An SMF Anniversary
An SMF Anniversary
I see that I have been here for 6 years now, which amazes me. It was my first experience with an Internet forum, and I was moved to join to get in on the SMF III brush made by Rooney. Though some notable products have disappeared, we now have an incredible variety of traditional shaving products, probably unlike any time in the past.
I have joined other forums along the way, and I enjoy them also, but SMF remains my shaving mainstay, the place I am most comfortable. I have stepped back a bit in recent years, but I am still glad to be a part of this community.
- Murray
I have joined other forums along the way, and I enjoy them also, but SMF remains my shaving mainstay, the place I am most comfortable. I have stepped back a bit in recent years, but I am still glad to be a part of this community.
- Murray
- fallingwickets
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- rustyblade
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Congrats Murray, from a fellow SMF old-timer.
How things have changed... Back then MWF was 'just discovered' and had to be ordered from Wool retailers in England. There were only a handful of vendors and none of them carried all of the popular shave products we now take for granted. If you were Canadian, getting shave products required effort. Coded messages were written on the backs of napkins, then ditto-machined onto teletype and Morse-coded from a Western Union to a mysterious man named "Charles", bank drafts from secret US bank accounts and shipping through Kuala Lumpur via Amsterdam to get anything up here. Shave bowls from Scotland. Only 5 or so readily available DE blades. Vintage Gillette's were just starting to be discovered on a large scale. Unless you were German nobody knew what a Muhle was either.
Brings a tear to the eye.
How things have changed... Back then MWF was 'just discovered' and had to be ordered from Wool retailers in England. There were only a handful of vendors and none of them carried all of the popular shave products we now take for granted. If you were Canadian, getting shave products required effort. Coded messages were written on the backs of napkins, then ditto-machined onto teletype and Morse-coded from a Western Union to a mysterious man named "Charles", bank drafts from secret US bank accounts and shipping through Kuala Lumpur via Amsterdam to get anything up here. Shave bowls from Scotland. Only 5 or so readily available DE blades. Vintage Gillette's were just starting to be discovered on a large scale. Unless you were German nobody knew what a Muhle was either.
Brings a tear to the eye.
Richard
Happy Anniversary, Murray -- I'll not include my usual link to the Flinstones' Happy Anniversary song ..... wait, I couldn't resist .....
While this may not have been my first forray into internet forums, it's the one I have stayed the longest with, including the DP Review photography forum, and Canadiandriver.com.
I like the community, and very much enjoy the discussions.
While this may not have been my first forray into internet forums, it's the one I have stayed the longest with, including the DP Review photography forum, and Canadiandriver.com.
I like the community, and very much enjoy the discussions.
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Re: An SMF Anniversary
Hey buddy,CMur12 wrote:I see that I have been here for 6 years now, which amazes me.
I have joined other forums along the way, and I enjoy them also, but SMF remains my shaving mainstay, the place I am most comfortable. I have stepped back a bit in recent years, but I am still glad to be a part of this community.
- Murray
Hah, I think the last time we typed at each other was during the great IK drought. We also happened to join this place about the same time. Holy crap! You are quite the verbose one.......heh.
A pleasure to have you as a forum member,
Martin
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Congrats dude.
Hope we're all around for a long time yet.
Richard, I remember those coded messages I used to send Charles so he could ship me stuff up here.
I even talked to him on the phone a few times.
I might have to check out what deals he has lately.
Hope we're all around for a long time yet.
Richard, I remember those coded messages I used to send Charles so he could ship me stuff up here.
I even talked to him on the phone a few times.
I might have to check out what deals he has lately.
Bruno
"Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean
shave every day and you'll always look keen."
"Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean
shave every day and you'll always look keen."
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Thanks for all the kind words, friends who have made this community what it is.
I certainly remember Charles, though apparently it was much easier to order from him here in the US than it was in Canada. He finally updated his website and he's still in business, but he has a lot of competition today.
Thanks again -
- Murray
I certainly remember Charles, though apparently it was much easier to order from him here in the US than it was in Canada. He finally updated his website and he's still in business, but he has a lot of competition today.
Thanks again -
- Murray
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That's pretty neat Murray! You're one of the folks who makes this such a nice place for us noobs to the site.
Brian
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Maker of Kramperts Finest Bay Rum and Frostbite
Or find it here: Italian Barber, West Coast Shaving, Barclay Crocker, The Old Town Shaving Company at Stats, Maggard Razors; Leavitt & Peirce, Harvard Square
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