How many straight razors do you have? Are they shave ready?
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How many straight razors do you have? Are they shave ready?
I recently sold 3, so now I'm only down to 2!!!''
They are both shave ready, rotated daily in fact.
I'm starting to have small anxiety attacks....I need a few more blades..:hmmm:
8 currently in possession.
1 from gssixgun on the way
1 from ebay on the way
1 from the classifieds on the way
I want 5 more "vintage" razors to round things out
My RAD comes in waves
I have yet to get anything from "gssixgun" that i wasn't happy with. Congrats and i don't think you can ever have too many!Quote:
Originally Posted by Crzylizard
I have about 11 or 12 razors that are all 4/8 and under that I rotate - all shave ready. Two bigger ones I got just to make sure that my 4/8 and under thing wasn't a mistake - shave ready. Then another bunch (under ten I think) that struck me as I surfed the Bay that I'll restore one day. They are all different sizes and some are very handsome!
Maybe I should get gssixgun to finish some of those "handsome" ones - the blades I have seen him finish are remarkable!
This may sound psychotic, but I have way too many for someone who has only been using them for 4 months. I have been wheelin' and dealin' and sold some music equipment I wasn't using. I also started right on my birthday and got a bit o' moolah from my parents and grandparents. So I dove in headfirst and I have 19 Shave ready razors, 8 in the midst of some sort of restoration, and 3 that I have given away to people to get them started with wet-shaving, and 3 duds. I have used all of my shave ready razors at least twice, and most a lot more than that. I have also re-sold 10 that I either didn't like, or just didn't suit me. I sold some 4/8's because I didn't like the feel of the smaller razor.
So long story short I have about 30 right now :overkill: . I have seven in a rotation(6 double jimped), and about 4 other favorites that I sub in and out... Well that's it.
I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate me. :w
I am down to about 32, not including two 7 day sets. Most are shave ready and I have a few that are resto projects. For some reason, I needed every single one and I still need more, even though I haven't used some of them. Welcome to RAD at its finest!
I have too many and not enough depending on which _AD has a hold on me at any given moment. Our love of straight razor shaving can be a long slippery slope but it is a great ride. : )
6 Mos ago I had 130,down to 18,all shave ready, all in rotation.
I haven't counted them and don't want to. I have way more than 20 and probably not more than 50, but they're all shave ready.
Jealous. I still don't have a 7 day set.Quote:
Originally Posted by aljasier
I honestly don't know or care.
I'm busy buying my last razor one razor at a time.
Not all of them are shave ready but I do have about a 30 day rotation. LOL
As a noob, hearing this makes me wonder how bad my RAD will get. It's like asking permission from crack head if I have the qualitites be a crack head too.
That had to be tough downsizing that much! 18's a good number though.Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelfixed
I'm at around 30
I'd say 17 are shave ready and the rest just need a good honing.
Just gave two away to get some folks into it.
About to sell off a few to buy new ones.
Piece of cake actually,I had stuff I had not seen in decades,so did the wife,new edict is: you don't use it, get rid of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZeroCool
Rounding out at 120+ all shave ready and no its not enough.
I must have more!
Give me more!
Oh by the way it helps to be single to accrue a collection in the high numbers.
over 200. prob about 140 shave ready.
I have too many from a practical point of view, but never enough from an interest point of view. That is the problem when you are an accumulator - there's always an interesting one around the corner - all inputs, no outputs! :D
James.
Give me some :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo
60ish that I shave with (not counting individual blades from an interchangeable blade 7-day set). Probably 15 more beyond that, but I'm preparing to sell some that fall outside my interest range, which at this point has settled on oddities and pre-1850 Sheffield.
That's also not counting the three I just got from eBay and the one Glen has.
I can sort of imagine having all I'm going to get, but I'm not very close to that. I count my collection more by what I don't have yet than what I do have. (If only I'd gotten that George Savage the other day... I only have ONE Savage!)
I don't know, but I've got an Alembic Case on the way, plus one Dovo leather pouch, plus an old box for a matched pair of bigger blades. So I'll be culling down to ten soon. Simplify, simplify! And free up some $$ to grow my strop collection.
Sick!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarkus
Sicker!!Quote:
Originally Posted by nicknbleeding
Sickest!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo
You guys are SICK! You need help! :D
Hopefully by the end of this month, I'll have 5. Of those 5, I currenlty have 2, one of which is shave ready, and I'm awaiting the other 3 lol. I could never have more than 10, ever. It just loses meaning in my opinion when you have loads and loads of razors.
I think I've got 15-ish. I use some for woodworking, and some for learning restoration, and some for shaving. So, out of the fifteen I really only have three that I shave with.
So who is going for the 365 day set?
At the moment Ive got over 150. I was at one stage over 200 but I'm making a concerted effort to reduce the number. I've also got a cigar box with around 40 scaleless blades. I'd say that around 120 of the straights are shave ready
You are lucky! That puts you in the sick category! You have hope!Quote:
Originally Posted by johnmrson
I've also got about 100 safety razors but I'm trying to cull them down as well because I don't use them very much at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Ohhhh! You fellows make me feel SO much better about myself! I am not alone! :rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by johnmrson
I have 12. 2 are mid-restore; the others are shave ready.
I could shave with a diff razor every day for 5 weeks. All but one is shave ready.
Lucky number 13, but willing to grow. PM me if you have a Dubl duck goldedge round point you are willing to part with.:)
Dear Wife,
Just to be precise, my involvement in this endeavor is strictly limited to the extent of my participation.
I learned that while living in D.C.. Kind of like what the definition of is, is! :jedi:
Regards,
Howard
You guys are all sick! :D
"Amen"Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Howard
I am down to five in my personal rotation. I may be adding a sixth.
These razors are either special because of the scales, the age, sentimental value, or how they shave - ultimately every time I use any of them it's an absolute pleasure.
I've had lots of great razors - but I finally decided one day - why bother shaving with a great razor that is, relative to the others, not as pleasurable to use?
I counted 38 in one box. I'm not going to hunt for the other boxes right now, I don't want to feel as sick as I probably am. Two are shave ready, just used my Genco Easy Aces tonight in fact.
I came from carts to straights, then a huge bulk buy from an old barber got my RAD kicked up to astronomical proportions. I had to focus on one thing at a time, so I went with the cheaper version and built my Safety collection. Figured I'd wait to switch back to straights until I got down to only the ultra expensive DE toys left on my dreamlist, then the Straights wouldn't I might want won't seem so expensive in comparison.
More then 120 , about 30 shave ready in rotation.
Would like to go down to 20-30 but i dont now how. Its not easy.
Somewhere around 400. I just need one more. This picture was two years ago.