Lockback
Dull yet interesting
It's impossible to photograph mine because they're all in black sealed plastic bags. But I do keep a spread sheet. Here are a couple of screen shots of a portion of it:
Your blade collections.
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Well right now I have open tuck all around the den. One the bonanza is over I have a lot of clean up to do myself.Those are all open tucks? I hope @blethenstrom doesn't see this. Hey will be grabbing his chest like Fred Sanford! It's the big one Weezie!
Yeah that would take a while to clean up.
Right now the open ones serve as a library when I want to see something written on a package, grab another individual from the lot of a test, or whatever. I probably will shave with a bunch of them eventually.
Haha - I don`t feel worthy in all your illustrious, esteemed and knowledgeable company - most of my razors, plus colognes, brushes, travel razor kits etc fit in three big leather toiletry bags and most are Chinese wonders or bargain Vintage scrapers.
I can shave with any DE razor and even bargain basement well-honed straights but lately I`ve got a few more decent blades.
200 Torpedo Lieres carbons
100 Feathers
100 Treet Black carbons
100 London Bridges
100 Lord Rainbows
50 Med Preps
100 Wilkinson Swords
200 Suneko
About a hundred more unbranded and blades from everywhere but I want more very Vintage (40`s - 60`s) uncoated carbons and I`m deffo gonna get a few more hundred Wilki`s - love `em to bits.
I have about sixty bars of toilet/bath/shaving stick soap/whipped soap tubs and 10 litres of Castile liquid soap base plus 2KG loaf of Savon de Marseille and 3 mature Savon d`Aleps that were dear but worth it.
At my age, with all the water under the bridge, I don`t need anymore shaving tackle - I`m 59 next Friday - but young at heart !
I keep my most used ones in this organizer box.
There are others...
Barring natural/man made disaster or sudden immortality I think I might be all set.
There are others...
Barring natural/man made disaster or sudden immortality I think I might be all set.
Oh Wow well done velocityboy - you are VERY organised - I used to be until I was 11 - then I became an alcoholic and my OCD went offski through the window and I had more time to socialise and zig and zag around the World.
Lotta Rainbows. Very nice.
Thanks - got the Rainbows for a song - about $6 - I thought they were fine Quaznoid - I couldn`t find anything else in Alexandria some nights.
The third bag down is new today - full already - hope the stitching`s strong - no rest for the wicked !
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I used to inventory my blades at the beginning of every year, until we sold the house and downsized to an apartment 4 years ago. All I know is that, even tossing every blade after one use, I'll be dead before I ever run out.
Oh njpaddy I`ve got a confession - I`ve died and come back a few times so I might be a zombie shaver - you never know - even with warm feet lol.
Diphtheria, whooping cough and double pneumonia - 3 times - had 3 emergency tracheotomies.
Got blown up by a landmine in Ramallah - West Bank - still deaf
Drowned in pool in Turkey `98
Stroke about 4-5 years ago
Heart stopped on holiday at my Brothers about 10-15 years ago - zapper in the newsagents.
Covid and cough stopped my heart 3-4 years ago - paramedics zapped me
Died after 2 month coma after a bad beating in my twenties
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I know i have had a colourful life velocityboy and i know i have a guardian angel and my mum looking down on me.
I still drink and smoke and go clubbing velocityboy
This old Dutchie keeps me going - I call it my Wonky Donkey !
Right - enough digressing !
I still drink and smoke and go clubbing velocityboy
This old Dutchie keeps me going - I call it my Wonky Donkey !
Right - enough digressing !
Could you please recommend where to buy a plastic container like this? probably even on Aliexpress I can find but I looked and couldn't find anything similar and big.
I still use a wooden box,I have some space but I have purchased many more blades in recent periods and I need new space for my blades.
Lockback
Dull yet interesting
Those are the ones I use... both for razor blade tucks and for general overflow.... I have the OEM handles stored in one, as I'm using lighter titanium handles quite often..... Anything shaving related that needs a storage place... extra parts, base plates, you name it... All stored in the master bath walk-in clothes closet.
Aw I`m so sorry Lockback - dropped in the deep end as it were - erm Mum was a concert pianist with the Halle Orchestra in the late sixties-early seventies - Dad was an F1 driver in the sixties but had to retire after a crash because of facial disfigurement and became a test driver - we had a new top of the range Jaguar, Rolls-Royce , Mercedes, Bentley, Bristol, Ferrari, Morgan, TVR, Bugatti, Maserati and Lamborghini every month - Mum got a white E-type Jag for her 21st birthday because she passed her pilot`s licence - so she could fly to Brussels from Barton.
Mum left my Aunty for dead and she had two degrees - no time for uni because she brought up two little boys single-handedly.
I was in hospital a year at a time with chest complaints lol - I had to learn to walk and talk - three times - whatever doesn`t kill you etc haha !
Visited 62 Countries - lived in ten since `69 - currently disabled but do my best to feed the homeless and my Gf sews and does upholstery for the needy.
I had many hobbies that turned into careers - got three degrees but still feel inadequate so I read veraciously - my fave hobbies are playing the tenor sax, herbalism and listening to shortwave radio.
Phones and `puters are just a necessary evil to me - I had a much better social life without a landline or mobile - done `puters since 1980 - systems analyst for ICL.
Love rare and esoteric books - they are spiritual to me and guide me.
Before you ask - normal traditional ones.
Mum left my Aunty for dead and she had two degrees - no time for uni because she brought up two little boys single-handedly.
I was in hospital a year at a time with chest complaints lol - I had to learn to walk and talk - three times - whatever doesn`t kill you etc haha !
Visited 62 Countries - lived in ten since `69 - currently disabled but do my best to feed the homeless and my Gf sews and does upholstery for the needy.
I had many hobbies that turned into careers - got three degrees but still feel inadequate so I read veraciously - my fave hobbies are playing the tenor sax, herbalism and listening to shortwave radio.
Phones and `puters are just a necessary evil to me - I had a much better social life without a landline or mobile - done `puters since 1980 - systems analyst for ICL.
Love rare and esoteric books - they are spiritual to me and guide me.
Before you ask - normal traditional ones.
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Brilliant idea helicopter - I`m gonna give loads away before I push my daises up so no need for storage - too old.
Thank you helicopter - I wish I could be sensible and normal - like you !
Erm no more Hi-Fi`s, kitchen knives, scissors , `puters, radios, books, razors or soap - got plenty - but, but, but doing my own perfumes again so it`s a rabbit hole innit ? haha !
Some essential oils, concretes and attars and the CO2 absolutes are thousands a teaspoon - time to roll my sleeves up before I snuff it and do some good - cheer people up - no charge needed - they can pay me with a smile.
Erm no more Hi-Fi`s, kitchen knives, scissors , `puters, radios, books, razors or soap - got plenty - but, but, but doing my own perfumes again so it`s a rabbit hole innit ? haha !
Some essential oils, concretes and attars and the CO2 absolutes are thousands a teaspoon - time to roll my sleeves up before I snuff it and do some good - cheer people up - no charge needed - they can pay me with a smile.
