Thread: My Mastro Livi razor, at last: a wonderful life experience!

Originally Posted by taskind

french point ,hakapela damascus stainless steel, abalone scale, 6/8 ( I could not dare for 7/8 because I never used that big) . My name is Taskin . I hope it will be ready till 27 th june because my 47 year birthday .

Best wishes for your next birthday and congratulations on your excellent choice of steel and the handle. It will be a ​​great gift I have no doubt. After a bit 'of time you can with the 7/8, could be the right opportunity for another gift?

Originally Posted by razorguy

Gentlemen,
you should know our friend stefanosup did it again! Last week he came to Perugia and ordered a new razor for his collection (I guess he is now the main Mastro Livi collector in the world!) and that was a good chance for me to shoot a new video about Mastro Livi making a San Mai damascus for this razor.
I hope you will enjoy Mastro Livi expressing his art and talent!

Antonello Hello, I'm happy to see me in this video that reminds me of all the emotions experienced in the lab where the air is scented with pure art. You gave me a scepter a little 'heavy. I am a collector of razors Mastro Livi, this is but the most 'important of the world is perhaps excessive. I see here that there are many friends who proudly possess these masterpieces, all beautiful and unique. That's' cause even if you do not know English well, when I enter here I feel at home. Thanks again for all your availability 'and kindness and congratulations for the video!

Dear Stefanosup, It is a really beatiful razor, be happy with it. You did a good job with rasorguy also. You made a good team, I felt I was watching discovery channel documentary. I appreciate you because Whenever I get in you tube I look for a new video of Mastro Livi, to see a real master working on a razor, with confidence, knowing what he is doing very well with all aspects because of years of experience. But I am a little bit upset rasorguy. Why did not he shoot the honing part. I nearly in love Mastro's honing technique. No microscope, no lots of so called magical numbers of strokes..

Originally Posted by taskind

Dear Stefanosup, It is a really beatiful razor, be happy with it. You did a good job with rasorguy also. You made a good team, I felt I was watching discovery channel documentary. I appreciate you because Whenever I get in you tube I look for a new video of Mastro Livi, to see a real master working on a razor, with confidence, knowing what he is doing very well with all aspects because of years of experience. But I am a little bit upset rasorguy. Why did not he shoot the honing part. I nearly in love Mastro's honing technique. No microscope, no lots of so called magical numbers of strokes..

Thank you for the compliments and definitely my new razor is beautiful but 'I tell you, you happened to see some pictures of razors made ​​by Mastro Livi ugly? I still do not, I have not seen. I got it though Razorguy will 'be more' accurate. The sharpening stones on razors made ​​by Mastro Livi art is wonderful but there are already 'many videos that take it back. That's' cause I do not think that Razorguy has put her on the video. In this way, the minutes are more 'content.
I went once in Perugia and was a whole afternoon to learn about sharpening stones. It 'was the visit more' important that I have done in the laboratory of Mastro Livi. I could understand not only how to do it, but most of the point of arrival.
All explained by Mastro Livi, simple and effective. If one day you're going to Perugia, this will be 'the lesson more' important!

Originally Posted by stefanosup

Antonello Hello, I'm happy to see me in this video that reminds me of all the emotions experienced in the lab where the air is scented with pure art. You gave me a scepter a little 'heavy. I am a collector of razors Mastro Livi, this is but the most 'important of the world is perhaps excessive. I see here that there are many friends who proudly possess these masterpieces, all beautiful and unique. That's' cause even if you do not know English well, when I enter here I feel at home. Thanks again for all your availability 'and kindness and congratulations for the video!

I am very glad to know you liked the video is which you are one of the protagonists! Frankly speaking, I am afraid - and as far as I know - there are not so many out there who own all the Mastro Livi razors you have, and I guess you will not stop here! I am sure your collection will keep growing!

Originally Posted by taskind

Dear Stefanosup, It is a really beatiful razor, be happy with it. You did a good job with rasorguy also. You made a good team, I felt I was watching discovery channel documentary. I appreciate you because Whenever I get in you tube I look for a new video of Mastro Livi, to see a real master working on a razor, with confidence, knowing what he is doing very well with all aspects because of years of experience. But I am a little bit upset rasorguy. Why did not he shoot the honing part. I nearly in love Mastro's honing technique. No microscope, no lots of so called magical numbers of strokes..

Thank you very much for your appreciation! As for the honing part missing in this video, stefanosup guessed it right. Mastro Livi honing and stropping a razor has been filmed in all the previous videos I made, so I thought this time I could "ignore" it while concentrating on the art of san mai damascus making.
You are right: Mastro Livi does not use any microscope, no "magic" numbers, not even a magic trick to suggest. He simply hones razor and does that magnificently. I understand his over 60 years of daily honing count a lot, this is a remarkable experience which is very hard to acquire in a short time, at least in my opinion. He started honing razors when he was 12 (or 14, maybe) and he never stopped since then. I guess he hones more than 10 razors every day and he says he used to hone even more in the past when barbers were still using real straight razors. Mastro Livi's father taught him how to hone razors, including knives, scissors and countless of cutting tools.

As soon as I 'a bit' of time certainly put 'a few more photos of my razors and especially I will like' to share a photograph of a small cabinet in olive wood that Mastro Livi built for my razors. We must not forget that the hands are magic Mastro Livi and her artistic talent inexhaustible. Not only with steel, but also with the wood is capable of doing wonderful things. Generally talented artists express themselves more with different materials and techniques. The great painters are also sculptors. Mastro Livi is a great example of artistic versatility.

I just read all 44 pages of this thread!! WOW! Love the work he does!! Interesting to see the stainless RWL-34 forged and oil quenched!! Are any of the burls he uses stabilized (acrylic impregnated)?

Originally Posted by taz575

I just read all 44 pages of this thread!! WOW! Love the work he does!! Interesting to see the stainless RWL-34 forged and oil quenched!! Are any of the burls he uses stabilized (acrylic impregnated)?

Thank you so much for having read all of the 44 pages of this thread! Wow!
RWL34 straight razors made by Mastro Livi are simply amazing and I guess many of the ones who own such a razor can confirm that.
As far as I know, most of the wood Mastro Livi uses for scales is stabilized with resin and therefore it is very hard and water resistant.

That's what I figured, especially with the dyed woods. I know burls can be weak sometimes or very soft to work with. I am going to rehandle a razor one of these days and I am debating what wood/material to use! I think I have some amboyna that may work!!