Thread: How many straights do you have in Your Rotation?

Four straights in a toothbrush holder, & three DEs next to them on the dresser. After drying and stropping, I wipe them on a cloth lightly impregnated with mineral oil.

20 ish. No set rotation just what ever strikes my fancy at the time. I always wipe the razor down after shaving with tp then strop on leather. I oil after honing then oil the pivot every once in a while. My straights that are in rotation live on top of the fridge.

I'm almost embarrassed to say, just two in my rotation. (I currently only have three straights; I tend to give them away to friends who express an interest in straight shaving.)

Addition: I dry my razors carefully and strop them after shaving. I occasionally oil them with the oil that came with my Hart Steel razor, and store them in a used hinge-top tin that some Wrigley's Spearmint gum came in, on top of a layer of silica-gel packs.

Only 2. Stropped after use and stored in a coffin in the bedroom. No oil used.

50 odd. Some in coffins some without (depends if it came with one ). I keep 4 or 5 out in a smsll converted tackle container with hd foam inside. The rest are in a metal briefcase which I made trays for that are lined with hd foam. The bottom tray and under lid area are for the coffins and the top base tray has slots for all the razors without box's. I use silica packs in the briefcase. After use is hot water rinse, wipe with tissue then a little stropping and left out open to dry. There is no set rotation I just get a few out for the small box that takes my fancy or I could completely skip it and get something from the briefcase. Atm I am using just a couple razors while I test some newer stones.

I have three mismatched 7 days sets that I use. I have been really trying not to finish the third set, but just couldn't do it so it finally got finished. Now on to the fourth, which I want to take as slow as possible. The more razors I have the less I get to use each razor. I keep them in rolls, but I have the original boxes for most of them I kept. I plan on making some boxes for them or some nicer rolls instead of the converted pencil rolls. I usually don't put any oil on them. Just give them a few laps on linen after shaving to remove any moisture and residue. If it was really humid here I might use oil or if I had more razors where I would only use one razor once every couple of months.

I have a decent sized collection: 34 at the moment, I want to say. But only about 4 of them see any regular use. A Peter Hahn, A Filarmonica, A D.C. Halsted, and recently added, a Kama. That is not counting any new razors I try out after I buy them, or razors I just honed in prep for putting them for sale.

I own more, but I have two I'm actually using that were professionally honed.

I have 5 razors on the active list, two in the bullpen and two in the mausoleum. I really like looking at them, each with a story, all of them superb shavers. I completely understand the members who will rotate their whole collections. Whatever the number in your rotation...enjoy the journey.

Because I like to look at them, this is where they are stabled. A thin wipe of Ballistol on some.

I have 20ish razors. I just pull out whatever one I feel like using that day, I usually keep my holy grail type razors for the weekend.
When I first buy a razor it gets a couple of coats of renaissance wax, then after each shave 10 or so laps on linen to dry the edge, left open to dry overnight, stropped, lightly coated with ballistoll then put away into their own box.
One day I will make a nice storage box.