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Thread: Is a straight razor for me??
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04-13-2012, 11:27 AM #12
I started off with a shavette and used 1/2 of a DE blade. You will eventually want to go to a real straight. Whippeddog.com or the classifieds are great places. However, the shavette needs no maintenance like honing or stropping. After a short time you will know what "sharp" is. The Shavette also works well as a travel straight. Now to the bad part, you will want to go to the real thing eventually. Also, I would avoid buying the packages with a lot of DE blades. You will need to experiment with different brands - they all work differently for each razor and each face. I would suggest looking at bullgooseshaving or straightrazordesigns and get a blade sampler pack. That way you won't have 115 blades stockpiled that don't agree with you.
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