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    Doing our share of the work here in France.

    I must be above 40, but the amount is here again is thousands
    We even have a few professionals who can do an absolute stunning job when marvels get out of their slumber.

    Sadly though, we can't save all. Many people deem them too dangerous and put them in the trash, and we have our fair share of people who traditionally eat hedgehogs and use straigths to shave them. It is well known here that you have to get up early before they take them all...

    That's not counting those destroy by cell rot, broken blades, and razors used for other purposes (scratching paint for example)
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    Getting a rusty cracked blade shaving gives me the most satisfaction.
    Knowing that it will not corrode into oblivion... priceless.

    Thanks for all the help and how-to information.
    Going out to find more razors.
    Cheers.
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    I'm happy to re-home and save any Boker that anyone feels the need to be rid of!!
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    Every razor I have saved I have also baptized in lather in the name of the boker, the kropp, and the honeless ghost, amen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aggelos View Post
    and we have our fair share of people who traditionally eat hedgehogs and use straigths to shave them. It is well known here that you have to get up early before they take them all...
    Surely you jest?
    The hedgehogs get a hot lather shave before dinner? Dang you folk are fancy.
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    Restorations are one part of it. Taking good care of razors that would have otherwise been neglected is another. But I think the more impressive feat is the work to preserve knowledge and learn new things in order to preserve and enhance straight razor shaving in general. I find the overall impact of this niche hobby quite impressive.

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    Surely you jest?
    The hedgehogs get a hot lather shave before dinner? Dang you folk are fancy.
    I'd wish I was.
    But no, in reality it's nothing fancy, said people are part of nomadic populations, romani mainly. They are used to live poorly, and the tradition of eating edgehog started when food was scarce during WWII, and stayed as an important cultural element.
    As the european edgehog is a protected species, this has lead to many arrests and sentences, and contributes to the ill fame of the overall population (they are currently so hated that there start to be segregation in the transports), while swimming pool owners and night drivers are the main cause of death.

    Sigh. Feel the need to lighten the mood after that.

    Alright : three razors which are the closest thing I have to family razors were used by my fiancee's grandfather to castrate pigs. THEY WILL BE SAVED AND RESTORE THEIR HONOR AT PROTECTING MALE ATTRIBUTES (well, in that case, their beard...)
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    Well, good news is, such people hunt for "penny razors".
    That does not protect from a very good blade to be sold (eg Nogent or a large W&B), but at least MOP, tortoise, ivory, sculpted scales, etc. are quite a protected hunt

    Marvels are still to be found as they were over the last year at least in France, in high end shops
    The common things may go and die, the marvels are still to come !

    I have been a treasure hunter for years now, when treasures need to appear, they will
    Sometimes it makes me wonder if there is such thing as fate...
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