Thread: Oh happy day - oh lucky day!

I already posted this over @TSD but I alo wanted to share my haul with you guys

Guys and ladies, today I was unbelievably lucky. I was walking a shopping street in Passau (Bavaria), where I study, to get some Belgian chocolate for a friend and his wife who I'm gonna visit tomorrow. Next to the chocolate-store there was an old scissors and knives-shop that had closed down at the end of last year and I've never had a chance to shop there. It was OPEN for yesterday and today as the new owners were selling everything - old stock, furniture, machinery - everything! So I went in and asked for straight razors. They didn't have any so I was about to leave when they told me to have a look around the house. I had time, so that's what I did. I entered the workshop and was set back in time. There was sharpening machinery that looked like it was 150 years old at least. Big grinding stones, small buffing machines - everything. All the stuff had been turned upside down already, but then I saw a glimpse of what looked like razor-scales. Sure enough, a pair of scales it was. I began to search through the junk and found loads and loads of scales - some even still wrapped in paper! Then I found some benchstones and hones, but they were too coarse for my taste. I even found a big, old sharpening-machine like a Tormek but the fine stone rotated horizontally - wonderful. If I only could have taken it with me... I still have their number, maybe I'll give them a call and go get the machine. It'd really be wonderful for grinding out bigger chips or the sharpening of chisels and the likes...
Then I found NEW Henckels Friodur knife-blanks, well, basically finished knives but without the handles. Still wrapped in their plastic-holders. I took all 20 or so I could find. Maybe I can use them to make some custom knives some time in the future. As I was just about to leave I tripped over a box. I took a look at its contents. Coarse hones, again. Then one caught my attention, it looked to be really fine, but the light was bad. I took it with me anyway.
Back in the store I also took an old presentation-display-doohickey by Henckels with me, paid and left. No, I'm not gonna tell you how much I paid. But let me tell you so much: I didn't have much money on me as I only planned on purchasing chocolate

Back home I took a good look at what I had purchased. I even found razor pins and quite a few domed razor-washers, scales by Tennis and Dovo, wooden ones, plastic ones, horn ones, tortoise ones (most likely faux tortoise, but who cares), handles for knives and DE-blades. Then I cleaned up the big 26x5x2.5cm hone. After cleaning it looked yellow-greenish and gave a green-white slurry that smelled of chalk. The scope confirmed my suspicions: It's a yellow-green thuringian hone and a mighty fine one too.

Dang, I feel like a kid on christmas, easter and birthday combined

And of course you are goig to share! Man, go back there a buy all the equipment you can.

Hey wow that looks like fun!

WOW, nice haul!

*edit* Just noticed that's post #100 - tipple digits, I mean triple digits, whoohoo!

Senior Membor now! Congratulations old man!

Originally Posted by clrobert60

WOW, nice haul!

*edit* Just noticed that's post #100 - tipple digits, I mean triple digits, whoohoo!

Hmmmmm, any chance of sharing a set of horn scales for a guy restoring an old Boker unrivaled? Maybe a few folks here in need of scales would be happy to reimburse you the mysterious but apparently tiny amount spent on this lovely haul.

Congratulations on the haul!

sounds to me like little randy....

Thanks very much, guys!

@foundlingofdollar: I can't say for sure but I think there are only two sets of horn-scales in there and they're for 4/8ths. I'll have a look, okay? Maybe you could shoot me a pm with the exact measurements you need?

Well, actually I didn't plan on putting them up for sale. That's not because I'm selfish, but because I do restorations for quite a few guys and working with straights you're always in need of scales. So, eventually, these scales would end up with other people anyway, be it when they send me blades alone or have me rescale one of their old razors or antique-store-finds.