Thread: How did you do it prior to straights?

i started with the sensor excel and had bad shaves.. then when the mach3 was released i started getting good shaves.. i've always used a brush and never had a problem.. gillette sent me a fusion when it came out and i hated it.. mainly due to the blades being so close and clogging up.. i'd be fine with a mach3 if i had to.. but now i'm shaving with an artist club and it's as good as good is going to get.. i don't see them ever being able to improve on it.

First shaves were with an ancient electric foil razor then on to disposable twin blades and canned foam.
Bearded from the time I left school.
Someone brought me a Mach3 as a joke and it sat in the cupboard for years.
Haircuts done with clippers and no comb, beard normally about a No.2 or 3.

Last year I changed to a goatee and out came the Mach3 again.

Now I've seen the light the lather is built with care and the blades only number 1 at a time.

I spent a couple of years using disposables and electrics, then moved to a gillette multi bladed thing when I was about 18 I think, then bought a wilkinson sword DE and used that right through till i discovered straightness in shaving 2 years or so ago, then I went shavette and now straight

Geek

I had a variety of multi blade junk and an electric.

And I also had a sore face a lot of the time..!

Generally used the 2nd cheapest twin blade disposables I could find with lubricating strip

and canned foam... until I discovered I could use hand soap instead.

Used the disposable basically untill I couldn't clean it or the strip had crumbled away.

It was only a few short steps from hand soap...
to $2 shaving stick and $2 brush (still used happily)...
to DE (for 2 or 3 weeks)...
to the straight razor (with shaving cream / soap)!

All the best,
Michael

Started with DE as a young man. Moved to electric for a while 1982-1991. Went back to wet shaving in 1991 but still maintained an electric due to the nature of my job.
Keep an electric in the car and continue to use multi-blade when traveling on business.

Started with DE. Sticked with it + yellow Bics and cheap disposables until straight razors. Years ago i shaved few years with electric but as that buzzing electric device broke down i didn't mind to buy another. Never had these Gillette multiblades, as i always saw them too expensive and nothing that DE or cheap disposables couldn't do as well. I still use DE occasionally, at least when traveling.

I used a Mach III for a long time, then I switched to the cheaper disposable three blade razors. I switched to straights as a means to not be reliant on getting razors from the store to be able to shave.
I continue to use straights because of the quality of the shave, and they are just plain fun!

I used TracII exclusively from my first shave until I began using straights - about 15 years. They began getting hard to find, and I ended up with some knock-offs on my last bulk purchase which drove me to straights

There were a handful of occasions where I used Bic disposables in a pinch, and also a one-shave experiment with a DE and a shavette fairly recently after being introduced to straight razors

I've been using whatever was the latest and "greatest" from Gillette.
Don't remember all the names anymore, the last one was a fusion with a battery in it.
Tried electric many years ago, but that did not get close at all.
The Main reason I picked up straight razor shaving was simply that shaving my head really ate blades. Got sick of running out of fresh blades, and ending up with a sore scalp and a lousy shave.
The straights fixed that, and also my Feather artist club.