The journey of 1000 miles starts...
Hello,
I've been lurking around here for a few months. Been reading and studying a lot and finally decided to go out and find something to start with.
So the adventure begins in sunny California.. I wake up, get ready, hop in the car and drive to a gun show in Glendale. I figured that there had to be someone there with a few razors and had been conjuring dreams of finding an old stock of Escher hones or Filly NOS that was just laying in a box. ... is it just me or does everyone do this LOL.
So I make the 45 minute drive and get a good parking spot, pay my entrance fee, walk in and realize... i barely know where to look. So I just start walking around in a slight daze feeling happy just to be there.
So there are guns and knives everywhere, cheap stuff, expensive stuff, you name it. But right where I had walked in was a nice gentleman with a bunch of old cases that I had missed on my first walk through (heck his was the first booth you saw when you walked in and paid!). I start looking around and then notice in the far in back left, where you had to squeeze by the next vendors booth.. there it was! A case with several straight razors.
I felt like a kid in a candy shop and quickly asked if I might look through the case. He opens up the homemade glass top fastened together with a black tape that was falling apart. I am staring at an array of various old razors in every shape imaginable, so, hesitatingly, I begin to pick them up and inspect them one by one. I open up one and find a name I recognize JR Torrey... I get excited and do my best to hide it. I find a few more interesting ones and know that I will be purchasing a few.
I gather my courage and form the cooly delivered question... "How much are you asking for these?". The man with the white beard glances my direction and shrugs, "10 bucks a piece." I nod in understanding, hand him a few of my selections to hold while I go somewhere to scream in joy.. quietly..
So now I have these... let the restorations begin.
A Robert Klaas Prussia - Crane Razor
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...eRazorCase.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...raneRazor2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...CraneRazor.jpg
JR Torrey - needs a bit more work
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2.../JRTorrey2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/JRTorrey.jpg
Clauss Barbers Special - this appears to have never been used or honed - maybe hard to tell in the picture though.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rsSpecial2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ersSpecial.jpg
My goal is to learn with these, restoration, honing, and of course shaving.
All I can say is that was a lot of fun and I'm looking foward to my next adventure! Now to go find some good hones lurking at the swap meets....
Until next time!
Stay sharp,
CZ
