Thread: What is your favorite handle?

I only have razors with celluloid scales.

I am a bit worried though by some members' fascination with and use of certain handle materials. Hardwoods, horns, tusks and shells can be turned into stunningly beautiful scales. Unfortunately many of the plants and animals that do produce these materials are rare or even endangered. The demand for these products contributes to the extinction of rare creatures. Poaching also causes a lot of unnecessary suffering to animals.

I would like to stress that I do not intend to accuse any SRP member of involvement in the illegal trade of plant and/or animal products. I do hope that anyone who buys and uses those materials checks their origin first.

The ivory that our members use in scale-making is mammoth ivory. They've been extinct for millenia but their ivory can still be found. I fon't think deer/moose will be extinct any time soon as their numbers are being strictly controlled by various game authorities. I'll let Ed chime in on the hardwoods.

Does no one care about the poor helpless celluloids? Just because they're ugly doesn't mean they don't deserve care and protection as well.

In all seriousness, I *really* dislike the use of metal in the scales, except for the little thin endcaps or logos and such that you see on some razors. They're not handles, and you don't hold the razor by them, so the metal adds undesirable weight to achieve unneeded strength.

This is one of those things that's a dead giveaway that what you're looking at is a knife that looks like a razor, rather than a a real live razor.

Originally Posted by Kees

I only have razors with celluloid scales.

I am a bit worried though by some members' fascination with and use of certain handle materials. Hardwoods, horns, tusks and shells can be turned into stunningly beautiful scales. Unfortunately many of the plants and animals that do produce these materials are rare or even endangered. The demand for these products contributes to the extinction of rare creatures. Poaching also causes a lot of unnecessary suffering to animals.

I would like to stress that I do not intend to accuse any SRP member of involvement in the illegal trade of plant and/or animal products. I do hope that anyone who buys and uses those materials checks their origin first.

Hear hear! Give the man a chair and a great glass of whisky!

Originally Posted by Pinda

Hear hear! Give the man a chair and a great glass of whisky!

Wouldn't refuse either...

Let's open up a bottle and drink it together, while we agree on our statements. Could be a nice evening...

Just meet up halfway you two. Go to that barbershop that you discovered near Utrecht. You can do the men's equivalent of the Hair dryer.

Alex,

Is that shop any good? I have seen their site. I think that shop in Antwerp looks much nicer.

OK, let's all go to Antwerp and don't forget that bottle of liquid gold...

Have to go now, but I'll tell you later about Breukelen...or Brooklyn for that matter