Thread: My first W&B Celebrated

That's not a real address. You're missing a street name, number to correspond to your exact location and a zip code. That blade will never make it to you without those proper pieces of information. You should not be on this forum unsupervised. Grab the nearest adult and proceed.

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

I'm sorry to tell you that it's junk. Please ship it to "MapleLeafAlumnus, Lake Michigan, Michigan,..." for proper disposal (which involves a large bonfire, a keg of Kokanee, and esoteric incantations whilst Hooter's girls toss hot wings at my feet).

Originally Posted by cheetahmeatpheonix

That's not a real address. You're missing a street name, number to correspond to your exact location and a zip code. That blade will never make it to you without those proper pieces of information. You should not be on this forum unsupervised. Grab the nearest adult and proceed.

EVERYBODY in Lake Michigan knows him.

( Few will admit it openly though )

Handsome blade there! Let us know how it shaves ... And how Lake Michigan was.

Originally Posted by Scookum

Its mint, never been honed and as of right now I don't honestly know what to do with her...

Ah! And there lies the conundrum. Much of the value is in the NOS unhoned state for a desireable razor of that age and status! It's only NOS once!!! I couldn't hone and use it and I can't actually tell you why, except, you'll have razors that will shave as well as this one, but you'll never have one in the NOS state of this one. The following is my dilemma. Couldn't get images to load from the archive with my IPad so here's a link to the razor, post #26. http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...-models-3.html

Regards,
Howard

Originally Posted by SirStropalot

Ah! And there lies the conundrum. Much of the value is in the NOS unhoned state for a desireable razor of that age and status! It's only NOS once!!!

So it belongs in the Razor Museum (like Toy Story 3's "Toy Museum"), instead of being used as intended?

I suppose it's no different from uncirculated coins, or toys "new in box". An interesting problem.

Charles

Oh you must give her a go. Nothing wrong with being the first. I was the first once. Oh wait no I wasen't. That no good dirty W%&#e

Just tape the spine. "touch up" the factory edge. Shave with it! Who would know? 110 years from now, someone will call it NOS!
It might have already been done for all we know!

Very nice! How did you aqquire it? As much as I would be tempted to use it, ''SirStropalot'' makes a valid point.

This is JMHO but, if you're gonna have a blade like that sitting around you may as well use it and enjoy it. I have a or I guess had a NOS Filarmonica EPBD that I use in my rotation...I'll be darned if I'm gonna let a nice blade like that just sit there and look at it The amount of steel you'll remove in a lifetime of honing isn't gonna make that much of a difference.

Here is one I had. I could swear it had not been honed a bit. I taped the spine and it surely did not take much to have it splitting hairs. They did not have tape to use back then and some were less than stellar honemeisters.
The ones we restore which have been honed and used a lot are sometimes buggers to get going.
Ones which are as-new are easy!