Thread: NoVa Get Together

Brian (aka DIYGuy) was a great host this afternoon. We had a great get together with some really fun gear. This was my first meet up like this, and I'm very pleased I made it. Here are a few pictures for all to enjoy:

Alan (aka AFDavis11) honing:


Jerry (aka JerryByers ):


John (aka JohnnyCakesDC) and Brian:


John (aka GlobalDev) making scales:


Channing and John (aka Malacoda):

Eric (aka Desi):


P0rn:

A great big thank you to Brian for hosting, and to all the guys for making this a great get together!

Yea, that was an awesome Get-together. As you can see from the pics it was all business! Great pics!

Man, looks like a great time was had. Next time I'll make sure my wife doesn't have a birthday the same day.

Originally Posted by bharner

Man, looks like a great time was had. Next time I'll make sure my wife doesn't have a birthday the same day.

You should have told her to pick an alternate date this year! Where are your priorities?

I had a great time meeting and chatting with all you guys today. Big thanks to Brian for having us. Looking forward to doing it again. All The Best-J

It was nice meeting everybody this afternoon. Thanks Brian for hosting and providing the snacks. Thanks Alan for the help with the honing.

My daughter got sick yesterday so I was on cuddle duty. No offense, but snuggling all afternoon on the couch with my 7-year old, knowing that she's not going to want to cuddle with her old man for much longer, beat out spending the afternoon talking razors with y'all. Next time, Gadget....

Brian & Alan,

Much thanks for putting this together!! I kind of thought that we'd be watching a couple of you go through a parts of a restore and taking notes and tips/cues, not actually hands-on with our own razors.. absolutely not, to my fantastic surprise. Given the notice that we got about bringing our own project razors, I probably should have thought about or traced out at least a shape of scales, regardless... the finished scales Brian helped me with came out sweet. way nicer final execution than the initial rough version and I was getting nervous I had removed too much material to even be able to scale any razor with...

Brian (great host!) thanks for the attention and time towards the end, some guys might have just said, " that's the scales, you can finish on your own" but you stuck it out to the very very end...

It was great putting faces with names and checking out the very nice gear people brought.. and discussing likes and dislikes of razors, strops, hones and very exciting seeing Brian (and John's) stash of materials. I gotta get Brian's source for my stocking workshop...

it truly is kinda fun to talk face-to-face about this hobby/past-time, sometimes evening digging into the fun minutiae of wedges, materials, thicknesses, angles, etc...

I'll post a picture of the razor/scales very soon!

Great time guys.. i really appreciated the effort in setting it up and people showing up.

-Jon

BTW, my daughters both had the sniffles yesterday... they didn't want me to leave and it broke my heart to go, but when i came home, there is nothing like the feeling as when they are so excited to see me and hear about my adventure..