Joost
Tovenaar van het open scheermes
Before entering into my second "brass" period, I would like to tell you a story.
As I mentioned before, a few years ago I was a member of a Dutch forum on which I regularly published. One day a member requested me, "Joost, I have heard and read that you are a fine honer and also a nice rescaler. I have a straight with poor scales being blunt as a rain barrel. I have acquired two pairs of unfinished good looking snakewood scales. Would you replace the poor scales with one pair of the by you pimped up ones and hone and strop the poor straight for me? The second set of scales are for you.”
Of course I agreed. If one or more of you were to ask me, "Joost, I have some straights that need to be brought to the stones and the strop, would you do that for me?" I would do that right away despite the 4,000 miles of water between the two of us.
Two weeks later I received the goods at issue. The member turned out to be a Dutch diplomatic employee working at a Dutch embassy in Hong Kong. The straight was an El Cheapo AliExpress Gold Dollar straight razor of a few poor $'s. But the snakewood elementary scales bought in Cambodia, were not too bad. I put everything in order and sent it back to Hong Kong.
I mounted the awarded pair of snakewood scales on an orphaned Gong. Please see picture.
Bad image. Tomorrow with daylight better.
snakewood
As I mentioned before, a few years ago I was a member of a Dutch forum on which I regularly published. One day a member requested me, "Joost, I have heard and read that you are a fine honer and also a nice rescaler. I have a straight with poor scales being blunt as a rain barrel. I have acquired two pairs of unfinished good looking snakewood scales. Would you replace the poor scales with one pair of the by you pimped up ones and hone and strop the poor straight for me? The second set of scales are for you.”
Of course I agreed. If one or more of you were to ask me, "Joost, I have some straights that need to be brought to the stones and the strop, would you do that for me?" I would do that right away despite the 4,000 miles of water between the two of us.
Two weeks later I received the goods at issue. The member turned out to be a Dutch diplomatic employee working at a Dutch embassy in Hong Kong. The straight was an El Cheapo AliExpress Gold Dollar straight razor of a few poor $'s. But the snakewood elementary scales bought in Cambodia, were not too bad. I put everything in order and sent it back to Hong Kong.
I mounted the awarded pair of snakewood scales on an orphaned Gong. Please see picture.
Bad image. Tomorrow with daylight better.
snakewood
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