Quote Originally Posted by bman40 View Post

The idea of self-sufficiency that this hobby promises really appeals to me. As a child of the Cold War, growing up with the threat of nuclear holocaust hanging over us, things one coudl learn to do 'after the apocalypse' have always appealed to me: cooking, baking, knitting, coffee roasting, wood turning, carpentry, and now, maintaining a razor.

This way, I can be torn to pieces by radioactive zombies in a nice sweater, drinking a coffe, while eating a sandwich of home made bread out of a hand-turned wooden bowl, with a wonderfully clean shave....

Barry

I've been putting a little bit away every week planning for the proverbial TEOTWAWKI (more like rise and fall of the roman empire and subsequent dark ages) for over a decade. You know, a few cans of food here, a few tons of wheat, beans, legumes and such, and it occurred to me that I too would want to be clean shaven while facing down hordes of marauding urban zombies one 55 grain FMJ round at a time from a distance but my electric razor - which I wasn't really enjoying using anyway - would be fried in an EMP attack anyway, so I stockpiled several thousand DE razor blades, and a few dozen straight razors, some hones, strops, soaps/creams, with lots of extras for barter/trade and I'm set for anything. Cheap insurance.