Thread: What Do You Have In The Mail Right Now?

Originally Posted by MattCB

Just arrived the other day.

New toy to play with, 3: wheels and compound yet to be ordered

New shiny.....

Now that's an awesome looking DE, and adjustable!!

Goal!!!!

Originally Posted by k5MOW

Wow very nice can you tell me where you got this and how much you pay for it.

Roger

Well, I got this offering to prepare it for a new member of our french forum, who had this beauty offered by a (surely good good) friend of him.

Lucky boy !

Originally Posted by rolodave

Well, that post was made 3/21 and I am still waiting. It appears the UNITED STATES POST OFFICE has lost my stone.

If USPS cannot give the people at Shapton any info today, Shapton will send me another stone. So, I will have to wait another week for my order.

Dave

The United States Post Office is off the hook. They did not missplace my hone.

The box was never mailed!

So, Best Sharpening Stone is Express Mailing it and I should receive the hone Monday or Tuesday. They are also refunding my shipping charges. Pretty decent of them.

You would think for a $130 USD hone FedEx or UPS would have been a more secure shipper.

Dave

Originally Posted by Phrank

Just arrived, one Wade and Butcher, 7/8 frame back, "The Unequalled & Justly Famed Patent Frame and Back Razor", and one 7/8, spike point (yea!), still very, very, sharp Double Duck Wonderedge. Both off for some reconditioning and honing.

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....and one 7/8, spike point (yuck!) I'da liked yer post but fer dat.
I know, to each his own, but I really can't get with a spike. Probably just a skill I will develop some day .

Originally Posted by rolodave

The United States Post Office is off the hook. They did not missplace my hone.

The box was never mailed!

So, Best Sharpening Stone is Express Mailing it and I should receive the hone Monday or Tuesday. They are also refunding my shipping charges. Pretty decent of them.

You would think for a $130 USD hone FedEx or UPS would have been a more secure shipper.

Dave

I'm considering doing all my business with Japanese services.

Originally Posted by Hart

....and one 7/8, spike point (yuck!) I'da liked yer post but fer dat.
I know, to each his own, but I really can't get with a spike. Probably just a skill I will develop some day .

Yes, it is interesting, I don't mind barber's notched razors, can live with them, but pretty much try to avoid round tipped blades completely, yet for some reason the spike points really work for me, like the way they shave and handle, and they just look great to me. Also, I pretty much prefer 7/8 now and above, but I have some 4/8, 5/8, and 6/8 and they're all great blades.

But yea, I really go for the spike points, it's really hard to find the types of blades I like with that kind of tip...but the searching is fun! And it's all great I guess, until I decide what next to explore.

Cheers!

Genco Easy Aces with cracked ice scales. Should be here Tuesday.

Nice. There are a couple of Gencos at one if the antique stores I shop at but they have broken blades. Doesn't it suck when you think you found something good and you open it up to find a HUGE chunk of blade missing?

Nakyama Koppa, Tomo Nagura, Mijiro Nagura

Originally Posted by tedh75

Nice. There are a couple of Gencos at one if the antique stores I shop at but they have broken blades. Doesn't it suck when you think you found something good and you open it up to find a HUGE chunk of blade missing?

Goes like this: find a razor or box in a locked case (they always are, okay i get that) so you find a clerk to unlock the case and hand you the "razor" which you open and find a shattered, broken, rusted away, etc. basically nothing but scales--which would be fine if they were nice scales, but they never are. Been through that exact scenario at least 30 times.