Thread: The Collector's Dilema

Originally Posted by Phrank

Tom has at least 3....

It's a Mappin & Webb Lancet razor....listing said 8/8:

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Oh! It's a Mappin and Bros razor. Nothing to do with Webb!

Love those Mappin Lancets and similar ones!

It's a collector's dilemma To be sure!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

It's a collector's dilemma To be sure!

Boy, I look away for a leeeeeedle bit!

My new collector's dilema is not being able to use my straights for the next two weeks. I would bring them on my roadtrips, but I am concerned for my strops and possible theft.

I want a container for a strop that's near bullet proof...

Collectors dilemma? Hogwash.

A true collector has all his razors in pristine condition ready to do battle at a moments notice. If you don't you be a razor hoarder not a true collector.

A Dilemma cause you can't shave with a straight for a time. Get a cheap brush, some basic soap and an eboy special razor and take down the edge and after you shave with whatever you then do a psychological shave with the edge-less razor. Sounds dumb? Try it, it works.

Can't decide what razor to use? get some dice, number each razor and shoot the dice. get as many dice as you need to match how many razors you have. This will also either satisfy your gambling urge or cause you to head for the nearest casino and when you win you get to buy more razors. if you lose, well.....

Originally Posted by Jlander

This was the side of my sink two weeks ago. I just couldn't decide what to put out that morning, so I put out several.

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Guarantee that if I left that many razors laying around, my wife would pick one of them up at some point and fillet some part of me.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Collectors dilemma? Hogwash.

A true collector has all his razors in pristine condition ready to do battle at a moments notice. If you don't you be a razor hoarder not a true collector.

A Dilemma cause you can't shave with a straight for a time. Get a cheap brush, some basic soap and an eboy special razor and take down the edge and after you shave with whatever you then do a psychological shave with the edge-less razor. Sounds dumb? Try it, it works.

Can't decide what razor to use? get some dice, number each razor and shoot the dice. get as many dice as you need to match how many razors you have. This will also either satisfy your gambling urge or cause you to head for the nearest casino and when you win you get to buy more razors. if you lose, well.....

I disagree, if I took the time to solely work on rrazors, I'd be homeless and shaving with river water. As it stands, the amount of hours Iwork and my other hobbies, I'm lucky to get time to play with stones once a week.

I could travel with one of several ebay specials. And also risk my strop around maids and many drunken people. I am more protective of my strop than any razor I own.

Originally Posted by DaveW

Guarantee that if I left that many razors laying around, my wife would pick one of them up at some point and fillet some part of me.

I'm lucky. My wife looks at them from a far. Wont touch one unless I hand it to her, closed of course. And I've taught her how to close one properly by guiding it in.
But its still hard to pick for the many I have on what I want to use that night. Unless its something I recently honed. Then I try to use it a few times before I go on to another.