Thread: What regrets do you have from your straight razor adventure

I regret putting off buying a Neil Miller made strop when he was still with us. I've never heard a bad thing about his craftsmanship.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I had not heard? Beautiful strops.

Sorry for my mistake. I was referring to "Neil".

Originally Posted by Firefighter2

I regret putting off buying a Neil Miller made strop when he was still with us. I've never heard a bad thing about his craftsmanship.

That and a pixel-brush. Masters of their crafts.

I wished I would've bought a strop from Neil. I own a TM strop, so glad I bought it. I regret not having Pixelfixed, aka Bill, make a brush for me, but through the generosity of a member of this forum , a beautiful custom from Bill appeared on my doorstep one day. We have some very talented craftsmen among us, don't let their artistry pass you by.

Originally Posted by dinnermint

That and a pixel-brush. Masters of their crafts.

Ditto here. A William Barber brush would be a treasured item to have without a doubt. I loved his work and his straightforward take on life. They broke the mold on that gentleman for sure!

I best not put off inquiring about a skateboard brush from HarryWally some day.

Regrets, I've had a few,
But then again, too few to ment....oh, hang on that's a song...

My only regret is not having the knowledge I have now when my boys were growing up.
Have 6 grandsons so far, and enough razors to last several generations. I am going to teach them correct shaving and grooming procedures, none of which will involve a muck 3 or any canned goo.

I regret that my grandfather's straights were disposed of at his death. Some baseless fear that I, as a ten year old might hurt myself or someone else. Silly idea, I think. I finally bought a new production straight from PRC a few months ago and couldn't be happier. It is in getting honed and new fancy scales. At the age of 70, I fear that the RAD is coming on me. My wife is sort of understanding. Pray she stays that way.

Not starting sooner.

I wish I had started lapping with my Norton stone. Or at least paid better attention when I was doing so. I had just spent an unholy amount of time on a rather hard Chinese stone, and in my zeal to quickly lap the Norton washed half of the 4k side down the drain before I realized how soft it was in comparison. That was a fairly pricey mistake, those single grit replacement hones hurt the ol' wallet a bit and came far sooner than they should have.

I guess we can add that Gold Dollar 'practice razor' to the list. I meant to use it for honing practice, but every time I turned around I was dropping my Dovo, rolling the edge on a strop, or otherwise boning something up so most of my practice was done on it anyway.

Boiling the linen part of my Illinois strop wasn't such a hot idea either. I only meant to heat it up some while cleaning. Put it in a pot of water, set it on the stove. Made a mental note not to get distracted, then 30 minutes later it was FUBAR'd. Well, the linen still works but the handle is all shrunken and gnarly.

Glad I made that mistake with a cheap strop and not my nicer SRD strop.

Buying this dd goldedge. From the pics the scales look in good condition the gold plate is almost all there, but my regret was I did not notice the end of the blade. It looks to have been dropped and had an attempt at repair by a previous owner.


The first pic was theirs and the second was after I opened it.
Wish I would have noticed that. Lesson learned the hard way. But at least I have a good set of scales for a goldedge if I happen to come across a good blade that needs scales. Can't complain much for $30. Too much of a pain to return it. I guess now I have a goldedge dwarf.

Betcha it shaves good!