Thread: I´ve completely failed

Well I started out with the notion that the fusion razor gear was simply too expensive... I´ve bickered about that for quite some times. And one night a
I scooted around on the net and found an article about straight razors.... in the lines of: A razor for life, with no more expenses on razor gear. (shave cream excluded off course).

Nice, I thought a way to cut away some expenses...I then found this place and thought: Yeah why not?

Well I ashamed to say I didn`t save a dime....just the opposite...i didn't start out that long ago, and by now i´ve allready used more money on shaving gear in a couple of months than i´ve would´ve spend in a couple of years....who would have thought shaving could be so much fun???

i´ve read some books and I now enjoy both shaving with straight and DE-razors (although by now I can only achieve near BBS with the DE). I have now tossed the gillete fusion completely to curb as I dont need it for touch-ups and finishing anymore.

I even went as far as aquiring some razors from a fleamarket, to see if I can get them going sometimes down the road... I´m well aware that I wont put those to my face in any near future, not only because I need to learn to shave properly first but I cant hone yet, and probably wont start buy a honong stone just yet.... but its really fun and kinda meditative to polish up a blade and make new scales.... for now i have done that with only one (finished today)... but i plan to start on another in the next couple of day

Nowhere near perfect, but I´m kinda happy with the result

It is not just shaving, it is a hobby as well. Sticking with vintage it is cheaper than some of my other hobbies.
Looks great.... now on to honing.

You mean that this is your first pair of scales? They look great!

yes these are my first pair of....well everything thank you for the kind words.... I´ve watched a lot of youtube videos on restoring and scale making

Looks like you did a GREAT job on the restore and scales!

I was confused by the title, I sure don't see any failure in those scales you just made. They look very good on that classy blade. You may have failed to save a ton of money but sounds like you gained a ton of fun. That is the kind of failure I can and do live with. Welcome to the club.

Bob

Looks great

nice, good work. you have made nice scales imo! A good start en get better and better thumbs up mate

LOL Bob, the title was more like a comic irony, yeah i failed to save money(wich was the original plan with this) , but gained something i find truly fantastic. so i kinda failed and won on the same time.

I had the some problem with saving money. When I first decided to pick up straight shaving, I was really hoping to save money. I was going to buy only one vintage razor (at least for the next year or longer), one strop, use the cheap boar brush I started with, and always use cheap to medium priced soaps and creams.
Needless to say, the AD's took over and I went from around $90 (which I thought was very good compared to what most people spend) for a decent quality strop and Genco Head Barber 5/8, to now having spent several hundred dollars on everything from a badger brush (swore I would never drop the $$ for) to expensive shaving creams and soaps (also swore not to drop the cash for). However, I can honestly say this new hobby is my favorite!

"May the Straights of Heaven open up and lead you to tranquility."