Thread: My college set up.

Your set sounds awesome. Some advice for you from someone who shaved with straight razors in college dorms and only graduated two years ago. Let your roommates be awed the first time the see you shave with the straight, however, make it clear that they are not to touch it (or the edge)...all you need is for someone to move their thumb perpendicular to the cutting edge to see if it's sharp and <snap> they just ruined your edge on a microscopic level. So just keep it in a dorm in your room. Not sure if you have a bathroom in your suite or not as a freshman, but if you ever do - do not leave anything in there that will rust (dorm bathrooms are constantly steamy). If your roommates are your friends, or will be, or what have you, people want to try things, and touch things, etc. Make sure the things that should not be touched like the straight are put away with your personal stuff...it might be innocent curiosity, but the wrong movement on the wrong equipment can be real bad. Best of luck in college, enjoy it - it is the best time of your life.

Sounds like a great setup to me. Just make sure that you take a sufficient number of your favorite de razor blades for the EJ you will be taking with you.

+1 on Holli's advice. Take a second straight. That way you can rotate their use and lengthen the time between necessary resharpening--either with diamond paste or a barber's hone.

And ++1 on TSviper86's advice. Make it crystal clear to your roommates, etc. that they are not to touch or make use of any your shaving equipment in any way, shape or form, without your permission.