Thread: what was he thinking, this mysterious man ?

You bought a vintage or antic SR and you are happy, because it looks nice and because you will restore it.
Now this razor is yours
But do you think ? ...

...Behind this razor there IS the history of a man (a mysterious man that you don’t know and you will never know) who he shaved every morning, maybe to go to his job, to go to meet his sweetheart, to go to the war and maybe never come back and never touch again his SR.
Shaving is an intimate moment, what was he thinking when he shaved? His sweetheart, his family, his fears, money, ambition, death?

Now this SR is yours,
So, in your workshop, in front of your tools, when you will remove the pin of THIS SR or when you polish the blade, think about that !

bye

I often wonder the history of a vintage blade, whom it belonged to and how many it's been owned by before and their lives etc. what kind of man bought for instance a 1840 razor new. The United States was only 64 years old. Could be he was a young child when Independence was declared. What were his dreams etc. as a history buff I think of stuff like this often

Laurent, you need to study the books written by Rusell Targ (a laser physisisicist) and Jane Katra (a spiritual healer). They have finally declassified the CIA-funded psi studies they were involved in and profited immensely by publishing a few books on the subject!

If you get "into it" I highly suggest you get competent at Ben Kingsley morphing, specifically from the movie "Suspect 0" (zero, not O). You're only a trance state away from the answer to all of your questions.

Originally Posted by AxelH

away from the answer to all of your questions.

I don't seek any answers

Originally Posted by laurent

I don't seek any answers

I think it is more fun to wonder. I do the same with my old pocket knives and wonder what stories they could tell.

Yes, that brings to mind the case of the haunted kamisori and that mysterious young Japanese kamakazee Pilot.

Hmm I wonder what happened to him.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Yes, that brings to mind the case of the haunted kamisori and that mysterious young Japanese kamakazee Pilot.

Hmm I wonder what happened to him.

A legend that will never die!

Originally Posted by laurent

Shaving is an intimate moment

Sometimes those thoughts go through my mind when I drink a glass of water. What is more intimate than letting the same H2O course through your veins that has coursed through the veins of so many others in not only the recent past but for millenniums? Was the very same water I am drinking now refreshing for them when they drank it? Or did they accidentally swallow it as they were drowning, dreading every last fluid ounce of it? Was it part of their first suckle as an infant or was it part of their last gasping effort to quench the unquenchable thirst of a passing soul? Was it someone experiencing the freedom of a parched throat or the captivity of being waterboarded?

Sometimes it is better to just drink it and go on with your life, other times there is cause for pause - and now, for me, that time has passed. Nobody knows when it will strike again

Originally Posted by coachschaller

Excellent! Our imaginations do tend to exaggerate

I was just about to say the same thing!

This is why I buy vintage blades instead of the new ones. Having grown up on a farm I always think of previous blade owners being everyday blue chip men. Farmers, miners, rail workers.

Being half german I wonder too how many of my very small collection have shaved other german faces as well.

Or the very razor you now loving polish and hone and strop might be the very razor some deranged syphilis infected fiend used the cut the throat of his infecting lover or some poor wretch in an alleyway in some forgotten town and haphazardly thrown into the nearest garbage pail only to be discovered by some grubby garbage man who upon finding it thought he in fact found a treasure because he could never afford such a nice a razor as he now held in his hand and now you hold in yours. Perhaps a cursed razor forever bound to cut the throat of its next owner, patiently waiting ......