Thread: The addiction is real

I to have the addiction. I made up my mind I wanted to try all the modern and many vintage razors. I have purchased and sold many and kept ones I feel I enjoy. I also watched, read and asked about honing. Nothing like honing a razor from the bevel to the finished edge and then shaving with the razor. My favorites are Mastro Livi, Ralf Aust, Puma, Bengal and Krupps. I personally like the vintage Sheffields for shave smoothness and performance. Another good razor at a very reasonable price is Genco and Ontarios. American made, holds a great edge and gives a wonderful shave.

I have it doubly bad, I like to collect pairs! I pity those fellows who collect 7-day sets!

Cheers, Steve

I just cant stay away from razors with big blades and really cool scales.....customs get me everytime...lol.

“Where can you go to find out the collectability of razors?”

Go to the Razor section of the forum, and go into the Razor Clubs, sub section. Each club is filled with quality photos of razors and tons of info.

You can spend days there, and learn more, than you ever wanted to know.

Better than any Book, I have seen. Print books are usually out of date, in terms of collectability and values.

Welcome to the forum

Current collectability depends on current values, so that book is too dated IMO. FBU razors were fairly pricey in their day beacause they had a lot of steel in them (which was more valuable 100 years ago than now) but not that long ago you could buy them for $15-20.

A good general rule to follow on the collectability of anything is the original position of the product on the cost scale. If a product was designed and produced for people who wanted the best and were willing to pay for it 100 years ago, it's likely to be more valuable and desirable now. A razor that was made for rich people 100 years ago is far more likely to be collectable now than barber's razors or consumer razors, fads notwithstanding.

Cheers, Steve

Oh it's real... less than a month in... just this morning received my newest... a Dovo Inox Olivewood... it's beautiful!
(tried to upload a couple pics... but apparently I haven't figured that out yet)

Ha. I just used my new Dovo gentleman w olive wood over the weekend.

Oh yes sir, this is real. As far as razors go, like Steve56 I was a two of everything as far as new razors went. 2 Dovo Prima Klang, 3 Dovo Bismarck, 2 Dovo Grenadille, 3 Hart steel 7/8. 3 MoDoSo, 3 Dorko. I also have a few dozen more of various makes and origins. I've just ordered a Brandonisio 'Uno' 7/8 barber's notch that looks sensational. They send it pro honed so if it's as good as it looks, I'll be buying it's brother soon too. Then we come to hones. All I will say is in the last 6 Months sanity has prevailed and I sold 4 coticules a king Goldstone 8k a 15k Suehiro Gokumyo. Gave my son a budding straight shaver a couple of hones and a Kanayama #50000! And a Geissen & Forsthoff 6/8 shave ready for him to use, and a GD to muck round with. Now we come to my Achilles heel strops..I am a massive fan of the Kanayama strops. I began with a #10000, bought anothet #70000 as I wanted the suede piece. Bought another #70000 as a back up. Sold the #10000, replaced it with a #50000 with additional suede piece (the one I gave to my son). So now down the track I have my original everyday strop the #70000, two spare #70000, and I had to have the top if the line #80000. So I have stopped for the time being with 3 x #70000's and an #80000. I think I have sort of gotten things manageable for the moment. But as I said, I'm waiting for the Uno 7/8 to arrive, that could lead to another........dribble dribble.....lol. (it's my only vice, don't drink, don't smoke, no other hobbies, so onwards!)

Bobski, thank you for doing that for me, now I don't have to do it if I choose not to...

But you forgot to get a Kanayama #90000 (to truly corner the market on those fine strops).