ebay seller is good people. I've bought several pocket knives for Doyle over the years. No idea where he finds all that sharp stuff he sells, but he generally has quite a varied selection of interesting and uninteresting edged stuff for sale.

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LOL - when I bid, I may place a bid at the beginning, just to probe, but after that, I usually bid once and only once, because the only bid the counts, is the winning one. In the case of your W&B razor, I was prepared to go, then found a 9/8 W&B FBU with 3 minutes left, on eBay from basically an hour away from me, for $210.00 plus $3.50 for shipping, so that took me out of the game.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/membe...arbers-use.jpg

Then, just to switch things up, managed to grab this nice little 11/16 Joseph Elliot, hoping the scales are tortoise?

http://straightrazorpalace.com/membe...liot-11-16.jpg

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You are my hero, to find a restored 9/8 FBU for less than my unrestored FBO makes me want to hurl.