I guess the only thing unusal about myself here, is that I am in the process of switching over (or upgrading). The reasons that I have that have not been mentioned already is that I like the idea that I am doing the job the way my father, grandfather and great grand father did before me. Sort of honoring my ancestors by doing the job the way they did. I have several double edge razors that bare a striking resemblence to the razors my father and grand father used, and the straight takes the same idea and goes one generation further with the same idea. My great grandpop used a straight, saw no reason for these "new fangled things" when the straight did such a great job on him for most of his life.