Beautiful File Work on handle.
Great Piece of Art – Stunning Handle with File Work
Beautiful Pattern Sharp Edge Blade
High quality Leather sheath included.
These pieces make excellent gifts for all occasions. Groomsmen gifts, give one to a son or grandchild who is graduating. House warming gifts, collectibles for knife and shaving enthusiasts. Birthday, Father's days…and occasion that calls for a remembered gift.
Is it Real Damascus Steel?
A brief history of Damascus Steel: This is what we consider Damascus Steel today. "real" Ancient Damascus steel is a lost art.
The steel that was forged by the sword smiths of Ancient Damascus was a highly guarded secret, it cannot be perfectly replicated even today. The process was lost to the middle-eastern metal smiths around 1750 AD, possibly because sources of ores containing trace amounts of tungsten and/or vanadium needed for its production were depleted. So with the raw materials and recipes of the metal smiths' to make these items no longer available, it is unknown exactly how Damascus Steel was originally produced. Numerous attempts have been made to recreate the process with varying success, but the original process remains speculative at best.
I personally don't suggest treating this like a daily shaver as there are better options for shaving. I prefer to think of these as heirloom art pieces, and collectibles. I absolutely love them and collecting them but it is not my go to razor for shaving for multiple reasons. If you're looking for a shave ready straight razor please see our shave ready razors. These are heavy duty, the steel used in modern times is superior for shaving, the blade is longer than what I find comfortable to shave with. With all that said this is still my favorite razor blade by far that I own. If I shave with Damascus steel it is larger body parts not my face. If you have honing stones and a strop you can get these shave ready but they need more maintenance than modern blades to maintain the razor edge.
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In “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the 1940s Christmas classic, George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) is the guiding force of a small-town bank, who ends up sacrificing his own dreams for the betterment of his community.
Ultimately, facing financial ruin, he begins to question what it was all for. That is when his friends appear, one by one, with a flurry of donations, reminding him of how he touched each and every one of their lives, and Bailey realizes he is a rich man after all.
bitcoin evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos recently found himself at the center of a similar outpouring of gratitude. The author and public speaker has spent the last five years of his life traversing the globe and educating people about bitcoin. But, as it turns out, he hadn’t exactly made himself rich along the way.
WIth the price of bitcoin soaring into the $16,000s, a grateful community has decided to give Antonopoulos’s fortunes a karmic boost. A spontaneous giving spree, fueled by social media, is under way. Thus far, more than 100 BTC, valued at over $1.7 million has been sent to his address
. alone sent an eye-popping 37 BTC, worth $500,000.
Along with the money, people are tweeting under the hashtag and reminding Antonopoulos of the many ways he made a difference in their lives.
“Words are my craft but tonight I am speechless,” the author of last night.
Never a Rich Man
Antonopoulos became involved with bitcoin in 2012. He has written two books on the subject, describing in detail the technical rules governing bitcoin in a way that a novice could understand, and has given more than 200 talks (many of them free) about bitcoin.
It is easy to imagine that someone who knows so much about bitcoin might have found a way to profit from it. A small investment in the virtual currency five years ago, when bitcoin was at around $6, would have netted the bitcoin writer a humongous profit. (bitcoin is currently listed at $16,000.) But Antonopoulos wasn’t really a speculator.
Indeed, as investor Roger Ver in one of his tweets, if Antonopoulos had put more money into bitcoin early on, he would have been a lot better off financially.
But Antonopoulos was too busy, too obsessed with spreading his vision of a world free from the strictures of legacy banks and payment systems. He wanted people to understand the technology and to appreciate its promise.
That early obsession, as he described in a recent , led him to undo a lifetime of savings and eventually fall into credit card debt as he tumbled down the bitcoin rabbit hole. He lived paycheck to paycheck for years until becoming debt-free at the end of 2016. Those bitcoins he’d collected and earned had to be cashed out along the way to support him and his family.
I did invest, Roger. Then I sold in 2013 to pay my rent. I didn't have disposable income to work for two years without pay and invest at the same time. I should've gone into more debt, but that would have been irresponsible towards my family who I supported
— Andreas M. Antonopoulos (@aantonop)
Because most people were not aware of Antonopoulos’s earlier struggles, some were puzzled when he recently began putting videos of his talks on , a membership platform that allows users to collect monthly subscription fees for services.
“I’m not a bitcoin millionnaire [sic],” Antonopoulos to one follower on Twitter. “My supporters on Patreon, many at $5/month, make it possible for me to work with independence.”
Developer Adam Back quickly with the suggestion that “if ‘sign guy’ can get a meaningful start from tips, we should try [to] find a way for the community to fund to a hodlers position.” And the community agreed.
Shortly thereafter, his number of Patreon supporters began to rise, and donations started to pour into Antonopoulos’s bitcoin address.
In addition to the funds that accumulated, accolades began to pour in from supporters far and wide on Twitter, Reddit and . Many credit him for getting them into bitcoin in the first place, for helping them to understand it and for inspiring them to pursue careers in the space.
“I don’t know anyone as authentic, well-intentioned and universally respected in the industry,” wrote entrepreneur Ryan Selkis in a .
for being a shining example of what a thought leader in the space should look like 👏👏
— Dan Hedl (@danheld)
“@aantonop is by far the BEST advocate and most eloquent speaker on #bitcoin. His speeches had a HUGE influence on me,” investor and author Brian Kelly.
“The community raised over $700,000 worth of bitcoin in a matter of hours for Andreas from all over the world, which beautifully shows the power of bitcoin itself, actually,” Erik Voorhees, CEO at cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift.
For Antonopoulos, the outpouring of support has been no less than overwhelming.
“I am going offline for a few days. I need time to process everything that happened,” he on Wednesday. “If you sent me a message in the last 48 hrs, thank you. If I don’t respond for a week or so, I apologize.”
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