Paying it Forward and the cost incurred.
I'll start off by saying this: I lent out a razor and half way through the shave, the loanee dropped and broke the blade on m SFK stamped Wapi.....Paying it forward: the concept of asking the beneficiary of a good deed to repay it to others instead of to the original benefactor.My buddy Matt (Ironsidegnr) went to Italy for a tour with the Royal Canadian Air Force in support of the Libya mission.
While there, he got into shaving with a straight razor. Returning home, he started to mention how nice of a shave it was. I ignored him. After a while, he started doing light restorations and custom scale work; mostly simple wood work, traditional designs, but solidly built and quality work. Matt lent me a Morley and Sons Clover brand razor that provided me with my first, eye-opening, shaving experience. The blade stayed in my hands for about a month before I sourced my very own razor.
This whole time I made every effort to treat it as my own, maintain it and clean it thoroughly after every use; I never put it away wet. I suppose Matt was lucky to have lent something to someone like me, who takes pride in their posessions and treats them as such. I however was not so lucky with my experience in getting someone interested in shaving. By not fault of the individual I lent the razor to, other than, maybe, a little complacency and a rushed approach to wanting to get into SR shaving.
Needless to say, one of my favourite razors, a stamped, NOS, SFK Wapienica is ruined and I'm left stuck between a rock and a hard place. Part of me just wants the money it cost me to source this. I ordered it from a guy in Bulgaria and paid $60 which included shipping. The other part of me wants to have the razor replaced. These seem to be few and far between these days and the ones I have seen in NOS (can't find any right now) are fetching, in cases, a larger sum of money than what it cost me to purchase one.
Everything set aside, the guy I lent the razor to had a good shave out of the blade and doesn't want to give up trying. The next razor I lend him will be one I consider a 'junker', you know, an e-bay special! He'll get something that I shave with in my rotation that I've put an awesome edge on but won't cost me an arm and a leg to replace!
Re: Paying it Forward and the cost incurred.
I give things to people, never lend them, personally. That way I feel good that I've given someone an unexpected gift, and they feel good to have something nice when they didn't expect it. Everybody is happy and no worries about getting something back damaged.
Re: Paying it Forward and the cost incurred.
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Originally Posted by
brooksie967
I've also made it clear to my buddy that IF he decides to buy one of my razors that I'll hone it for him if it needs touching up. He's also got my strop and my boar brush.Am I out of touch here? Is what I've tried to do not paying it forward!?
Just giving him the stuff would be.
Paying it Forward and the cost incurred.