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09-07-2012, 03:48 AM #11
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Thanked: 220Yes, but in the area where I reside, barbers only seem to cut hair. I feel it varies from region to region. I do believe you are one of the few & last ''original'' barbers out there that know your way around a straight, it's just too bad there isn't more people like you around here. It's even getting hard just to find a barber shop these days, it's all salons now.
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09-07-2012, 03:51 AM #12
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Thanked: 334Too true, Firefighter2, too true. (Say that 3xs fast!)
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09-07-2012, 04:13 AM #13
Really wish there was a local barber here that still practiced the shave. would love to receive one from a pro. ill have to find one next time im in a big city.
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09-07-2012, 04:39 AM #14
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09-07-2012, 04:46 AM #15
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09-07-2012, 12:27 PM #16
Had the back of my neck done once when i was a little kid. My aunt has a salon, so for my whole life she has been the only one i have trusted for my hair, but once when she was out of town my mother took me to the old timer in the town i lived in, i was about 12 and i remember seeing him take out the blade and when he walked toward me i remember thinking "o man that doesnt look nice" hahah. he just used it to touch up my neck line in the back. so ill have to see if he is still around next time i go home. This was about 10 years ago and he was in his 70's at the time (and didnt look too good on top of that)
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09-07-2012, 04:01 PM #17
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09-07-2012, 04:06 PM #18
You pretty much have to figure that any "master barber" who learned straight use the old fashioned way had to have done that probably in the 1960s and prior. So any such guy would be in his 70s or 80s by now. Most of those are retired or should be so if you know one who is in good physical shape and still works you have a Platinum Mine there. Anyone else is just someone who pretty much picked it up on his own using his customers to practice on.
No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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09-07-2012, 09:01 PM #19
i find a higher population of "real barbers" when near large military installations. they're not real keen on facial hair though...so watch out.
i never fail to instruct a barber to _leave_ my sideburns where i put them...i hear my clippers calling me.
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09-16-2012, 02:10 PM #20
Well me and Mr. Young finally got together and he pulled out a box of hones and mine eyes were immediately drawn to the few natural stones.
He sorted and picked and selected four for me to choose from. I reached for the "made in belgium" yellow coticule on a slate backer. Then he doesn't want any money.
So i gave him a tenspot for his time--the rock was a gift. He was happy, and my edges are now much better, but i've yet to acquire a good strop.Last edited by WadePatton; 09-16-2012 at 02:12 PM.