The Haul: December 2014

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Replated 1949 Milord Razor

 

Mikes Natural Soap-Barber shop!

 

Do post a report on how it performs, curious minds want to know

 

+1

 

Great looking razor!

 

I wonder what's up with the duck =P

How is the smell?

 

One of my favorites.

 

I love Mike's Natural Soaps. They are super lathering, thirsty soaps with outstanding moisturizing.

 

I found this very nice GEM Micromatic Bullet Tip razor today in a local antique mall. It had the original box, directions, and two Treet blades.

I have my own directions now. I have seen them online, but now I have the real thing.

 

Friends, here now my Christmas gifts:

French "Olyfa" Razor:








Parker 97R:
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"Jürgen Hempel" Handle






I have to say, i really like the handle of the Parker. Good grip and a good weight to it. The Jürgen Hempel handle is fantastic too. A real heavyweight. I think this one fits nice with many heads.

Greetings
Thorsten​

 

Very nice handle on the Olyfa!
Never seen it before, how's the weight?

 

Let me know how you like the Ladas.

 

Best Christmas ever.

 

Banjo Hangout Players Union Membership! XD

 

I just tried a Ladas this week. It was really nice...if I wasn't sitting on a stash of GSB and Voskhod I could easily justify a bulk Ladas order. Good blades!

 

Shaved with it today. Very nice blades. I find I really like the Russian blades.

I'm trying to buy some before you hoard them all.

 

Plisson arrived yesterday from backorder. (H/t @Darkbulb) Plisson is going into usage today.

The newly released all-comb razor from a vendor in AZ also landed (and going in the proverbial vault) and looks really really cool...but I got 30 days with a Slim Adjustable for January (super pumped about this!)..sometimes I buy razors with no immediate plans or logical reason at all. It was so unique, I wanted it as an option for the future, so not much else to add until I start to use it...that may be this summer until I get back to it. But it looks really cool. I feel fine about the price, it was shipped and delivered in a very reasonable time frame.

I am mostly done acquiring razor stuff for the time being. It's time to master all the tools I currently have. 2015 is gonna be a series of 30 day rules and mastering Dad's injector, a Cadet TTO that I have had unused in the vault, and actually deciding boar/badger/synthetic and their best uses for me. I also have soaps in the vault on queue. All that and working my way through the handful of vintage items sitting in the vault and hopefully finding a couple of good restoration candidates. I am working on a plan to do all this in 2015...