As most people of my age I started out with a Bic style razor, and my face did not like it at all. I had razor bumps with every shave; so I stopped shaving for a long time. When I started looking into using a straight razor, a barber told me that I should not do it because I would cut my throat. I told him hell yah I'm going to cut my self and quite possibly my throat. If you don't try new things in life it things get stale, so I set off in to the inter web to find out about straight razor shaving. After reading many articles and watching lots of videos on the benefits of using a straight razor, and how when your son grew up you could teach him the art of the shave, and hand him down your razor and so on down through the generations. Thats when I knew that this was for me. I still don't shave all the time but when I do I have a good time doing it.