I'm currently on holiday in Australia visiting my family. But this is really just an excuse to hunt through antique stores looking for straight razors and anything else to do with shaving. Unfortuantly it seems that since last year, when I made a similar trip, straight razors have become an endangered species. It wasn't long ago when one could find one or two pairs of straight razors in most antique shops. But it seems that straight razors have been hunted almost to the brink of extinction. It looks like the days when one could walk into an antique store and walk out with a couple of good straight razors has long pasted.

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.

So far on my holiday I haven't found one straight razor amongst a group of antique stores that had last year yealded almost fifteen pairs of straights. It won't be long before the only place one can find straight razors will be in the zoo of ebay.