Since I'm a noob at straight razor shaving and still learning the essentials and practicing the art of shaving, I just couldn't resist buying this. I'm going to leave it in the box till I am ready for it. But I just.... am in love with it!! Had to buy it, couldn't resist, got all tingly inside..... it was love at first sight.
The story behind it is: When I started wet shaving with a straight, I went to a barber shop to get some soap and other essentials for straight shaving. (My girlfriend showed me straight razors in a store, which led to my dad donating his straight razor to me, that's how it started.) Anyway, at this barber shop there was a display case on his counter and this razor was among others in the box. This one immediately caught my eye because of the nice spine. So I asked the guy, can I open the box and look at that razor? When I took it out I saw it was a Thiers Issard, on which he said.. "Ah.. the Thiers Issard, well.. those don't come cheap". So my girlfriend asked him what he was asking for it. He checked some things and said: "Well.. this must have been here some time because I can't find it". To make a long story short, he gave my Girlfriend his email and told her to mail him about a price. They arranged a price for it and she took me to the shop again.
My girlfriend made a very good deal with the guy! (I didn't want her to pay for it, so I paid for it myself, that's how I know).
So I got this:
I'm so happy with it!!
But like I said, I'll keep it in the box most of the time (I will take it out to look at once in a while though) till I'm ready for this. I don't think it will be a good idea to shave myself with this razor yet. It has a kind of scary "I'll cut you if you don't know how to handle me" kind of look over it.
But! I'll have something to work towards now, first I need to be able to do clean shaves, with the razors I have now.
Once I can do that and strop properly, I might consider using this awesome razor.
I know.. it's weird, don't know why, but I'm just totally nuts about this razor.
Maybe I will never use it... keep it new and nice... I don't know.
The barber told me this is an "historic"? A collectors Item? I don't know enough about razors yet, but when I google this particular razor, I can't find much about it. What do you guys think?
I just bought it because I fell in love with it.......
Anyway, just had to share my happiness! (Cuddles his new razor.)
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Couldn't restist buying this.
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