Thread: i think i need an intervention....

No worries High, you seem to be right on track . This is me at about 6 weeks and i have two more razors in the mail lol.

Wait until you want to start restoring...
Then you can spend some REAL $$$$

Originally Posted by badg3r

...I am sure that the savings account is practically bulging with the money saved by moving to a straight.

Lol! That's rich...

STOP buying razors. Build a forge, find a 150 year old anvil, get/build a grinder and save more by just making your own :<0)

Well at least i'm not alone. I thought it was me now I know its me. lol

Originally Posted by highxhopes

in the one month since i began straight shaving i have gotten a little out of control. here are all of the things i've purchased in that time....

norpro "scuttle", bigelow shave cream, pinaud bay rum aftershave, 1.5 oz mama bear bay rum soap, mike's natural bay rum soap

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whipped dog poor man's strop kit, star shaving big daddy strop

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2 x dovo 6/8 best quality with blond scales (one still sealed from SRD), 6/8 dovo bismarck with pearl scales, 5/8 dovo inox with pearlex scales

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there have been days that i have been sweating bullets waiting for the mail hoping it gets here before my wife does. pretty sure if she knew all the stuff i bought i'd need a new place to sleep! how long did it take you guys to go "off the deep end" if you did? did you get carried away at the beginning or was it more gradual?

I feel for you brother, the goods news is this is cheaper than buying those cartridge razors if you live to 1000 years old. The bad news is it only gets worse before you know it you'll be into custom razors 

Originally Posted by roughkype

Ahh, Carl, I don't remember that thread but it made me laugh out loud just now.

Gentle non-Carl readers (that is, gentle readers who are not Carl), you should also know that in his early posts here Carl was on a quest for a two-razor sheath, because he was certain he'd never have more than two razors. Or was it a three-razor sheath, because he was certain he'd never have more than three razors? I just remember that he was quite strenuously certain he'd be able to count his collection on a really careless woodworker's hand. That's when we knew he'd be a special addition to our community.

Carl, I think you deserve your own acronym: CMS. Yeah, it only saves one letter, but it's got the cool factor. "Does CMS shave XTG, or only WTG and maybe ATG? Does CMS's tap water play well with MWF?" See, doesn't that feel cool?

WWCMSD?

You're so funny Tim! Love your posts and good natured banter!

You self corrected, it was a three razor case; and they're buggers to find! Got two now plus one razor lives in its coffin. I've had a few more and traded them or given them away. BTW, I (CMS) would highly recommend the leather three razor case from Executive Shaving http://www.executive-shaving.co.uk/l...-stitching.php

CMS does indeed shave mainly WTG; a single pass is the norm, two passes for when the mood strikes and/or on the SBVSSS (Sunday Bedroom Vintage Shaving Stand Shave).

CMS is not as OASRS (Obsessive About Straight Razor Shaving) as CMS once was; OAB (Obsessive About Bouldering) has taken over. Previous Os (Obsessions) were: OAVC (Obsessive About Vintage Cufflinks), OAVFP (Obsessive About Vintage Fountain Pens), OAVMFC (Obsessive About Vintage Medium Format Cameras) and OA8MMFAFP (Obsessive About 8MM Films And Film Projectors).

I'm sure there'll be many more Os (Obsessions), I love my obsessions, they keep me ticking...

To be without obsessions! Oh, the mundanity! [picture Lord Byron passing the back of his limp hand across his wearied brow while drinking wine from a flagon and smoking opium, cigarettes and hashish...]

Originally Posted by AntiqueHoosier

Nice Travel Kit

this had me dying!

OK, OK, OK,

Gimme 3 Hail Razors and come back tomorrow!

So hard to do an Intervention on such short notice......

Have fun.

Looks like you have a "taste" for new razors. You could have at least twice as many if you bought vintage...what were you thinking?