Thread: A deeply personal question.

Originally Posted by Midway

Oh my goodness! I believe this puts you in the category of curator.

Just a contented hobbyist/restorer/user and as a user I usually reach for difficult save razors instead of customs or NOS (there may be a message in there somewhere )

Originally Posted by Speedster

Agreed...3 Koraats does seem excessive. Wanna trade?

I set myself up for that one. Ha.

I built my shave den to only display 19 razors. I stopped at 20 razors. 12 razors are in my rotation. I plan on selling razors I don't use to be replaced with new/old razors I might use. har...

Originally Posted by MichaelS

Hi, I'm Michael and I'm an...............owner of 36................razor boxes!

Each box has a log with honing progression for the razors inside. I haven't counted the total.

All shave ready, I use them all but the rotation is obviously big......

I have another dozen or so razors currently in the workshop in various stages of restoration.




Here's what the box labels currently say (determined mainly by the size of the boxes and of my shelves):

Heljestrand NOS
Heljestrand hollow
Heljestrand half hollow
Heljestrand wedge
SSA
Swedish Bengall (Borlänge maskinaffair)
Berg
Swedish misc NOS
Swedish misc other

Henckels hollow
Henckels wedge
Henckels Friodur
Giesen & Forsthoff/Timor
Schulze
Dovo
Wacker
Puma
Solingen other NOS
Solingen other hollow
Solingen other wedge

Le Grelot
Le Grelot 7-day
Thiers Issard
France others NOS
France others hollow
France old wedges

Wostenholme 7-day
Gardiner 7-day
Sheffield NOS
Sheffield Tier 1
Sheffield other hollow
Sheffield other wedge

Japan

Belgium (mainly other countries for Belgian cutlery retailers)

Customs

Other countries (Spain, USA, Hungary, Poland - a future development area for me!)

I think perhaps we would all like a new thread just showing the contents of those boxes! If you don't want to be bothered to do so, please sign this contract and send them my way.......I'll take care of the rest

Originally Posted by silverloaf

oops! Just did a quick look thru all the boxes at home, did a little counting.......647 so far, didn't bother counting cracked blades that need to be tossed. Still some more blades tucked away at my other shop, maybe a couple dozen at most..... I think.
As far as quality vs quantity, I always try to buy the best quality of quantity I can find, and make sure that what I'm purchasing can be turned into quality if it isn't there yet. Like some of these Attachment 278737Attachment 278738Attachment 278739Attachment 278740Attachment 278741

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I hope you have a safe. Insurance would only cover a fraction of what those are worth unless you have them covered somehow under a business plan.

Originally Posted by Gasman

@MichaelS Are we talking hundreds of razors in each box or six to eight laid out in holders? Just curious. Nice setup and I love the way you have separated them in groups. Very nice file boxes.

Gasman, roughly between 5 and 25 per box, mostly about 20 or so....the IKEA boxes are about 50c each

Originally Posted by silverloaf

I think perhaps we would all like a new thread just showing the contents of those boxes! If you don't want to be bothered to do so, please sign this contract and send them my way.......I'll take care of the rest

Where to find the time and I'm just such a lousy photographer (pocket Canon Powershot and that's it). I like your own razors BTW!

I am at around 60. Still looking for my best razors I can't find after our move. I also have about 15 to 20blades with no scales.

Slawman

Originally Posted by silverloaf

oops! Just did a quick look thru all the boxes at home, did a little counting.......647 so far, didn't bother counting cracked blades that need to be tossed. Still some more blades tucked away at my other shop, maybe a couple dozen at most..... I think.
As far as quality vs quantity, I always try to buy the best quality of quantity I can find, and make sure that what I'm purchasing can be turned into quality if it isn't there yet. Like some of these Attachment 278737Attachment 278738Attachment 278739Attachment 278740Attachment 278741

I found many I had forgotten about at my other shop, plus the ones I still haven't received in the mail this week, total is north of 700 so far (Found some really good ones too!) but I'm done counting til I slim down this pile some and finish moving out of my old shop completely. Funny thing is I have been finding razors I purchased several years ago intended solely as quick flippers, never meant to stay in the collection........... bwahahahahaha, well it was a nice thought I guess

I'm extremely selective, I only want or own NOS razors plus I usually sell before I buy another, so I usually have no more than around 14 razors at any given time, all my razors are users I couldn't bare to keep a tool and simply look at it, made for a purpose never a collector always a user.

Originally Posted by silverloaf

I found many I had forgotten about at my other shop, plus the ones I still haven't received in the mail this week, total is north of 700 so far (Found some really good ones too!) but I'm done counting til I slim down this pile some and finish moving out of my old shop completely. Funny thing is I have been finding razors I purchased several years ago intended solely as quick flippers, never meant to stay in the collection........... bwahahahahaha, well it was a nice thought I guess

When you get around to flipping, I am only right across the New York/Vermont border.