So before I had admitted my newfound RAD and posted about it, from which I was given some wonderful insight, a good bit of wise counsel, a modicum of restraint, and heaping helpings of urging to throw caution to the wind... I had accidentally clicked buy now on an eBay auction since I found out that S 1 matches January 1972
So someone on eBay, saw me coming, and managed to get me to part with $19 for a black handled TTO S2...it arrived today. I had fun cleaning it up with autosol and mentholated spirits...dont have the magic bubbles that ya'll have over there....silly me, forgot to take a before pic, suffice to say, I have it much shinier, without any soap build up.
Now I need to practice restraint and not look at eBay any more until I have actually learned something about these vintage razors, and I think I'd really like to explore the ones from the UK.
I guess I need to resist the urge to put a blade in this birth year razor until I am a bit more comfortable with my 34C, so I can actually make some reasonable comparisons
BUT..it's fun to now own two DE's, and one of them being the same age as me.
I realise it's nothing startling, but it was fun to clean it up and now have a collection of two.
So someone on eBay, saw me coming, and managed to get me to part with $19 for a black handled TTO S2...it arrived today. I had fun cleaning it up with autosol and mentholated spirits...dont have the magic bubbles that ya'll have over there....silly me, forgot to take a before pic, suffice to say, I have it much shinier, without any soap build up.
Now I need to practice restraint and not look at eBay any more until I have actually learned something about these vintage razors, and I think I'd really like to explore the ones from the UK.
I guess I need to resist the urge to put a blade in this birth year razor until I am a bit more comfortable with my 34C, so I can actually make some reasonable comparisons
BUT..it's fun to now own two DE's, and one of them being the same age as me.
I realise it's nothing startling, but it was fun to clean it up and now have a collection of two.
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