A Good Story Though Not A Good Shaver

[LawsonStone]

In a lot of razors I bought on eBay, I found two likely shavers, two I think will be my "learn to hone" razors, and one I call "the cowboy."

I love the scales, wish I had a usable razor with these. But the blade tells, I think, the story. I don't think this was originally a 4/8. This looks like a blade that a man shaved with most of his life. Honed, stropped, shaved with, stropped, re-honed, time and again.

Maybe he saddled up and took one last ride up the mountain, leaving his straight in his kit back at the ranch, hoping an heir, or someone would know it's soul-worth.

But they didn't. Ended up on eBay. But now it lives with me. I won't be shaving with it, but at least though it's story remains unknown and untold, it does not remain un-valued or disrespected.