Thread: We're all sissies

Here's the proof. The bottom blade was used by my grandfather, the top is a gift from my wife (shocking as it is, she saw it at an antique market and picked it up for me, was a bit insulted when I started laughing)

For all our 8k, 12k, Belgian, Escher, CrO2 - these were probably honed on a 220 stone

Yeah, men were real men then

Cheers
Ivo

Originally Posted by izlat

Yeah, men were real men then

And their aftershave was pure grain alcohol mixed with gunpowder... which they ignited after splashing on their faces!

Originally Posted by Scrapyard Ape

And their aftershave was pure grain alcohol mixed with gunpowder... which they ignited after splashing on their faces!

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And they wiped their butts with oak leaves. I'll pass on that too.

Originally Posted by RichZ

And they wiped their butts with oak leaves. I'll pass on that too.

I don't think they did that, Rich...

Wiping their butts, I mean

Oak Leaves!?! Pffftt.... why my grandpappy used PINECONES! And if none were available, he'd fashion a "scraper" by knapping a large nodule of flint! And he was grateful for the chance to wipe himself with it!

Originally Posted by izlat

I don't think they did that, Rich...

Wiping their butts, I mean

Actually they used their hands.

Seriously though you guys lose sight of the fact, as I'm always reminding you all that in the old days when everyone used a straight most people didn't frett about honing and stropping and oiling their blades and english creams and all those sissy things we do now and they just shaved. If they used lukewarm water and hand soap that was their prep and if the razor wasn't so keen, well thats how it was. Why do you think Mr Gillette had such an easy time pushing people over to the dark side.

My dad is 92 and when I told him I was using a straight he basically laughed his ass off. He told me when he was a kid he watched his dad shave with a straight and he could hear the curses coming from the bathroom and he saw all the cuts on his face every day and he remembers him trying to hone the one razor he had. He swore he would never use a straight and his generation was the one that turned away from them.

Like they say everything old is new again. So we've made this drugery a hobby for ourselves and we look forward to it every day. Just like the guy who parks his Mercedes every saturday to drive his vintage model A Ford and loves it.

It all makes you believe in miracles!