I am becomming intrigued with several people's perspective of "make them my own".

I don't say it is worng - but I do ask why? I completely understand when a razor in in foul condition that you pretty much have to. But why new scales for the sake of making them your own. I'm having a hard time understanding that.

But on the other hand, it might be related to my personal perspective that my razors are on loan to me from history and that is one of the reasons I try and keep them as vintage as possible.

And I understand the perspective of ownership some have. If anybody bought a Filarmonica off of e-bay lately you can understand why the "hell, I own it" feeling