Thread: Wish List - favorite razor

Originally Posted by toonboog

I am not that familiar with all the vintage razors yet, but I'd really love to have a complete 7-day set once.
I know Thiers Issard used to make them, and they still will if you're willing to pay for them I guess. And there will be others as well of course.

Just the sight of a nice wooden box with matching razors is a lovely thing.

Build your own! Fun project that would take quite a bit of time though.

Originally Posted by daverojo77

Build your own! Fun project that would take quite a bit of time though.

If only time was the only obstacle

Never found a nice vintage in any of the antique stores I frequent to date so I mainly am starting what will one day in the future be collectible vintage to my kids! I love all that I have and yes, some better than others. The most consistent brand is still the Ralf Aust lineup. I have Boker; Dovo; Revisor; PRC; and Jerry Stark razors.

I would love to add some more one day and mainly a Thiers if they ever get back in stock here at SRD!

I realized a while back I was accumulating razors for the sake of accumulating them. I'd receive a new one in the mail, shave with it once or twice, and put it away to begin looking for the next. As a result, I had 50-75 very nice straights that I had in a "rotation" (to be used once every...hmmm...well, never really) and another 50 or so which I never had any intention of keeping, but wanted to experience THAT razor at least once before I went to the Happy Hunting Ground.

The next realization I made after realization #1 was that I appreciated very darn few of the straights I had. Every time I picked out a straight from my rotation for the shave of the day, it felt kind of like a stranger. I realized I wanted to develop a "relationship" (knock it off...) with my straights as daily shavers, and really come to know and appreciate them. I made a decision to get my collection down to only the very best special, historically significant, or regionally representative straights. I set a maximum rotation for myself of 14. If I were to have 14 currently in rotation and see a new one I had to have, something in my collection would have to go.

I'm currently down to eight, and have two inbound. Now, I'm looking for THE awesome, perfect Sheff (any minty George Brittain GB Anchors or NOS Mappin & Webb Lancets for sale drop me a line) to complete my collection, so it looks like I'll settle in at 11 straight razors, done and done.

I'm realizing this was a wise decision for me, and already reaping benefits. I have great "rapport" with my small collection, love each one as much as the next, and look forward to shaving with today's choice as much as tomorrows.

I think what I'm saying here, is don't go down a rabbit hole chasing every unicorn.

Love the unicorn you're with.

<cue hippy music>

I have to have a Charlie Lewis at some point. To me, his work is the very best of the new makers..... at least to my eyes anyways.

Koraat 7/8 near wedge rounded square point with barbers notch. Very little ornamentation and ebony scales.

My wish list one is the one I don't yet know exists. I'm also always after historically important razors, or in general ones with traceable histories.

A shoe box packed with 100 dollar bills....
Then I could buy all the razors I need to find that special one I really want.[emoji23]
Till then... Im excited with all that I have, and the ones yet to be had.[emoji5]
Like my younger years and woeman... All woeman are good, just some are better than others.

Finding the best one is the hardest.
Took 30 some years but I did find her.[emoji6]

visited the barber across the street from my house this morning just to shoot the breeze with the barber and we started talking straight razors. Of course he has a pretty good collection but he only took one out to show me and it was a Wade and Butcher is pretty good condition. I asked if he wanted to part with it and he asked me what I was willing to pay. I figure he's a guy from the neighborhood so I was honest and offered a hundred bucks. I figured with another hundred or so I can send it to Glenn and get back something I could be proud to own. Hundred wasn't good enough so we left it at that. Guy had Dubl Ducks and a bunch of Coticule hones he called soap stone. I asked him why he called them that and he told me they used to hone razors on these and with soap lather.
Anyway there's one Razor on my wish list I couldn't get today. Oh well, like I said I'm a pretty patient collector.

A mint Heljestrand MK 33, 7/8, in ivory scales, soon to be in the, "What have you got in the Mail" thread....