Thread: What is WRONG with You Guys????

It simply gives me the best shave I've ever had. That's the thing I think.

I always assumed we (our group) were all barbers in a past life and were drawn to it out of uncontrollable instinct.

Besides all the obvious: better for the skin, use of neat soaps and creams, better for the enviornment, shaveing how our Grandfathers did, etc., etc..

To shave with something that most people consider dangerous is just very, very cool!!

Plus,......Stropping is very, very sexy!

I am an acoustic guitarist and once upon a time owned a guitar pick that was made out of genuine tortoise shell (turtle shell). This pick always played and sounded amazing, till I lost it. It is now, and quite rightly, illegal to kill turtles for their shells and so you can no longer buy guitar picks from this material. SO!! I was on ebay looking for old artefacts that may be made out of the shell that I could fashion into guitar picks (this is not illegal!) and … you guessed it came upon a few straight razors with faux shell scales. A synapse was immediately branched in my brain!!

I have always had a slight knife fascination (Bowie knifes especially) but never had a need for a knife in my day to day life, So I thought now if I learned to shave with one of these things then… price of Mach 3 cartridges raising my blood pressure …. I started researching…. Started perving around the SRP etc and now I’m a pathological shaver and the rest is history!!

It is a love that dare not speak it’s name though!! Most people just think you’re weird if you mention it but who cares I love it and at the very least it gives the good lady a taste of her own medicine when it comes to hogging the bathroom!

Shave on!!

Ray

I collect razors because they are interesting and beatiful. I shave with them because it would be a shame to have all these purpose-made tools lying around doing nothing; and because straight razor shaving is a "man skill".

There is something very basic about living life on purpose.

Grinding beans for the coffee, sharpening the razor,

The simplest aspects are the most overlooked. I'm fairly sure that the secret to a happy life is a focus on doing the basics extraordinarily well.

We often spend our energy on the complex and the difficult trying to stretch our skills without developing the underlying strengths required to be successful. The homily of too busy to sharpen the axe is true and likely far more understandable for those of you who have tried to hone a #$%$#$^! straight razor.

My new years resolution this year was to become very good at the very basic life skills. I thought I might start when I wake up. My coffee is excellent. Now I'm working on my morning toilet. Once I have a good edge and 3 excellent razors I will likely work on Breakfast.

Small things done 20,000 times add up to a lot more than big thing done once in a way that our culter does not tend to respect.

Just my thoughts...

Clearly there is something wrong with me,

- Bob

Originally Posted by RobertFontaine

There is something very basic about living life on purpose.

Grinding beans for the coffee, sharpening the razor,

The simplest aspects are the most overlooked. I'm fairly sure that the secret to a happy life is a focus on doing the basics extraordinarily well.

Bob, you are absolutely right. Too few of us stick to this way of life/lifestyle nowadays.
What you said explains perfectly the difference in mentality between a straight-razor guy and a M3 guy.

3 main reasons for me (no particular order):

1) I've always thought it looked wicked cool.

2) I don't like paper plates, disposable razors or other consumables because I don't like having a recurring cost of time and effort to replace them. Plus, sometimes you'll run out and be screwed. I guess this is more self-reliance than environmentalism.

3) I have a weird collector's mentality. I don't need fifty or a thousand razors.
But I would absolutely love to get three identical Henckel blades (with barber notches. ) and get someone to put custom identical scales on with inlaid I, II, III. Something about me likes sets and consistency way too much. I read comics (dork!) and have two copies of one trade paperback because the first copy I got was from a different printing and the spines don't match on the shelf.

Switching to DE shaving from the Mach 3 led me into straight shaving. I joined a couple wet shaving boards and kept reading about straight razor shaving that was included in these boards. I am now hooked on straight shaving and will never go back to DE. I get closer and more irritation free shaves with the straight and think it is way cool to be shaving like my grandfathers.

bj

Originally Posted by 2Sharp

Switching to DE shaving from the Mach 3 led me into straight shaving. I joined a couple wet shaving boards and kept reading about straight razor shaving that was included in these boards. I am now hooked on straight shaving and will never go back to DE. I get closer and more irritation free shaves with the straight and think it is way cool to be shaving like my grandfathers.

bj

Yeah. Me too. Plus cartridges are expensive and I don't like the idea of disposable products. Plus it is kind-of manly to shave with a single blade. I like the historical aspect as well. And the self reliance it brings.