Thread: How many people straight shave?

Does anyone have some kind of handle on how many in the US use straights?

It's got to be very low in percentage terms because I've never met one, in-person, in 25 years.

This has probably been discussed before, but I can't think of a good search string to get a good result.

Thanks!

Good question. I would venture to guess under 10,000 nationwide.

Chris L

Maybe you have met them without knowing. In my experience with other "lost arts," there are many more people who practice than are on internet forums for the art. And given how many sites/pages there are dedicated to straight razors, I'd guess there are quite a few of us. I'm going to guess more than 10K. It would be nice to find some research on the subject, though.

I would say there are no where Near enough people using them!!!

I suspect there are many more than we realize or would guess. I thing there are many who have been using them for many years and don't know about these sites and are like closet straight users. Many probably would never admit it if you asked them unless they knew you did too.

I can say that ever since I wandered into the Straight Razor Place one day, there's been one more straight user in the states!

Originally Posted by Chrisl

Good question. I would venture to guess under 10,000 nationwide.

Chris L

I think this is way low Chris. Hell there are 5000 members here on SRP alone and as others have said, I started with a straight many moons before SRP even existed. I have no reason for saying this but I'd bet there are at least half a million.

I would think the question can be posed to the sellers of razors and strops. They would have some sort of database on which an educated guess might be based.

I have met many people who have had a straight razor shave while on holiday, but never met someone in person who uses a straight razor.
I like it that way in some ways, as you can pick up razors for very small outlay. To most people straight razors are out-moded junk.
The downside to this exclusivity(spelling?again??) is there are verry few new reasonable priced razors out there.

I've found when talking to co-workers and the like that many foreign-born people in the U.S. have at least seen a family member shave with a straight or feather. I would tend to agree with the poster who said closer to half a million, assuming some of those family members reside here and many may not even have internet access or may not browse in english, I'd say there are definitely far more than most would think at first. Income and internet access could be a factor as well... By the way, I think everyone knows this thread is about numbers and not ethnicity, but in case it needs to be said, there it is.


Also, slightly off-topic, can anyone who's been here since before the theatrical release of Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp, not stage, obviously) guesstimate how much this site has grown? It seems to me that we gain at least two or three and often more new members a day and, mathematically speaking, it can not have always been this constant.


Quizzically,

Adam

There are only 11 straight shavers but we each have like 40 user names.

This is the second site Lynn has created (maybe third?) and about 1/2 the members changed over from the old "Yahoo" site. So what your seeing here is a portion of the total people.

The site has grown slightly faster than normal over the last year but not too much I don't think. I don't think it was the movie that brought people here, but it could have been I suppose.

Since I'm sort of chartered to read every post in every thread, I can tell you my job gets harder every month. It used to be easier to do the same thing. Now I can barely keep up.