Thread: Seven Sins of Wet Shaving

The seven sins of wet shaving has been circulating on YouTube so I thought it might be fun for us to post ours on SRP.

7 Sins

1. Greed - What is your most expensive and least expensive shaving product?
2. Wrath - What is that shaving product that you have a love/hate relationship with?
3. Gluttony - What is your most delicious shaving product.
4. Sloth - Something in your wet shaving den or routine that you tend to neglect.
5. Pride - What is it that you are most proud of in your shaving den?
6. Lust - What is it that you don't have but currently want really really bad?
7. Envy - Name a person that you envy or admire very much.

Here are my 7 sins of wet shaving.

1. Greed - What is your most expensive and least expensive shaving product?
Hart Steel 7/8 Square point ~$300 / Pfaltzgraff Lather Bowl under $5

2. Wrath - What is that shaving product that you have a love/hate relationship with?
Clubman After Shave

3. Gluttony - What is your most delicious shaving product.
DR Harris Marlborough

4. Sloth - Something in your wet shaving den or routine that you tend to neglect.
I tend to skip straightening a DE blade in the razor. I usually end up paying for this with a few weepers.

5. Pride - What is it that you are most proud of in your shaving den?
Gillette Superspeed and Old Spice Mug inherited from my grandfather.

6. Lust - What is it that you don't have but currently want really really bad?
Neil Miller Cordovan Strop and a Suehiro Gokumyo 20k

7. Envy - Name a person that you envy or admire very much.
Right now my honing skills is what needs work so I would have to say I envy Lynn and gssixgun the most.

My sins:

1. Greed - Most expensive: Penhaligon shaving soap. Least expensive: my trusty styptic pencil
2. Wrath - Avon Black Suede aftershave
3. Gluttony - Ogallala Bay Rum aftershave. My mouth waters at the thought...
4. Sloth - Drying my DE razor blades after a shave.
5. Pride - The fact that I have a shave den at all, if that makes any sense at all.
6. Lust - Fine Platinum aftershave
7. Envy - Anyone with a Bayrum aftershave I have not tried. I'm coming for you...

Nice thread.

Hmm, that's a new take on things

1. Greed -
Not sure aymore, but one of my Nakayama Maruka stones perhaps, cheapest are my styptic pencil at a dollar a piece

2. Wrath -
One of my Custom razors. It is truly challenging to dial in on the hones. Once there the shave is sublime

3. Gluttony -
No doubt, my Domenico Caraceni Shaving cream!

4. Sloth -
Keeping my hones in one place...

5. Pride -
Lots of the items really, but my very first EPBD perhaps.

6. Lust -
My next custom razor

7. Envy -
I met up with Bayamontate at a couple NY/NJ meetups.
Seeing him hone in spite of his physical challenges was very humbling and inspiring!

1. Greed;
My Escher would be the most expensive and cheapest is a Wal-mart oversize coffee mug.

2. Wrath;
I have a love hate relationship with my Genco extra hollow spike. Man that baby can sing one minute and cut you bloody the next.

3. Gluttony;
Probably my Dove En Vogue...I already had a million razors when I decided to buy a really fancy blade.

4. Sloth;
I never strop after a shave, excluding a few strokes on the linen to dry/clean the blade

5. Pride;
I am most proud of my hone collection.

6. Lust;
I really want to purchase a second J-nat, since my first is a large Koppa....imagine all that extra real estate mmmmmmm

7. Envy
Mastro Livi or anyone that forges custom razors. It looks like so much fun and their end work is awesome! I have dreams of building a forge eventually.

Here's my take on this...

1. Greed - What is your most expensive and least expensive shaving product?
Wade and Butcher, 9/8 Spike point, Celebrated, For Barbers Use, would be my most expensive. Least expensive, pack of DE blades.

2. Wrath - What is that shaving product that you have a love/hate relationship with?
Hate Double Duck Goldedge razor.

3. Gluttony - What is your most delicious shaving product.
Trufitt and Hill Trafalgar

4. Sloth - Something in your wet shaving den or routine that you tend to neglect.
My DE's razors, they don't really get used that much.

5. Pride - What is it that you are most proud of in your shaving den?
All the old restored straight razors being actively used again.

6. Lust - What is it that you don't have but currently want really really bad?
Wade and Butcher Egyptian and Ottoman Royal Windsor straight razor.

7. Envy - Name a person that you envy or admire very much.
Valery of The Gentleman's Den - would love to have his artistic talents, both in restoring and honing.

1. Greed - What is your most expensive and least expensive shaving product?
Hart 6/8 square point, least is styptic pen

2. Wrath - What is that shaving product that you have a love/hate relationship with?
DE razors

3. Gluttony - What is your most delicious shaving product.
AoS sandalwood

4. Sloth - Something in your wet shaving den or routine that you tend to neglect.
DE razors get no love

5. Pride - What is it that you are most proud of in your shaving den?
C-Mon "stainless"

6. Lust - What is it that you don't have but currently want really really bad?
Puma razor

7. Envy - Name a person that you envy or admire very much.
Glen for his honing abilities.

Very nice reflection topic.

7 Sins

1. Greed - What is your most expensive and least expensive shaving product?
-Robert Williams SRP LE, and de dorco blades.

2. Wrath - What is that shaving product that you have a love/hate relationship with?
-Barbasol Green. Love the menthol, hate the finicky lather water ratio.

3. Gluttony - What is your most delicious shaving product.
-TOB Sandalwood. Love the lather and scent.

4. Sloth - Something in your wet shaving den or routine that you tend to neglect.
-Mid shave stropping. In between stroppings rarely happen for me. Wet hands stay off clean leather.

5. Pride - What is it that you are most proud of in your shaving den?
-Kanoyama strop, still unknicked!

6. Lust - What is it that you don't have but currently want really really bad?
-A filarmonica bigger than 4/8ths. Been my second longest search and still eludes me despite numerous failed bid attempts.

7. Envy - Name a person(s) that you envy or admire very much.
-Maestro Livi, Glen, Lynn, Bruno, Val, Phil Sanchez, and all the other craftsmen who have inspired me to pursue this craft beyond a purely end user perspective.

Merry Christmas all, and thanks for a gentlemanly forum if ever there was one.