Originally Posted by
Mauri
You started feeding your RAD with a great taste, I have to say... I have not been so able, and bought a lot of crap in the first month...
Now I have refined my taste and decided to limit my collection in my way: I'm only interested in pre-1891 razors.
This doesn't mean that I don't appreciate your beauties, they are wonderful. I just don't want to spend my energies in that direction...
But I feel at ease enough, now, to advice you to "set your goal": I mean, if you decide what kind of razor can be good to you and what not, you will get much more fun and your RAD will turn, sooner or later, in a very good investment also: a valuable collection.
For example, you could decide that you want only razors that:
- Come from a defined period
- Are first class shavers
- Are works of art
- Have a particular history
- have a defined shape
- Are made from a defined kind of steel
- Have some particular features that makes them unique or rare in the market of STR8s
... and so on. You could also want STR8S that have some (or all) of these features... It's up to you! :)
Building a collection is a form of art as well, IMHO. It has much to say about the collector, at least how much it has to say about his pieces!