Found a Fatboys in the wild

lerenau

lerenau

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Hey all,

I'm down the coast and found a decent/good-looking Fatboy in an antique shop. Also had the original case in good condition.

The asking price was $145. I thought that was a bit rich. But I thought I might run it past you guys to gauge opinions.

The owner of the store clearly had no idea about DE razors.
Had a few Techs and misc classic DEs and SEs.
He also had a 3 or 4 cut-throat razors (in their original boxes.

What do you think? Am I right to pass-up a (probably good) Fatboys for that price?

@Mark1966
 
Not totally outrageous for a collectible.

More than I’d pay for a user
 
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lerenau said:
Sorry Mate. I think autocorrect ate that last line. Or maybe the wine has hit me harder than expected. Both are likely.
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PHEW - I can fix it!
 
I'm afraid I was interstate. I'm back home now. :(
 
lerenau said:
What do you think? Am I right to pass-up a (probably good) Fatboys for that price?
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I think you made the right choice. Maybe a recently refurbished or pristine collectors piece for that price but user grade ~$100.
FWIW I prefer the Slim but YMMV
 
I'm glad I decided to focus on modern SE razors. The vintage Gillette rabbit-hole is far too deep for me, as @Mark1966 has amply demonstrated. If I were to go there, I might just as well file the divorce papers myself and save Mrs Gargravarr the trouble. :rolleyes:
 
Yes. I am finding that the pressures of too much work and young monsters children is pushing me down all kinds of rabbit holes in a bid to cling to sanity.

My latest obsession is mechanical keyboards... It almost makes chasing that Wolfman/Toggle we've all been craving seem healthy.
 
lerenau said:
Yes. I am finding that the pressures of too much work and young monsters children is pushing me down all kinds of rabbit holes in a bid to cling to sanity.

My latest obsession is mechanical keyboards... It almost makes chasing that Wolfman/Toggle we've all been craving seem healthy.
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Oh, mechanical keyboards - gold!
 
lerenau said:
What do you think? Am I right to pass-up a (probably good) Fatboys for that price?
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It's a very fair price if the plating is okay, the TTO works well and the box is in good nick. I'd have put a cheeky $120 offer and then accepted his $135 :cool:
 
lerenau said:
Yes. I am finding that the pressures of too much work and young monsters children is pushing me down all kinds of rabbit holes in a bid to cling to sanity.

My latest obsession is mechanical keyboards... It almost makes chasing that Wolfman/Toggle we've all been craving seem healthy.
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Once you get a mechanical keyboard, there's no going back - well, except when you have to use the garbage they supply you at work...
 
Zeke said:
Once you get a mechanical keyboard, there's no going back - well, except when you have to use the garbage they supply you at work...
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Maybe, so long as you don't mind living alone. The noise might get you thrown out of the house. :D Personally, I think mechanical keyboards are overrated, having started a career looking so with computers working with a Teletype master console (on an old Burroughs mainframe) that not even God could touch-type with. That said, they're probably better than the ICL keypunch machines we did our coding on. If you want to go fully retro, try that...
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Call it a challenge if you like... :p This is the only picture I could find in a hurry. Ours looked a bit prettier than that, but not much. I guess they were newer then. Most of the pictures you find these days show card punchers the size of a large desk (with actual mechanical keyboards) but this kind of thing is what most of us programmers had to actually use.
 
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