Thread: Old Razors vs. New Razors

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

I have a Max custom that has a pink wedge because my daughter was sitting with me when I ordered it and thought it would be cool.

That's just fantastic. In a hundred years someone may be using that and just wonder why it has that pink wedge, brilliant!

Originally Posted by Porl

That's just fantastic. In a hundred years someone may be using that and just wonder why it has that pink wedge, brilliant!

Pretty cool.

I voted vintage even if only 2 of my 22 razors are vintage. I think that i will create such a bond with the Jerry Starks damascus custom that i ordered. It is due next month, i hope. We will see.

To tell you the truth i really like my Ralph Aust, probably because it is in the first pic you see when you open SRD. BUT!, i REALLY love that 1850 (or so) Wade and Butcher that i break rotation for. The same happens with a Geneva Pyramid that sixguns restored. They make me think of Clint Eastwood, shaving with a bowie knife and a small mirror in his hand in the middle of the desert...

i like both. if i had to decide, it is vintage, with a hint of nostalgia...

Ah nostalgia. I have a soft spots for safety razors, and it is 100% nostalgia: when my brother and me were kids, grandpa used to take out the blade of whatever safety razor (with butterfly doors) he had and give it to us. He also gave us a can of gooo, and let us play with them. Ohhh... those were the best of times. we ´shaved´, pretending we were men... I bet that grandpa secretly had a ball, showing the way to his little boys. For that alone one day that i was in Walgreens, i saw a Van Der Hagen DE with butterfly doors, and bought it not interested in its price ($20) or its quality (it is actually a pretty good shaver). From then on i bought every and all high end machined stainless steel safety razor in the market (to shave my head, my face i shave with my straights). Don't worry, they are not that many. Everything has its story. That is why i voted vintage.

Nice read. I empathize with your thoughts and feelings. I have been using SR's for nigh on 40 years. All those years, up into 2016 when I stumbled onto this site I was completely illiterate to SR's, and still am. Since being here I have improved my honing skills and restoration skills. The W&B I own, blade only as scales were trash, I have been working of getting it sharp, hasn't been easy. I have some deer horn I would like to manipulate to make scales for the W&B blade. I just need to discover how best to sharpen this thing. The cutting edge is straight as an arrow as if it had never been sharpened before and yet I have a rough time getting this thing to the proper cutting edge. I know, I know, send it off and have it done. Nah! Can't do that. Wanna do it myself. Stubborn ol goat. Yep. Thas me'es. I will get it. I am getting inspired to go get it and start. I am thinking start with 1000 Norton water stone. Been using nothing but 4000 and 8000. Oh well. I'll shut my yap an say guh da.