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For Father's day we emptied the vault, cleaned and re-organised the collection. A took several hours. I think we may have missed one or two. What is shown is 330 razors grouped by country of origin and make. All razors are shave ready. Sorry, none are for sale or trade. Hope you enjoy the razor porn.
WOW you sure know how to make someone envious.
It's obvious that some members of this forum have a problem.
They don't have enough razors!
With all the hours that you, Carrie & Joe Jr. put in searching for them, I'm not surprised to see such an impressive collection! Both in size, & quality, absolutely outstanding Joe.:bow
My dear Joed:
Your impressive collection is worthy of the gentleman that you are.
Regards,
Obie
That is amazing! thanks for sharing, I can stare into those pictures and find something new every time I looked. :beer1:
Joe, would you and Karen consider adopting me. :shrug:
Me first I don't take much room that is a cool collection I can see that in my future as gerrit gets goingQuote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
My oh my!
That is excactly ten times more razors than I have..
Looks like a wonderful collection!
Thanks for sharing, and for firing up my RAD to yet another level:)
This is why you moderate the 'Razors' forum, Joe: You're the only one of us who has ever had one of each!
Just 35 more and you have a 12-month set....
...then go for the Decade!
Oh I thought you were joking when you said you were going to rearrange the collection again.
Hey Joe, what's that one in the yellowish scales? :-)
HOLY COW (and all other animals that roam this earth). I don;t know what to say.
What a collection. IMPRESSIVE!!!!:dropjaw::dropjaw:
Do you have insurance in case of theft, fire, flood etc... (God forbid)? This is bound to be in the $10K or more range.
Joe, in all seriousness, insure these things...PLEASE!!
And, don't forget, add me in your will :roflmao.
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Originally Posted by Joed
Which row and how many down, he can probably tell you what is is lolQuote:
Originally Posted by holli4pirating
Anytime Jimmy, just bring along your hones :)Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
best porn ever !!!!!
WOW!
That is an impressive collection!
Enjoy them all!
Lu
Thank you all for your kind words. In reality I am just the custodian for this collection. They really belong to Jr and CarrieM. When Jr first started shaving I remembered how significant it was to me and wanted to find a way for father and son to bond closer. Shaving has provided that to us and I am thankful to Lynn and all the members of SRD for making this site available to us and passing along their priceless experience with straight razors. As most of you know the acceptance of our spouses and significant others is important when a collection reaches a certain size. CarrieM has been behind me in this sport and encouraged me to buy my first hone and restoration equipment. Heck, she even learned how to make hone made shave cream that many of us now enjoy. All my lpve and special thanks to CarrieM!
Holli, It's a Black Diamond out of Solingen Germany.
Robert, The razors really do reside in a vault but thank you for your concern. While I have made razor purchases of a significant price most were had for a lot less then average. Over 2/3's were purchased in local shops. Sorry to all of you that have been looking around here. LOL
Ben, I really don't have one of everything. That is why I always need just one more! LOL I am hoping that after the next 35 I can chill out but I know it is just a dream. I've been trying to shave with each razor once a year but it is very hard. I really have to stop bring in new ones that I haven't shaved with yet.
Ben.Mid, Thank you for noticing. It does take a lot of time to find worthy razors locally and add in the honing and restoring it adds up quickly. I am a very lucky man to have CarrieM and Jr to share this experience with and we really do have a good time on the hunt and hunting together.
Cheers to all and best regards,
Joe
Wow. That is a truly impressive collection. Congratulations. If you run short on storage space, I have some extra room. I'd be more than happy to help you out.:rofl2:
That's just sick. :D
My one razor and I feel very insignificant right now.
Now I have pictures to show my parents when they start giving me crap about spending money on razors and equipment; proof that I could be worse. :D
Wow, that is quite a collection!
Every collection starts with the first one and for straight shaves one is all that is needed. The purpose of my collection is to pass it on to my son. Good luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stylus
Looks great Joe. Thanks for posting.
Yes Daddy, tell them not to touch my razors, lol. Thatīs a very nice collection sir, actually itīs a monster of a collection!Quote:
Originally Posted by Joed
Joe and CarrieM, I knew that you had quite a collection, and was not surprised to see so many beautiful examples of the razor cutlers art. Thank you for sharing such a nice and almost fully comprehensive vision with us! What really stood out for me was your small comment "and all shave ready". I know exactly how much was left out in this modest statement, about the thousands of hours of cleaning, polishing, straightening, tightening and honing that you and Carrie put into this labor of love. And to prepare them for these photographs must have taken at least 2 days. I wish I had kept all my boxes with the razors in my collection, as you have...they are listed on an Excel spreadsheet and bagged by manufacturer. Hell to find sometimes, too! Thank you again for these photos, and for being such a help to others on the forum.
This explains both why I cant fine any decent razors in the antique shops of NY, and why they have become so expensive!
The law of supply and demand decreas ITS ALL JOES FAULT!
Just throw all of them up for sale, and you can single handedly bring the high price of st8s back to the 10 dollar Phily range.
Dont you know hoarding is a sickness? Really now, let me help you get better We all care about you and want whats best from you... I mean best FOR you...:w
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Originally Posted by Croaker
Thank you for your kind words and for realizing the effort we put into them. Jr is 15 now and has been honing along side me for a while now. The cleaning, polishing, honing, rescaling and other restoration work is a family effort. We all have fun with the work and are pleased with the results. It's GREAT to have a hobby we all enjoy and work on together.
Many of the razor boxes are not with our razors. The boxes that were falling apart or were dirty beyond a simple cleaning are stored separably. The only boxes that are stored with the razors are the ones I am pretty sure don't have anything growing in them. LOL
Carrie and I were discussing your post here on the way hone from work this evening. Carrie said it took us ~ 4 hours to unpack, inspect, clean and repack them. The three of us were working on them together. The razors were mostly stored in rolls or their boxes so it was just a matter of grouping the new purchases with the razors already sorted last year. Now the trick is going to be to find the ones I haven't shaves with yet and get back in my shaving rotation. :boohoo:
Joed forgot to tell you that was his travel kit!!!!!!!!! Now thats something!
Whoa! That collection is really something! I take my hat off to you and your family for not merely buying them but cleaning/restoring/honing them. That is where the real work come in. Any time your bored, you can start working on my accumulation!:)
Very nicely done,:tu
NICE :)
Makes me want to get all mine out and sort them into groups, getting them a bit more organized. I'm just now getting to the point that I really need to find a serious storage ability and space for them...