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

Mastro Livi placing a block of olive wood in the lathe




Mastro Livi making a cylinder out from a block of olive wood




Mastro Livi cutting a block of pau violeta




Mastro Livi making a cylinder out from a block of pau violeta

Originally Posted by razorguy

Mastro Livi placing a block of olive wood in the lathe




Mastro Livi making a cylinder out from a block of olive wood




Mastro Livi cutting a block of pau violeta




Mastro Livi making a cylinder out from a block of pau violeta

I love all this kind of work with machines!!!!!!!

I wish I hadn't read this thread, haha. Now I want one for myself. Beautiful work...it would be the highlight of my collection (which is still practically nonexistent). I will wait and learn what I like the most, and then take the plunge. I just hope Maestro doesn't decide to retire before then!

Originally Posted by Moonshae

I just hope Maestro doesn't decide to retire before then!

Don't worry: Mastro Livi is alive and kicking and has no intention to give up making straight razor. His whole life has been dedicated to this - carrying on a family heritage of six generations long, starting at the beginning of the 1700s - and he is involved in making and experimenting razor every day of his life.
I would strongly suggest you to come to Perugia and visit Mastro Livi laboratory: watching the making of your straight razor is a wonderful experience, not to mention the pleasure of testing it in Mastro Livi barbershop.

The block of juniper wood in the lathe ready to be rounded




Mastro Livi rounding the block of Makassar ebony




Mastro Livi operating the lathe and making the pau violeta disk




The disk of juniper wood ready to be refined and drilled

Originally Posted by razorguy

The block of juniper wood in the lathe ready to be rounded




Mastro Livi rounding the block of Makassar ebony




Mastro Livi operating the lathe and making the pau violeta disk




The disk of juniper wood ready to be refined and drilled

Thanks a lot for these pictures. Very interesting to watch him work.

Originally Posted by Midoio

Thanks a lot for these pictures. Very interesting to watch him work.

I always love watching Mastro Livi at work!

Drilling the cylinder of amboyna burl. This will be the bottom part of the handle




Drilling the olive burl piece in order to accommodate the loft with a 24 mm knot




Refining the bottom of the amboyna piece




All the handle's pieces are now finished and ready to be assembled together in order to form the handle.

From left to right:

• Amboyna burl piece to be used for the bottom of the handle
• Pau Violeta disk
• Juniper disk
• Makassar ebony disk
• Olive burl piece to be used for the top of the handle and for assembling the loft

On the top, the badger silvertip loft with 24 mm knot

So cool! If I can ever get my lathe over here from my mothers house, I could do some things like that!

Mastro Livi at the lathe starting to shape the assembled handle for "Rasoio Italiano"




Shaping of the handle at the lathe




Refining the handle at the lathe




Initial cleaning and polishing of the handle