• Obie's Conversations

    by Published on 02-26-2012 03:15 AM
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    Liam
    Liam
    Obie
    Obie
    I discovered Liam Finnegan through his YouTube shaving videos. There was Liam stropping a razor. There he was honing a blade. You could see the master at work with sure hands and an air of confidence from long years of dedicated barbering and straight razor shaving. If I had the tiniest nugget of Liam’s experience with the straight razor, the strop and the hone, I’d pin a medal to my chest and proclaim, “I have arrived.”

    Obie: Currently you are the head barber and patriarch of the renowned Waldorf Barbershop and Shaving Saloon in Dublin, Ireland. You have been at this since you were ...
    by Published on 02-01-2012 05:00 AM
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    Mark
    Mark
    Obie
    Obie
    Mantic59 is a legend in wet shaving through a series of informative and entertaining videos. Mantic59 is the signature for Mark Herro, a gentleman wet shaver who has inspired thousands into reaching beyond the electric shaver or the plastic cartridge razor to discover new worlds. His videos cover almost every aspect of traditional shaving, from making the proper lather to shaving with the double edge safety razor. Nothing on the straight razor yet, but there’s always hope.

    Obie: Didn’t I read somewhere on Straight Razor Place that you contemplated a fling with the straight razor? What happened to that?
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    by Published on 11-01-2011 04:00 AM
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    Robert
    Robert
    Obie
    Obie
    A custom razor by Robert Williams is like that dazzling Lamborghini that circles the neighborhood like a sweet recurring dream, or that elegant Rolls Royce once sported by the stars from the golden age of Hollywood. The custom razor world has an impressive, although small, group of masters who create magnificent razors. Robert Williams is one of them with a corner seat all his own. He is an articulate and an unassuming craftsman always ready for an in-depth conversation about his art: the custom straight razor. ...
    by Published on 10-01-2011 04:00 AM
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    Joe and Carrie
    Joe and Carrie
    Obie
    Obie
    Once upon a time, for gentlemen and pedestrians alike, shaving with the straight razor was the way to go. The only way to go. Today, much to our disappointment, straight razor shaving has a relatively small following. So it is rare to find the straight razor a family affair, right in our own neighborhood, too. It is so with Joe and Carrie, SRP moderators and vendors, and son Joe Jr.
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    by Published on 09-01-2011 04:01 AM
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    Chris
    Chris
    Obie
    Obie
    In the colorful world of traditional shaving the name Moss comes in quotes. That is Dr. Christopher Moss, the creator of the noted Moss Scuttle, as well as the author of an excellent little book, The Art of the Straight Razor Shave. Dr. Moss, who was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1958, and trained in London, moved to Canada, in 1985. He works as a rural doctor in the town with the exotic name Tatamagouche.
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