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I agree with Glen - that has to be for a specific instrument/purpose. I can't understand the language, but I'm guessing Antieke means antique? Wonder if it was for surgical or dental instruments?...

I don't have any links, but I might try to upload a music file of me playing. After I inherited my grandfather's tenor banjos I have gotten into traditional Irish music - I play the banjo...

Not much call for a straight on my face at the moment, but still use them on my head. Here is what I look like at the moment. I don't understand where the old man with the white beard came from to be...

Well I'm kinda back - in and out kind of back if you know what I mean. Watching from afar, weaving my web of tentacles, biding my time until it is not only ripe but a little bit too ripe, like...

Not sure where that one got to, after the labotomy my memory just isn't what it used to be!

James.

I've used a pumice stone, lightly, on small scratches with some effect. As Tim says, less is more. Start with nothing (eg rub with your hand); if that doesn't work very well do the bottle thing, if...

I hope it is not considered politics if I wish all my US brothers and sisters good luck today and that I and many others across the world will be watching and wishing you well from afar.

May the...

I can't remember who said it, and I am definitely paraphrasing this, but it goes something like: the people who put themselves up to govern the rest of us are typically not the sort of people we'd...

I guess we are "flat-honers". Just don't think I could ever come at using a dished stone, even out of curiosity. Though I have to say, I have an old DE blade hone/stropping "stone" that is...

The power point is cool - it's been adapted to just plug into mains power. As I said, I had been thinking of one for years so when we did our renovations year before last I had a power point put in...

Thanks Mike - everyone I talk to that has one swears by it. I'll see how I go with the drying feature - might get out the tools (a'la Tim from "Tool Time") and soup that baby up to jet engine. :D
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Yes, sorry - I like innuendo even when none really exists. The massage function is the toilet seat itself, and the "massage" is certain pulsing heat zones apparently. Get a glute workout while you...

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James.

The 24 hour news cycle has really killed the news for me. In Australia there's not a lot (compared, say, to the US) going on domestically at any particular moment, but we still need to talk about it...

Yes I totally agree Glen. Not only more attention in terms of making people aware of it but also in the geometry and balance of the blades themselves - some razors, especially the big boys, are...

lol! Yeah, it's one of those Japanese toilet sets that clean (warm water) and then dry. The one I got also has a heated seat and a "massage" function (don't ask....) and is self cleaning with silver...

4 sets of 200kg deadlift for 7 reps is bloody good if you have a dicky hip. Could it be related?

James.

Was there genuine suspicion around the mail-in ballots, or just allegations and innuendo? Seems to me the states have their protocols and requirements for mail in ballots - some of these were...

I just took stock of what I have coming in the mail - it's a little eclectic (maybe):


Coway electronic bidet toilet seat
3 Magnetic soap holders
Le Labo beard oil
2 bars of beard...

lol! That's a monster! Do you use it often?

James.

And, just for another datapoint, my Norton 4/8K combo stone has been sitting in water continuously since 2009. I use it on every honing job I do.

I guess, as they say, YMMV.

James.

Sorry, I didn't watch it all - I gave up at the first diagram when I couldn't see what "A" was.

Blade geometry isn't rocket science. Neither is removing metal from an edge to meet in a finer and...

It doesn't matter. Check out some of the razor club threads, for example. I have some custom razors that cost lots, but my go-to is still, and probably always will be, a 40 dollar Bengall by Cadman....

I heard it was a multi-use medium too. DJs back in the day would moonlight as assassin garroters and part-time fencing contractors :)

James.

Yes for sure. Even taking into account what thebigspendur said about say lighting, in my setup you have to buy a water reservoir (eg 20 liter storage container from Target or US equivalent -...