Thread: Round point--->French point!

Nice, one of those deals like the old intro to Wide World Of Sports, if you're old enough to remember it. "The thrill of victory, or the agony of defeat." In this case it is the thrill of victory .......

Super nice job, I think it looks great...like you, I despise round points, prefer spikes, but I'm an ABRP razor guy....Anything But Round Points.....

And Ed....excellent, you had me.... with that one...super rare indeed! Ha!

Nice job on the regrind. I have a leDandy that I may do the same to, for the same reasons. Only difference is I will be calling it an Irish Point
Round nose razors are my least used as well. If you have a 'stache, or ears, they are less easy to trim accurately with, to me.
And thanks for the memory on the old WWS reference Jimmy. Wonder how old that poor fella that wiped out on the ski jump is, and if he ever lived down that notoriety..

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Only difference is I will be calling it an Irish Point

I too prefer Irish point (paying tribute to my heritage) but some folks look at you funny when you say Irish point...

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Nice, one of those deals like the old intro to Wide World Of Sports, if you're old enough to remember it. "The thrill of victory, or the agony of defeat." In this case it is the thrill of victory .......

Ah, Jim McKay...I remember as a kid seeing WWS coming on Saturday afternoon and being like "Please God let it not be tennis or golf". If a kid was real lucky, Evil Knivel was jumping something...

I wished I could do that because I have a lot of round points that I would really like better to be a French or square point. Nice job!

Originally Posted by entropy1049

I too prefer Irish point (paying tribute to my heritage) but some folks look at you funny when you say Irish point...

I wouldn't laugh at you, my family emigrated to Canada from England and settled here just after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, and I have mostly English but also a good helping of Irish and a smattering of Scottish in me as well, so you can imagine the inner turmoil raging inside my head!

RAD for me is the Irish yearning for more, more, more, the Scottish screaming, "Not one more penny for another razor", and the English aspect just shaking it's head at both of us in utter and complete disdain.

Phrank, my Cardinal, you do realize the virtue of having a tri-part personality? One major advantage is being able to win any argument with yourself with just a small emphasis on any of the three heritages. Another is being able to confuse anyone that is trying to tie you down to one set of culture traits. Nothing confuses the "I know better than you" types than ambiguity and the slyness involved. I would imagine that this is where the Chaos theory was first developed (please note that I have no scientific background whatsoever.)

Originally Posted by Phrank

...RAD for me is the Irish yearning for more, more, more, the Scottish screaming, "Not one more penny for another razor", and the English aspect just shaking it's head at both of us in utter and complete disdain.

Brilliant! I did have an Irish grandfather married to a Scottish grandmother. To be a fly on the wall...

Originally Posted by entropy1049

Brilliant! I did have an Irish grandfather married to a Scottish grandmother. To be a fly on the wall...

LOL - yup, Grandfather Urquart and Grandmother Mcguire on one side, and the pure English on the other side, or "the peasants" as they were referred to often, or, "those people". "Lock the liquor cabinet" was a frequent exclamation as well as, "Hide the dustbin, the Scotsman's coming over...!"

All good fun....