Thread: Newish to straight razors

Originally Posted by PonderingTurtle

Well I went to the barber I mentioned and it was nice talking to him, but his basic advice was don't, use a mach 2.

That's interesting that you've said the barber discouraged you from shaving with a straight. I had a somewhat similar experience in talking with a local barber (still working) who's in his seventies. Great guy, not curmudgeonly at all. His take on shaves even back in the day were that from his perspective as a barber, a shave took twice as long as a haircut and cost less. So it wasn't one of his or his cohort's favorite services to perform. There wasn't a lick of "I wish I could strop up the old straights and start giving shaves again".

I talk about how great he is; he gave me a DD Dwarf (still my "go to" shaver at this point), a red imp and an economy razor. He refused to take any money for them.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Chris L

That's interesting that you've said the barber discouraged you from shaving with a straight. I had a somewhat similar experience in talking with a local barber (still working) who's in his seventies. Great guy, not curmudgeonly at all. His take on shaves even back in the day were that from his perspective as a barber, a shave took twice as long as a haircut and cost less. So it wasn't one of his or his cohort's favorite services to perform. There wasn't a lick of "I wish I could strop up the old straights and start giving shaves again".

I talk about how great he is; he gave me a DD Dwarf (still my "go to" shaver at this point), a red imp and an economy razor. He refused to take any money for them.

Chris L

Well he said he threw all his razors out 25 years ago. Funnily enough, his son who works with him lives next door.

But I rehoned my favoret razor(the first one I restored insterstingly enough, I get better results with it than the new ones I got(dovo best quality and timor blue steel) I can get a decent shave, but I am not sure if useing the swaty instead of finishing hone is good, and I used the dovo paddle strop that came prepasted with a red paste on a balsa wood side.

I think I might have problems with the HHT because I have rather fine(if as noted before long) hair. If I had a long section it would cut but not a short section.