So what is your routine?

Well I may or not be a newby. I have been shaving with a str8 since late Dec. You call it.

My routine is: I have an 8 day rotation of blades. I make them all SR. I then use them one by one. When a blade needs work it goes to the back of the rotation. I then have a 7 day rotation. I go this way usually until I have a 4 day rotation of SR blades. I then will touch up all the blades, usually on a Barbers hone and possibly on a chrom ox or diamond str
op. I then repeat the 8 day rotation.
What do you guys/women do?

Mark

I grab one out of the collection and use it. When it starts to pull a little I hone it. I have my favorites but use all that I have. No set order!

My routine? Well, I have none. I will hone a razor, shave test it, hone it shave test etc. until I like it. I will continue using that razor until I hone another razor for somebody else or one of my own. I do not have the most razors of the guys here on SRP but if I honed one per week it would take 15 years to get them all honed!
Rotation? Ya gotta be kidding me!:)

I have no routine these days. I shave whenever I can get away with it and count myself lucky to have a sharp razor. Such is the life of this stay at home dad. *sigh*

X

Hmmm,

I like the idea of rotating through my razors but I currently shave with one until it starts pulling or getting duller and then move on to the next one. I stay with one until its in need of some TLC not on a frequent rotation.

Then to the next, I of course have my favorites...as we all do.

I also am always on the hunt for my next purchase.

:gwh:

I have about 14 razors. Usually I vary from day to day which one I use. A lot depends on what mood I'm in.

When a razor is dull I put it a side until I have three or four that are ready to be honed.

I have five straight razors and rotate them on a Thursday to Monday schedule. I use a DE on Tuesday and Wednesday since I work on those days and I start rounds at the hospital at O-Dark-30. Full retirement in 17 months, God willing, will no doubtedly be an incentive to add two more razors and go to a seven day rotation.

Lewis

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Originally Posted by Lewis

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Hang in there!

I'm similar to Randy in that I am usually honing one razor or another and shave testing off the 8k to begin with and then further up the grit ladder. When that razor meets my approval it is on to the next.

If I'm not honing one in particular on a given day then I look at the pile of over 100 and pick out the one that calls to me.

I have six razors, and I use them more or less in a regular cycle. When a blade needs honing, I hone it and return it to its place in the cycle.

Wow! I wish I could say I had a rotation like any of you guys. I just have the one straightee that I use about every other day, and change the blade about every 5-6 shaves.

If anyone has any st8's they'd like to donate to my cause, I won't object. ;)

Cry, sniff, sniff. I only have one good razor, sniff, sniff, blubber, blubber. shave with the same one every day. Easy choice for me.

I'm buying razors so dam fast it's getting hard to go back to one of the old girls.

But seriously, ... I am serious.

I have two and so far I'm planning on just using the one till it needs honed and then using the other while the first gets sent out to be honed

Have 4 in my rotation! 2 Dubl Duck - Wonderedge and Goldedge + 2 Filarmonica - Medallon Taurino and Barbas Duras!
But i allways try to use my favourite at the moment..the Medallon Taurino 6/8:)
Many times i use two razors in the same shave..1st pass and another for the 2nd pass:)

I grab one out of the collection and use it. When it starts to pull a little I hone it. I have my favorites but use all that I have. No set order!

I have two that I like to use for a final pass every shave- the first blade I ever owned, a 4/8s quarter hollow Friedrich Baurmann and a NOS 6/8s full hollow JA Schmidt. Theres another NOS 6/8s full hollow I like, a Robert Buntenbach Tambour, but its not quite a favourite right now. I have 7 shave ready razors I intended it to be a weekly thing but I basically just grab what catches my fancy. Sometimes two or three razors a shave. Usually not though.

I have two razors a 5/8 Genco round point, and a 11/16 new electric square point. Since my Genco is getting honed I am only using my new electric, but when I get it back I am planning to rotate between the two.