Well, I bought my kit, but then discovered I had omitted any sort of shaving stand. Rather than leave things flopping about the counter, at my wife's insistence I decided to acquire a shaving stand to keep blade and brush off the counter and also partially corral my burgeoning array of shaving junk.
Of course, I'm also a fantastically cheap bastard, so rather than spending $10-$100 on a nice chrome or pewter shaving stand, I went to my local home improvement emporium for the ultimate prototype building material: pvc.
This also has the added benefit of being immune to water spots (well, not immune to the spots, but immune to caring about them)--we have very hard water (after one shave my Merkur HD is already hazy and dull) and I'd hate to spend actual money on a shaving stand and have it get icky from hard water deposits.
So, without further ado, I present the ultimate in declasse shaving kit: the $5 PVC shaving stand. See my silly howto at Instructables (probably the only DIY guide containing the phrase "distraught pink-cheeked badger-pamperers"!)
Vic
Of course, I'm also a fantastically cheap bastard, so rather than spending $10-$100 on a nice chrome or pewter shaving stand, I went to my local home improvement emporium for the ultimate prototype building material: pvc.
This also has the added benefit of being immune to water spots (well, not immune to the spots, but immune to caring about them)--we have very hard water (after one shave my Merkur HD is already hazy and dull) and I'd hate to spend actual money on a shaving stand and have it get icky from hard water deposits.
So, without further ado, I present the ultimate in declasse shaving kit: the $5 PVC shaving stand. See my silly howto at Instructables (probably the only DIY guide containing the phrase "distraught pink-cheeked badger-pamperers"!)
Vic