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07-27-2023, 02:34 AM #8
I'm more ADHD about it. I only have about 180-200 and some are in various states of restoration which pauses while I get stoked about something else. However, probably 7/8 of them are in one shavable condition or another. This is how it usually goes:
I will be on a chopper buzz for a while so I'll hit all the FBU's in rotation. Then the wild hare will find his way to that proverbial place and I will get on an American kick. I'll open the US drawer and dig through it until one makes me say, "hello beautiful," and out will come one or two. Normally it has been a while and I don't remember when or on what I last honed it; I'm not as conscientious as Jerry. I usually do an HHT and if it passes it will get the flax or if it barely passed it will go to the hemp and after that to leather. If it won't pass the HHT, and sometimes even if it will I'll hone it just because I love to hone. Sometimes I will finish on a different stone every other shave just for sport. Then usually I'm all in love with the American stuff for a while and all the others can piss up a rope. I'll go through the US drawer and shave with most of them during that phase. After a while I'll start to sing sad country songs about let's say Japanese or Russian ones and the cycle starts again. Next it might be a German kick. Ja wohl!!! You get the picture.
For a while I was buying razors all the time and that sparked my fancies for the various groups. Now I have enough that I will find razors I forgot I had and it's like getting new ones without spending any money...
OH, and I do the same thing with stones. I don't even know how many stones I have. Some of them that I pulled out of someone's garden and flattened out, I don't even know what the heck it is. A few of them are not so good but most of them I can get at least a good shave from while some leave spectacular edges like some quartzite, nephrite and slates I have "liberated." I even have some sandstone that performs pretty well mid range.
The curious kid lives on in my heart!Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17