What do you look like?

[Ephemerid]

Me, with the hat...

Very handsome! 

[Saul]

Very handsome! 

Thank you, Josh!

[uffeviking]

Isn't this the same kind of cap Helmut Schmidt is wearing usually? Black embroidery on the visor?

A shave would be an improvement - in my opinion only! 

[Saul]

Isn't this the same kind of cap Helmut Schmidt is wearing usually? Black embroidery on the visor?

A shave would be an improvement - in my opinion only! 

The Hat is made by Banana Republic.

About the shave, I like the short beard... hehe 

[Henk]

Me, in Cusco, Peru, three weeks ago.

[Haffner]

Me, coupla days ago with you know who looking over my shoulder.

[Morigan]

This me, my Susanna on the left and uh... the Countess on the right!

[Haffner]

This me, my Susanna on the left and uh... the Countess on the right!

Great photo, lots of fun!

[greg]

Me, coupla days ago with you know who looking over my shoulder.

I knew you were an Ibanezer, just like me.....
what series/model is that?

[Sergeant Rock]

Me, with the hat...

Saul, I'm very surprised you are disobeying one of the Laws, Leviticus 19:27

"Do not clip your hair at the temples, nor trim the edges of your beard."


Sarge

[Haffner]

I knew you were an Ibanezer, just like me.....
what series/model is that?

I only use Ibanez for super-heavy music. My guitar of choice is the one in the picture, '70's Fender Stratocaster (Uli Jon Roth/Ritchie Blackmore style) with Dimarzio pickups in the neck and bridge. Customized with jumbo Gibson frets and a widened neck radius.

[Saul]

Saul, I'm very surprised you are disobeying one of the Laws, Leviticus 19:27

"Do not clip your hair at the temples, nor trim the edges of your beard."


Sarge

You're not familiar with Jewish law, that's why you assumed incorrectly.

Jewish law says that you can use a shaving machine if the blades do not touch the skin. The whole restriction has to do with blades touching the skin.

About the hair at the temples, there is no commandment to grow hair at that area. When you see Hasidic Jews with long hair at the temples, it has to do with doing extra, more then the law demands to show complete love to G-d, in the understanding that one who loves G-d, does more then demanded, like a true servant of the King, that does more then the King demanded. So, there is absolutely no transgression if one trims the hair on his temples according to Jewish law.

So I keep the Law as it was written, and your assumption is unfounded and incorrect.

Best Regards,

[Haffner]

Ooops. This is me with my favorite guitar. My favorite guitar player will always be Ritchie Blackmore, and this guitar is alot like one of his favorites during his Rainbow days (my favorite band).

[Varg]

You're not familiar with Jewish law, that's why you assumed incorrectly.

Jewish law says that you can use a shaving machine if the blades do not touch the skin. The whole restriction has to do with blades touching the skin.

About the hair at the temples, there is no commandment to grow hair at that area. When you see Hasidic Jews with long hair at the temples, it has to do with doing extra, more then the law demands to show complete love to G-d, in the understanding that one who loves G-d, does more then demanded, like a true servant of the King, that does more then the King demanded. So, there is absolutely no transgression if one trims the hair on his temples according to Jewish law.

So I keep the Law as it was written, and your assumption is unfounded and incorrect.

Best Regards,

And it goes without saying that shaving machines were widely used back then!

[Mark]

What is a shaving machine? Are we talking a Philishave or similar?

The whole restriction has to do with blades touching the skin.

Trip to the Turkish barber is out, then?

[Varg]

Ooops. This is me with my favorite guitar. My favorite guitar player will always be Ritchie Blackmore, and this guitar is alot like one of his favorites during his Rainbow days (my favorite band).

Nice guitar, Andy! I never played one like that; i still have my first guitar (Epiphone Les paul Custom) that i bought some 5 years ago.

Do you have any project? I think i read somewhere that you were working on a metal opera?

[m_gigena]

[Saul]

What is a shaving machine? Are we talking a Philishave or similar?

Trip to the Turkish barber is out, then?

It was never in...

[маразм1]

Ooops. This is me with my favorite guitar. My favorite guitar player will always be Ritchie Blackmore, and this guitar is alot like one of his favorites during his Rainbow days (my favorite band).

How is this guitar "special"?  It looks like any other Fender.  But just looks like the frets are shallow.  Please elaborate!

I'm a Les Paul man.  Nothing imo beats the dirty chimy sound out of it.  I've been told by many people that my guitar produced a wall of sound.  Like I sound like two guitarists; but not in a way that it's so muddy and indecipherable. 

[Saul]

And it goes without saying that shaving machines were widely used back then!

You can use scissors to trim the beard, and some used special cream to cause the hair to fall.

As long as the blade doesn't come in direct contact with the skin, its allowed.

Its one of the 613 commandments of the Torah written in a clear manner.

Wikipedia:

Some modern Jewish religious legislators in Orthodox Judaism, including The Great Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and  Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, permit the use of electric razors for the purpose of remaining clean shaven, because, in their view, electric razors work like scissors, cutting by trapping hair between the blades and a metal grating.