Thread: My Mastro Livi razor, at last: a wonderful life experience!

Well gentlemen, I am going to do it again. Tomorrow I am going to Mastro's workshop and I will watch him making my new Mastro Livi razor. I ordered a new one and tomorrow it is going to be a new great day. Of course, I will bring my camera with me and I will shoot a video of the making which I will post, sooner or later, in my Youtube channel.
I guess I will post pictures of my new mastro Livi soon. Very soon. Stay in touch!

Nice! Looking forward to seeing it.

Another wonderful day to treasure in my heart. Not only because I spent another full day in company of Mastro Livi, a remarkable experience for any straight razor lover, a day in which I learned so many things about steel, straight razors, honing, stropping and watched the genesis of a straight razor. My straight razor. My new Mastro Livi razor.
After a full day during which I could see how Mastro can make a remarkable masterpiece of art from a bare steel bar and a tiny piece of wood, tonight I had the honor to receive from Mastro Livi's hands the razor I ordered to him.
Like all the previous razors I ordered to him, it has been an unforgettable experience and Mastro Livi has been very kind and open to my requests about how I wanted my new straight razor, of course, under his valuable and authoritative guidance.
I wanted my new Mastro Livi to have a strong Umbrian mark, Umbria is the region where both Mastro Livi and I live in, therefore I wanted the scales of my new razors to be made in olive tree wood, the main and most common tree of our wonderful and beautiful Umbrian hills.
As for the rest, everything is Umbrian in this razor, except the steel which is the only element not truly made in Umbria but however tempered and ground in my region. I will call this "the Umbrian Mastro Livi razor".
I am going, as usual, to post some pictures of this new razor and, as a matter of fact, here it is my new Mastro Livi straight razor specifications:

• Blade made of RWL34 stainless steel
• 15/16 Full Hollow Ground (Mastro Livi is one of the few capable of such handmade grinding, as all of you surely know)
• Spanish point
• Olive tree wood scales

As for the steel, I wanted Mastro Livi to choose the steel he believed to be the best for the razor I ordered. He can choose among quite a good number of different steels - carbon, stainless, carbon damascus and stainless damascus - and he opted for a RWL34. I am sure he made the very best choice possible. I trust him so I am sure I will not be disappointed by his very good advice.
Of course, I brought my camera with me and shoot a video of the making of my new razor which I will post as soon as I am done editing. Hopefully very soon. I can however tell you gentlemen something in advance: during the final test - you know Mastro Livi personally tests all of his razors by shaving - I filmed Mastro Livi while he shaved himself with my new razor, from lathering to aftershave. I guess this is the very first time we can see Mastro Livi using a straight razor in a regular shaving session.
During the day I personally listened to Mastro Livi answering the phone and receiving calls from his clients who personally wanted to thank him for the quality of his razors; they all seemed to be very happy, I would add, elated, for having been shaved with one of Mastro's razors. Moreover, in the morning he also received the visit of a gentlemen and his son who came to visit Mastro Livi and ordered a razor. I can tell, Mastro Livi is very loved by straight razor lovers and as soon as they try one of his razors, they consider the experience to be the very best. Including me, of course.
Just let me point out the kindness, openness and availability of Mastro Livi, always welcoming people and clients to his workshop, always giving good advices and teaching how to strop and hone a razor, scissors or a knife. For anyone interested in this, Mastro Livi explicitly invites anyone who wants to order a razor to come to his workshop, spend a full day with him while watching the Mastro making the razor. And this is something I too would suggest: I did this three times now and each day of them has been an unforgettable and remarkable experience.
As for my new razor, I hope you will enjoy the pictures of it: tomorrow is going to be a magnificent day with a magnificent shave, that's for sure!

The box. As you can see this is a different box with a lovely plexiglass opening from which it is possible to see the razor inside.

Opening the box: here it is the Umbrian Mastro Livi Razor

Unfolding the beauty: I wanted the blade to have a mirror polishing

I wanted the spine to have an elegant filework

Full Hollow Ground

Mastro Livi hand signature on the tang

Mastro Livi hand signature on scales. Olive tree wood scales, of course