Aside from the beautiful photographs, videos, and informative descriptions this thread continues to provide, every now and again a nugget of information useful to me personally appears. I tend to go for ivory, mammoth, horn or bone scales. Wood is generally not my first choice, so when a friend offered this beautiful French point Mastro Livi to me, at an attractive price, I bought it in spite of the olive wood scales. Not that they are not very beautiful, but my aforementioned prejudice for the more exotic materials led me to not appreciate them.
Now that I know the olive wood was not ordered from some supplier, but was gathered by Mastro Livi himself, from his own backyard so to speak, it becomes an even more special razor to me. Thanks for keeping this ongoing thread interesting and informative. :chapeau
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