Thread: Thieving Yanks

Maybe it's just mine, but I'm not a huge fan of Sheffield steel. I've got a wedge that I learned on and have had honed by a couple different folks. It just ain't that spectacular. It shaves well enough, and the history is cool, but I like my American steel a lot better. I've yet to have a fling with the German stuff yet but I'm a bit of a sucker for anything that comes from the country that gave us not just good beer but great sausages.

Originally Posted by bharner

Maybe it's just mine, but I'm not a huge fan of Sheffield steel. I've got a wedge that I learned on and have had honed by a couple different folks. It just ain't that spectacular. It shaves well enough, and the history is cool, but I like my American steel a lot better. I've yet to have a fling with the German stuff yet but I'm a bit of a sucker for anything that comes from the country that gave us not just good beer but great sausages.

Women, too.....

Originally Posted by DerekC

Women, too.....

I wish tapatalk had a "like" button. Back about ten years ago I was in Vienna for the summer and took the train up to spend a week in Berlin and Munich. I met a lively local lass on the train and she decided to spend the week with me. I think she was taking pity on me for my poor use of the German language. The lessons she gave me were... memorable.

Originally Posted by tekbow

Why is it that all the awesome vintage euro razors seem to turn up in flea markets etc across the states, and in the uk (where sheffield is) the best i can find are worn beyond honing, cracked and chipped POS's..?

Give our razors back immediately

PM me for my address and i will see they are properly redistributed to the peoples of the right hand side of the atlantic...

Such is the difference between free men in a Republic,and those who are subjects,in Socilist Europe.....such a pity.

Originally Posted by tekbow

Why is it that all the awesome vintage euro razors seem to turn up in flea markets etc across the states, and in the uk (where sheffield is) the best i can find are worn beyond honing, cracked and chipped POS's..?

Point of Order Mister Speaker. Only yesterday, I flogged the wee out of a local flea market and the only "awesome" import razors I could locate were from China and Pakistan respectively. Occassionally, I have been successful in finding some neat old razors at flea markets but it ain't like they're full of vintage Dubl Duck Goldenedges for $5. If there is such a place, I'd sure like to find it.

Originally Posted by bharner

Maybe it's just mine, but I'm not a huge fan of Sheffield steel. I've got a wedge that I learned on and have had honed by a couple different folks. It just ain't that spectacular. It shaves well enough, and the history is cool, but I like my American steel a lot better.

Try a Mappin & Webb or a Wostenholm and then tell me that you don't like Sheffield steel.....

Originally Posted by Wintchase

I think it was the Canadians seeding the US with British razors to start in fighting....Just remember, 65 percent of the Canadians live withing 60 miles of the US borders....They are massing for attack my friends..

Yes we are planning the invasion. We will destroy your culture and replace it with our own. By the end of the year you will all be watching hockey, drinking real beer or rye whiskey, and saying "eh".

Originally Posted by Ryan82

Try a Mappin & Webb or a Wostenholm and then tell me that you don't like Sheffield steel.....

I've got two wostenholm's I need to get fixed up. Maybe they'll change my mind... it could just be that I'm not a wedge kind of guy.

Originally Posted by bharner

I wish tapatalk had a "like" button. Back about ten years ago I was in Vienna for the summer and took the train up to spend a week in Berlin and Munich. I met a lively local lass on the train and she decided to spend the week with me. I think she was taking pity on me for my poor use of the German language. The lessons she gave me were... memorable.

That last part made me laugh!

I have a customer who served in the army, stationed in Deutschland for 8 years and....oh, the stories he had. Between the hazing from senior officers to the types of women to the wünderful cars...made me want to go there for an extended vacation.

Oh germany.. i love that place.. worked there a couple of times, again stunning women, great beers, awesome sausages and i'll also put a big up in for bratkartofflen.. fried potatoes, onion, bacon with a little mustard.. great stuff

So we're near the seaside, we have 3 days off while they're running casing, we think "there's this town nearby with a cold war era light sub hunter U Boat you can get in and look round, and there's a beach.."

Of course knowing the germans propensity for wearing very little on beaches, we're down there

Seriously.. lots of not much clothing, loads of changing in full view of everyone else, none of it done by anyone under the age of 70...