Thread: What dirty little secret/interesting tidbit do you know about shaving/razors?

Originally Posted by WW243

....hey and no fair answering two different Bills in one post.

Fixed it!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Thanks, Bill #1. I suppose you missed the thread on it? http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...roft-sons.html Nope! You were there!


Gee, Bill #2, I don't know about that either. I suspect a lonely camp there!

Uou Can call me William,Or use my Russian Name, Vasily

And I'll go by my gmail name: woodleywillie, or Sir Wimply Lowborn---your choice.

Originally Posted by rolodave

If you click Ed's link it goes to a shot of a razor then skips to a post by Bruno.

Rather odd.

did it 3 times

the thread is about different steels used for razors etc, so maybe the shot of a razor is an earlier post and Bruno's is more recent.

I have learned that the devil is in the details.
90% of what we do it test and coax out the best of any given razor
Practice makes perfect. Hands on mentoring greatly improves your skills.
Once you unlearn your incorrect muscle memory.
Wet shaving is an art, and you simply cannot rush it.
If you want to shave it the shower while washing your hair and brushing your teeth go back to a disposable. This is a fact.
This is not Betty Crocker throw it in and out pops a cake. This is order of operation based, fact finding testing angle changing to each razor. One size doesnt fit all. And failure to understand all operation will increase the % of fails.
Dont shave angry

Apologies in advance,
I was getting great shaves with no problems and no effort from a Gillette fusion, really.

Oh, I was getting good shaves with those. Crazy ingrown hairs and irritation to boot! I finally quit and went to clippers like old Don Johnson til I found straights.

Mwf is gold

Angry shaving can be suicide

Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003

I have learned that the devil is in the details.
90% of what we do it test and coax out the best of any given razor
Practice makes perfect. Hands on mentoring greatly improves your skills.
Once you unlearn your incorrect muscle memory.
Wet shaving is an art, and you simply cannot rush it.
If you want to shave it the shower while washing your hair and brushing your teeth go back to a disposable. This is a fact.
This is not Betty Crocker throw it in and out pops a cake. This is order of operation based, fact finding testing angle changing to each razor. One size doesnt fit all. And failure to understand all operation will increase the % of fails.
Dont shave angry

Well, I guess I have to retell this hot investigative story about Monserrat and the Filarmonica Razors. This is the straight dope.

You all know the founder of Filarmonica was that Monserrat guy. When he was a kid he was a real puny guy and in school they used beat him up all the time and steal his lunch money and make fun of him. Even the girls used to beat him up. One day his father got tired of picking him up from school all messed up with his clothes all torn and so he took him down to the local Dojo where he practiced day and night with Sensei Quack for years until he become a highly competent Martial Arts dude. Yea then he go around and find all those guys who taunted him as a kid and he beat them up and extort money from them. He finally got so much money he didn’t know what to do with it so his Pa told him he should start some business.

You all know why it be called Filarmonica right? Yea he be a confused dude and have a girlfriend named Monica and a Boyfriend name Felipe so he just combined the two.

One day he be watching some old movie called Zorro and he thought it would be neat to make knives and swords. The problem was that steel they use in Spain be poor quality stuff so while he was visiting the National Museum in Madrid he grabbed a few old Swords by putting them down his pants which by the way caused a slight mishap with parts of his anatomy and he never be the same ever again. Yea, he walk funny and talk with that squeaky voice.

He melt down those old swords and he learn the secret of making good steel.(See this be the what you call it the tie down with the first part of this story. And you all think we be uneducated hillbillies eh?) About that time this General Franco dude told him he wanted him to make razors for the Spanish army but he didn’t want to make no puny razors. He wanted to be able to dress up as his hero Zorro and go out at night with his sword and terrorize the countryside. Instead he wound up in prison making License Plates. At night he read books and learn all about forging steel blades and some of those terrorist dudes from the East teach him about that fancy Damascus Steel and how to make it.

When he get out of prison he agreed to make razors for the Spanish Army and after the war General Franco give him all kinds of medals for his steel making and he start making razors for the public. His skills were widely known by then and there be no one else in Spain makin good razors so they had to import razors from other places and when folks saw the quality of these Filarmonica razors why they just couldn’t get enough of them. They tried to keep the quality a secret but that was impossible and Monserrat wouldnt increase his production cause he had a real small operation mostly family run and prices started to climb. He became richer and richer.

When he got older he became touched in the head and one day he dressed up as that Zorro fella and with his black costume and black horse and big sword went out to terrorize folks. Now it be known while he was a master with steel he didn’t know squat about horses and that horse had enough of being run into the ground and being given bad grub so one day he threw him and he landed right on his sword impaling himself and then the horse stomped all over him with that Z pattern. With him dead the company lost direction and finally folded.