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

Originally Posted by MrZ

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Expected to come in Thursday. Not sure of the condition, but the price was manageable. Buerger Bros. Supply Co., Denver, Colorado. Leather marked "Imported / Walnut shell / Special Tan". "Solid Woven Genuine Silk Finish" on the canvas.

Strop came in the mail Friday and sadly the leather one was cut up pretty good. It looked like someone tried to slide down it sharp end first. Tried to sand the nicks down, but had only marginal success. Seems like a wall hanger. The good news is that the canvas cleaned up and the hardware polished well. So I used the parts to build another strop. All good, though I will keep looking for a pretty strop that I can actually use........ cheap.

This landed earlier today.

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I put a few drops of Kroil on the pins and let them soak for an hour or so.

The wedge pin came out nice and easy, but the pivot----------------------

More Kroil, more soak time then back to tap tap tap but I did break the back scale.



Do ya think the pivot pin was bent?



The toe just had the small washers (one went flying when the drill bit freed it. However the pivot had those big washers under the small ones. Never seen that. But there again I haven't handled that many razors. The only time I've seen washers under washers is on the old bullseye/beehive brass one.

I'd already planned on making new scales and put some giraffe bone in some light mineral oil under vacuum yesterday and they are about done.

Thanks for looking.

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I was going through the pieces and found something strange. The pin at the toe is brass, but the pin at the pivot is iron as it jumps right up to the magnet as do those large washers.

I'm thinking some kind of a re-scale But the iron pin at the pivot? With matching small washer that don't cover the large steel under washers

I just got a yellow Shrade USA New Old Stock. It’s a three blade stockman that Shrade had discontinued sometime before they went out of business. I look for Shrade knives and others made by Shrade Old Timers and Uncle Henry’s. I also love Case knives especially those with stag handles. I have about a dozen Remington’s made in USA. I especially like the Remington’s that are High Carbon Steel. Bart young men don’t carry a pocket knife. Men of my generation and older getting their first pocket knife was a right of passage. When I was nine years old I got my first Pocket knife, a Shrade medium trapper, and a cowboy suit. Nowadays I like a small knife, two or three blades that’s about 2 3/4 inches closed. Like a case peanut or an Old Timer Mini Stockman, or a 9502 Remington. Your razor shipped today. I included a little present I think you’ll like.

Originally Posted by Legman

I just got a yellow Shrade USA New Old Stock. It’s a three blade stockman that Shrade had discontinued sometime before they went out of business. I look for Shrade knives and others made by Shrade Old Timers and Uncle Henry’s. I also love Case knives especially those with stag handles. I have about a dozen Remington’s made in USA. I especially like the Remington’s that are High Carbon Steel. Bart young men don’t carry a pocket knife. Men of my generation and older getting their first pocket knife was a right of passage. When I was nine years old I got my first Pocket knife, a Shrade medium trapper, and a cowboy suit. Nowadays I like a small knife, two or three blades that’s about 2 3/4 inches closed. Like a case peanut or an Old Timer Mini Stockman, or a 9502 Remington. Your razor shipped today. I included a little present I think you’ll like.

Soooo, I have some pocket knives in the mail. But I am stopping now lest my old lady runs me ass off!

Have 2 of the big 125ml bottles of L'instant de Guerlain in the discontinued bottles.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

NOTE:

I was going through the pieces and found something strange. The pin at the toe is brass, but the pin at the pivot is iron as it jumps right up to the magnet as do those large washers.

I'm thinking some kind of a re-scale But the iron pin at the pivot? With matching small washer that don't cover the large steel under washers

The few oldies I have owned and renewed had iron or brass pins in both locations of the razor pins. The really old or what must have been cheaper ones had a pin that looked almost square. My thought is that they were clipped off with a hand held cutter and then peined with out a file stoke to flatten them first.
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~Richard

I picked up this little brush handle for dirt cheep, shipped. Going to see about putting a Boss or Tuxedo knot in it when i get my knots. Got another small brush handle coming too.



Its hollow plastic so i will fill it with whatever i can find to add a little weight to it but its not going to be very heavy as it is small. Maybe some lead cut to size then filled with epoxy.

I don’t like small brush handles because I am very sloppy when loading the brush or lathering and it gets all over my hands. For those that use them I say bravo, but I really embrace the WET shaving.

Waiting on an El Roo strop from Gabe. Should arrive in about two weeks. Will then do a rare, for me, SOTD to show it off.

I just pulled the trigger on a Naniwa Traditional 1,000 Stone from Chef Knives To Go.

A special hat-tip to Lynn Abrams, for his excellent YouTube video on "Setting a Bevel Using a Naniwa Traditional 1K Stone" -- watching it "sealed the deal" for me!