Due to currently being unemployed, the only mail, I receive, are bills, which I can't pay
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Due to currently being unemployed, the only mail, I receive, are bills, which I can't pay
Thanks my friend! Funny you mentioned Davy Jones, as a GB has been a White Whale of mine for awhile. Really looking forward to this baby arriving and taking it for a test drive...mystical shave sounds awesome! Am thinking I'll now wait until the GB arrives and use it to give my newest Westholme its inaugural strop...epic razor on an epic strop! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
Tis a thing of beauty semper fi..
Big, battle scarred, and beautiful. Wears its years well ,
Old Greaves smooth, thankfully,, I get what ya mean phrank, used mine on New Year’s Day for a third interview on the 2nd. Still so smooth on day 2 I skipped another shave and nailed the interview.
(I think).
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Mike, congrats and good luck on your 3rd interview! :gl:
Got a vintage Giesen & Forstoff Timor coming in the mail. Hopefully in the next day or two.
No photos yet but this is from the seller
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Bob
Maggard 26mm Synthetic brush, Wholly Kaw Project Leather
Just got an email from Lee, new M&F brush on the way....Coral coloured Emilion handle, 24mm of Blonde Badger coming my way.....:D
Wow - that is a gorgeous razor Bob, sheesh, when you pick a new one, you get 'em super nice...and a vintage G&F, rare NOS find from a legendary maker in the day....;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
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Originally Posted by Dieseld
Just the tax payment's, Oh you mean shaving related!!! LOL Just picked up an alum block and a new pad of herbal shaving soap.
Unless it gets lost in a snow storm I should have this before the week is out!
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Half dozen fragrance decants of scents that I've wanted to try for a while but are too expensive to blind buy
A little while back I sent a friend on here some wood chunks he needed for making scales. I had several varieties of wood, but they were chunks of boards, not thin slabs for scales. So, best I could do was chunks as I don't have a proper saw for cutting them into slabs. I explained to him that, up until now when I make wood scales, I've been doing all the cuts on these chunks, even rip cuts, with hand saws. Big PITA is what it was.
Well he said to send him some more chunks and he'd cut them up into slabs for me and send 'em back. I said, "Great!" but only if he kept enough to make it worth his while. They came in the mail yesterday and they're perfect. Thanks, Jerry, you're a heck of a guy! :rock:
Here's a few, I think we have rosewood, paduk, lacewood, ebony, tigerwood, and morado. There were some other kinds too.
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my first 12000...
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I currently have one dubl duck wedge, an a C. S. Bresnick red triangle.
One I’ve never heard of on the way from the bay.
A William Revitt Damascus steel razor, as per what’s left of the tang stamp.
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Hard to tell if it’s pitted all to shame, patina, or if it’s the Damascus patterning I’m looking at.
$35 CDN, maybe I just bought some off colour scales, har.
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On it's way. Can't wait to put this beauty to use!!
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Finally in country; my microscope. On the West coast and expected soonish!?!?!? Ordered December 2 2017
~Richard
Results when i find out how, or not, it works:shrug:
Screen built in seems like a neat idea!
I'd like to get a Geo. Brittain some day. What is the profile? Near wedge? Quarter hollow? I've never handled one, but they all seem to be the same profile and width of 1 13/16 inch. I just had a custom-made one that is 21/16" and 3.25" long by Bruno. He says it's a monster. Nice find, man. Can you private message me and tell me how much this one cost you? Thanks.
If the moon's align I will have a Tally Ho wedge coming my way!
In the mail nothing!! But l am hoping to make a trip out to see Lynn soon!
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The moon's did align, Tally Ho headed to me:D so giddy
I've got a little horse butt landing today--seller's pic
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Glad you got that, Roy! A great deal, I think! :tu
I’m glad too. I saw that one and was starting to get the shakes.
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Originally Posted by RezDog
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We do expect a full review on that Roy :tu
My newly acquired local apprentice is coming over again on Wednesday to for some more one on one time and I'll give the horse ass uh---I mean 'butt' a go then and let you all know how I like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dieseld
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Got this Bengall coming my way, little rusty on top, but otherwise in decent condition, just need a little love
I've heard they make for really good shavers
Waiting for two brushes to arrive
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I am as well waiting for two brushes to arrive. :)
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Some great looking brushes there gents :tu
Well while my apprentice didn't need a shave we had some fun! I'd taken an old 3" SRD English Bridle strop that I'd chewed up a bit and cut it down to 2.5"s and put it in with a vintage 2.5" cloth strop and he got to practice his stropping a bit on a larger strop/the Mike Horn's strop was a 2" strop.Quote:
Originally Posted by cudarunner
After he'd left I used my newly acquired horse butt strop on a 6/8 Friodur and I'm very pleased with the strop. :tu
Kinda reminds me if celiloid rot, might want to be careful getting that around other razors. TcQuote:
Originally Posted by TristanLudlow
I concur my friend! I'd get rid of those scales and Pronto!Quote:
Originally Posted by tcrideshd
[QUOTE=Navarrsky;1800526]I am as well waiting for two brushes to arrive. :)
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Beautiful brushes, Dmitri, although it's beyond me how you do it. Congratulations.
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Originally Posted by TristanLudlow
If I might, I'd like to offer another view on the matter. Keep, or toss the scales, that is your choice. Perhaps it was stored in a confined space with razors that DID have celluloid scales, but this razor does NOT have celluloid scales.Quote:
Originally Posted by tcrideshd
My reasoning: if these scales were celluloid, wouldn't the cellrot be more concentrated where the scales cover the blade? This blade has rust in an opposite manner; there is virtually no rust where the scales cover it.
Could be that way, it is turned opposite than normal, but it does have a distinct pattern , maybe up next to cell rot, in any case I'd still be careful. Tc
I lean towards Crawlers thoughts but agree with Tc that it is important to always be careful.
