Thread: Too tentative?

Originally Posted by Fido

I wholly understand that many will love the satisfaction of choosing a straight razor they are comfortable with and the craft of honing and stropping. But that is not the attraction for me. I really don't want to be bothered with it. I'll strop, but don't get any satisfaction from it rather than being pleased I don't mess it up.

This is how I felt when I first picked up a straight. I thought people who restored razors were old fudidudies who had nothing better to do with their days while waiting to meet god face to face. That changed when I bought a cheap Bengall and decided it needed a bit of a polish. Now I'm happy when I'm ready to reassemble a razor which I have hand polished all the parts. Now I'm one of the old fudidudies.

I used to think that people who collected razors were incurable horders who would be just as likely to have a collection of old news papers, just because they might come in handy one day. Now I have a healthy collection and a wide rotation of razors, strops, brushes and hones.

I used to be just the person you described. Just here for the shave. Be careful, it creeps up on you. Before you now it you will have a collection of strops, a box full of hones, five or six brushes, a draw full of restoration projects that you will get to eventually and about twenty different razors to choose from for your daily shave.