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

Great post! Now I really want a Mastro Livi razor. Getting yours directly from his shop with his kind and passionate guidance certainly adds to the experience. Maybe I should wait and buy one from him when I am in Italy one day. Looking forward to seeing some pictures! Thanks for sharing.

I am glad you liked my post. I can tell you Mastro Livi guidance, help and kindness certainly are a magnificent bonus to the experience. However, there is no doubt about this, Mastro Livi's razors are just wonderful no matter what you have the luck - like me - to live in Perugia and easily go to his shop, or far away and probably order one from him.
I am truly expecting a wonderful experience by shaving with his razor as well as admiring it in my collection.
Stay tuned: I will certainly be posting more pictures of my experience.

Razorguy thank you very much for sharing that with us. It made for an even more pleasant Sunday morning here. Coffee, the New York Times and then this story. I think I will need a cigar now.
Any rentals in your area? I have always wanted to retire to a quiet town in Italy and say no to telephones, newspapers and television and just relax for a few years.

Kindly express my admiration and thanks to the Livi gentlemen who's love of their craft and talent provide many pleasures
for men the world over.

My pleasure to share this with you all. Most important, I am glad my post contributed to make your Sunday morning a pleasant one.
As for rentals in my beloved region or city, of course we have so many country houses in very quiet places surrounded with suggestive and lovely view. And, as far as I can tell, there are many "foreigners" coming to Umbria for the very same reason as your wish.

I will certainly bring your admiration and thanks to Mastro Livi and his family when I will go back to his shop and get my razor. Of course, I am just one of the many men of the world who are expressing the very same feeling for the Mastro art and talent.

In my previous post, I forgot to say the Mastro gave me three DVDs in which he shows the making of a straight razor and barber's scissors.
The videos are amazing and show the birth of a straight razor and a barber's scissors from a raw Damascus steel bar, plus the endless art and talent of Mastro Livi. Simply amazing. Highly educational videos, I am sure every straight razor lover would appreciate to watch.
Moreover, in one of these video, Mastro Livi is filmed while he is showing the creation of a straight razor in a public square of Scarperia (near Florence, Italy). Breathtaking videos!
In two of these videos - the one of the making of the straight razor in this square and the barber's scissors one - is also filmed Lynn Abrams, accounting every single phase of the making.
At the end of the straight razor making, both Mastro Livi and Lynn Abrams, as well as a gentleman I do not know, are being shaved with this freshly made razor by, I guess, a professional barber, lucky them!
I don't know whether Lynn Abrams is reading this, however I would appreciate if he could share with us the experience of that day, when the Mastro made that razor in this square, as well as how it was like being shaved with that beautiful razor which, if I am not wrong, the Mastro gave him at the end of production with a warm dedication.

This thread is bringing back some wonderful memories for me.

I would love to go back and spend some more time with Mastro Livi, Luca and our extended Italian family.

This trip was a dream come true for me and they will have to pry the razor that I was presented in Scaperia from my cold dead hands as the gentleman said........

Here is the link to the old thread from my visit:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/gener...rip-italy.html

Have fun

Well written !

Originally Posted by Lynn

This thread is bringing back some wonderful memories for me.

I would love to go back and spend some more time with Mastro Livi, Luca and our extended Italian family.

This trip was a dream come true for me and they will have to pry the razor that I was presented in Scaperia from my cold dead hands as the gentleman said........

Here is the link to the old thread from my visit:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/gener...rip-italy.html

Have fun

Thank you Lynn for your reply and for posting the link of your trip to Italy which I read and commented. Not to mention, what a pleasure to see the pictures of the razor the Mastro gave to you. Simply "WOW"!
In case you are planning to come back to Italy and visit my wonderful city as well as visiting the Mastro's bottega, please let me know: I will bring nice wines and, yes, let the party begin! It would be a tremendous pleasure to meet you all and share the same passions. I am sure I will have a lot to learn and understand.

Great Story!
I cant wait to see how it ends
Mike

Thank you gentlemen! I will certainly keep posting on this thread all the new updates, not to mention, pictures of the razor as soon as the Mastro gives it to me!