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- #49
Man overboard - @tomj777 - you are about to dabble in the Black Arts. Fantastic - good luck with the restos!Fork....
So.... I've been pretty good and been focusing on technique (so much still to learn)...
I've already treated myself to a Tech (but resisted using it until I reckoned I've deserved it) but shown restraint since...
However, yesterday I spotted a scuttle in a local BHF charity shop and bought it for a possibly steep £3 (my first attempt at using it wasn't good, and I don't think my brush appreciated it).
I've been musing over trying my hand at restoration (I'm one of those moderately cash poor theoretically time rich people) and late in the evening I spotted what was advertised on eBay as a "GILLETTE ARISTOCRAT IN ORIGINAL CHROME CASE" but I rather suspected was a #68 Super Speed with a misread patent number (which resolves to an improvement in ovens) alongside a 1948 Aristocrat #16 case. Both in condition fit for purpose. I shamefully used a snipe to purchase it at my ceiling price. I confessed to SHMBO who told me not to let this new hobby get out of control... Impossible, I said, and showed her pictures from @Bechet 's posts in the scary Shave den show-off (AKA: Bring out your stash!) It will be interesting to see what happens next (and what it is I've bought)
As I said there or someplace else, my stash is only possible because there isn't a SWMBO claiming a share of space and finances!I confessed to SHMBO who told me not to let this new hobby get out of control... Impossible, I said, and showed her pictures from @Bechet 's posts
Welcome Tom - a bit late I know. Also a bit late for you but maybe of use to other newcomers - a bit of advice I picked up the other day is 'Shave the lather' - I think that's a good way of explaining the pressure that should be used.
If you are going to 'man up' and defy 'She Who Must Be Obeyed,' you might as well be prepared to start referring to her as 'that woman' or 'the missus.'...I confessed to SWMBO who told me not to let this new hobby get out of control... Impossible, I said...
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