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    Quote Originally Posted by ndw76 View Post
    There is obviously a problem with over hunting. The straight razor is a species that is highly vulnerable to over hunting. All it takes is one collector in an area to totally wipe out a population of straight razors in an antique store.
    Sooo... You were just going to look at those razors in their natural environment? Maybe take a few photos? Only feed those ducks breadcrumbs? Only fiddle a few tunes with the filharmonicas?

    I can symphatize though - Going round antique shops, fleamarkets etc here is pretty much a waste of time. I hope you find something nice to look at some of these days =)

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    Luckily i live in a backyard of the world. Straight shaving is not a growing trend here, at least not yet. When any trend or fashion or whatever comes popular here it's already has been from the rest of the world.

    There are still, if not plenty, but some amount of straights for sale in our local net auctions and antique stores. Mostly Swedish and German blades. Just checked from the local auction and the prices are somewhere between 5 - 20 €. I bet most of those wont sell.

    If/when straights come back to business here again, then me and Ursus are going to get dirty rich just be selling our few from our own at the price of Filarmonicas
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Luckily i live in a backyard of the world. Straight shaving is not a growing trend here, at least not yet. When any trend or fashion or whatever comes popular here it's already has been from the rest of the world.

    There are still, if not plenty, but some amount of straights for sale in our local net auctions and antique stores. Mostly Swedish and German blades. Just checked from the local auction and the prices are somewhere between 5 - 20 €. I bet most of those wont sell.

    If/when straights come back to business here again, then me and Ursus are going to get dirty rich just be selling our few from our own at the price of Filarmonicas
    Awwww. I wanted to be stinking rich nooow... =)

    Here's hoping for that day.
    Sadly, many of those deals are pretty worse for wear and a bit of a gamble.

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    Been out hunting today. Today I was at a local antiques fair. I actually found a straight razor but had run out of money at this stage. But I did manage to find the elusive cousin of the straight razor, the natural whet stone. So I came home with a bbw/coticule, something that could be a natural bevel setter and a grubby thing that was once used by a butcher. A good morning of hunting.

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    Congrats on a great find! Can you post a picture of your new hone? If you can you should post it in a new thread under the hones forum or show and tell. The Hones forum would probably be the better place. Thanks for sharing.
    “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein)

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