Thread: Are young people into straight razor shaving?

Originally Posted by bombay

i didnt forget, i know how immature you are hehe

Oh the things you have to put up with dad.

I started out a few months before I turned 22. A friend of mine had told me years earlier that he got a straight shaving set from his parents, which spiked my interest.
The prices seemed too high back then, but later on I found a shavette, blades, brush and soap for less than €50. A few months later, I bought my first SR, a 7/8" The Crown & Sword Razor in brown horn which is still my best and prettiest. By now, at 23, I spent over €1000 on razors, hones, soaps and restoration equipment and earned back a few hundred euros. I was a little shocked to find out I had spent that sort of money on shaving, but I intend to restore and sell on a regular basis. Maybe, one day, I'll be actually saving money

Soon, a friend of mine will give her 31-year-old boyfriend an SR kit. Guess who supplies the brush and hones the razor Other friends are usually not interested. Either they hate shaving, grow beards or are frightened of very sharp objects.

Yeah. I am. I'm only 51.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Yeah. I am. I'm only 51.

I think you made a typo and meant 15.

Originally Posted by Laurens

I think you made a typo and meant 15.

No no. 51. You see I'm tackling the ageist, label thing. I'm very much in to dispensing with badges and labels and profiles lately. I've been reading a philosophy magazine with the topic of 'freedom'. I've been thinking dangerously...I've been wanting to tackle everything and have it all undone, unraveled and on the floor and in a mess in the dim light, to be looked at closely, and to be put back together in an interesting, new way...

[EDIT], plus I'm drinking Qettinger pilsener and listening to Tool...which enables one...

I took the time to show my 17 yr old son how to shave with a straight and passed down my first razor and strop to him and he loves it.

At 54 I have been shaving about a year now with a straight. My son got me started, he is 24. Hmm old dog new tricks. Yes I listen to metal bands also, but work better with dubstep in background. Hmm.. Feel the same as when I was 30.
I feel there is a gradual movement with younger men to look into alternative razors. DE's are making a slow come back for the younger guys. I think the robust prices for the newer razor blades has helped the movement!!
I have interested several of the younger men I work with into DE shaving. Now many are buying knots making handles and starting to purchase straights for future restoration and shaving!!
The interest is there just somewhat obscure I think!!

Ray

I hope so....would like to see them make a comeback in general...

I am 28 and I am just starting with the straight razor shaving. I have already got my father, one of my friends and my sister's husband interested in either DE or Straight shaving.

For me the trigger to get interested in Straight shaving was when I realized I use some 600€ per year just to buy Gillette disposable blades, I didn´t calculate how much goes to the shitty canned foams and gels ontop of that. I can pretty much get a good starting set to straight shaving with the 600€, but instead of lasing one year it will last my life time. Of course you will need to buy soaps, creams, brushes every now and then but it still ain't 600€ per year.

Of course there is the coolness factor in the straight shaving, feeling little like a cowboy back in the wild wild west. And of course the zen that comes when you are working with a surgigal sharp object on your face.

It depends what you mean by str8 or DE shaving.

I just turned 50, started just over a year ago....but when I started shaving, my Dad passed on to me what is now called a DE shaver. At the time, it was something you used to shave with, no biggie, and like my Dad, I would emerge from the bathroom with my face covered in little pieces of toilet paper from all the nicks.

Now my Dad and my Grandfather had all used str8's, my Grandfather never stopped, my Dad hated them.

Maybe it's for this reason I don't like DE's, to me, IMO, they will cut / nick you faster than any straight, I feel I have far more control over a str8 than a DE.

So, AFAIK, the more young one's str8 shaving the better, all us old farts, just like we got all the jobs and bought our houses on the cheap, can watch the prices of razors skyrocket and then listen to the whining about how we had it so much better than the Millennials!

Sorry...couldn't resist...I'm old and bitter! '-)